Schools for learning difficulties

Are you looking for a school that specialises in learning difficulties (including dyslexia/SPLD)? Here you can find and compare schools that meet your child's needs.

Please note that for entry in our guidebook and website we ask schools to nominate one particular area of speciality to provide extra guidance for our readers. Those schools that have chosen earning difficulties are featured on this page.

We do appreciate, however, that many schools provide services that span two or more of our categories, so please do check out our other featured schools in the following categories to give you a full picture of the schools available:

a) social interaction difficulties (autism, ASD & ASP)

b) emotional, behavioural and/or social difficulties (EBSD)

c) sensory or physical impairment

You will find all special schools with a speciality in earning difficulties at the bottom of this page, with abbreviations denoting the conditions each school caters for (check our glossary for definitions).

Click on a school's name for information about that school. Schools at the top of the listings in highlighted panels feature full profile information including social media, website and email links and optional video.

You can narrow down your search by using the search boxes below to select schools by age, gender, and those that offer residential facilities.

You can also search by region and our postcode search facility allows you to find and compare schools nearest to you by searching a radius of two to 100 miles.

You can gain further advice from a selection of articles on this website about choosing a special needs school, including articles with a particular focus on dyslexia, learning difficulties and speech and language difficulties.

These search results are from www.specialneedsguide.co.uk, the online edition of John Catt's Which School? for Special Needs guidebook, now in its 28th edition.

Abingdon House School & College

North-West London, London

Co-Educational

Day

AttDD

ADHD

ASD

ASP

AUT

DYSL

DYSP

Moor House School & College

Schools for learning difficulties

North-West London, London

Corbridge, Northumberland

Yeovil, Somerset

Rhyl, Denbighshire

Silsoe, Bedfordshire

Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire

Ottershaw, Surrey

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Farnham, Surrey

Belper, Derbyshire

Dolgellau, Gwynedd

Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire

Caldwell, Derbyshire

Bromyard, Herefordshire

Ventnor, Isle of Wight

Cranleigh, Surrey

Brighton, East Sussex

South-West London, London

Feltham, Middlesex

Rochester, Kent

Meare, Somerset

Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan

Salisbury, Wiltshire

Birmingham, West Midlands

Telford, Shropshire

Norwich, Norfolk

Bristol

Bolton, Greater Manchester

Liverpool, Merseyside

North-West London, London

New Malden, Surrey

Manchester, Greater Manchester

Bristol

Bicester, Oxfordshire

Colerne, Wiltshire

Glengarnock, North Ayrshire

Glengarnock, North Ayrshire

Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Ipswich, Suffolk

South-West London, London

Lyndhurst, Hampshire

Clunderwen, Pembrokeshire

Swansea, Glamorgan

Colchester, Essex

Glasgow

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

South-West London, London

Minehead, Somerset

South-West London, London

Sheffield, South Yorkshire

Rye, East Sussex

Stourbridge, West Midlands

Ramsgate, Kent

Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Holsworthy, Devon

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

Bideford, Devon

Dorchester, Dorset

North-West London, London

Woking, Surrey

Salford, Greater Manchester

London

Spilsby, Lincolnshire

Aberdeen

Liverpool, Merseyside

Wingrave, Buckinghamshire

Exeter, Devon

Lichfield, Staffordshire

Dorking, Surrey

Reigate, Surrey

Alloa, Clackmannanshire