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

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

South-East London, London

Corbridge, Northumberland

Yeovil, Somerset

Rhyl, Denbighshire

Kidderminster, Worcestershire

Oswestry, Shropshire

Gillingham, Dorset

Moreton, Dorset

Lincoln, Lincolnshire

Portsmouth, Hampshire

Ottershaw, Surrey

Doncaster, South Yorkshire

Rochester, Kent

Belper, Derbyshire

Dolgellau, Gwynedd

Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire

Northampton, Northamptonshire

Caldwell, Derbyshire

Bromyard, Herefordshire

Ventnor, Isle of Wight

Cranleigh, Surrey

Brighton, East Sussex

Alderley Edge, Cheshire

Feltham, Middlesex

Hindhead, Surrey

Meare, Somerset

Shrewsbury, Shropshire

Bolton, Greater Manchester

Normanton, West Yorkshire

Frinton-on-Sea, Essex

Torquay, Devon

Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire

Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan

Salford, Greater Manchester

Salisbury, Wiltshire

Weymouth, Dorset

Birmingham, West Midlands

Birmingham, West Midlands

Birmingham, West Midlands

Telford, Shropshire

Minehead, Somerset

Norwich, Norfolk

Bristol

Cranbrook, Kent

Birchwood, Warrington

Bolton, Greater Manchester

Liverpool, Merseyside

Manchester, Greater Manchester

Bristol

Orpington, Kent

Bicester, Oxfordshire

South-West London, London

Glengarnock, North Ayrshire

Glengarnock, North Ayrshire

Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Wakefield, West Yorkshire

Ipswich, Suffolk

South-West London, London

Wigan, Greater Manchester

Congleton, Cheshire

Sandon, Essex

Lyndhurst, Hampshire

Clunderwen, Pembrokeshire

Swansea, Glamorgan

Mansfield, Nottinghamshire

Colchester, Essex

Glasgow

Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire

Silsoe, Bedfordshire

Congleton, Cheshire

Grantham, Lincolnshire

Dilton Marsh, Wiltshire

South-West London, London