About Us — Making it Happen!

 

Overcoming Barriers (previously know as Cirencester Dyslexia Centre) has an established and proven record of identifying and meeting the needs of primary-aged children with barriers to learning and life skills through Assessments and Teaching.

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Its teacher, Marion Craven, is a fully qualified, experienced specialist (dyslexia) teacher, who herself is dyslexic and dyspraxic, and has a family with additional needs. She has:

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• a BEd in primary education (1990)

• a Postgraduate Diploma in Dyslexia and Literacy through Dyslexia Action, formally known as Dyslexia Institute (2005)

• a Masters with distinction in SEN and Inclusion (2010)

• a SENCo Award (2011).

 

She has experience of:

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• 25+ years working as a primary school teacher / specialist teacher / SENCo

• training teachers and teaching assistants within schools and on a postgraduate dyslexia course

• a two-year in-school phonic project with the British Dyslexia Association.

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She is an ‘active’ Associate Member of the British Dyslexia Association (AMBDA) —demonstrating up-to-date knowledge in teaching and assessment. She has an online DBS, professional insurances and membership of the Dyspraxia Foundation.

 

Marion uses an individual approach to teach a range of needs and has an excellent and proven track record.