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$100 per hour
Services
- Online help
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About
Struggling with assignments, study, or keeping up with school or university? Create Skills for Life offers a different approach — teaching you how to learn, not just what to learn.
This is not traditional tutoring. It’s a personalised educational therapy approach designed to strengthen the underlying skills behind learning, including comprehension, processing, memory, and subject-specific language. Whether you’re in high school or university, you’ll develop practical strategies that make study more efficient, structured, and far less overwhelming.
Students are guided to:
1.Organise and manage study plans and semester timelines
2.Reverse engineer assignments to understand exactly what’s required
3.Work with the language of each subject to improve clarity and performance
4.Use nonlinear study techniques for deeper understanding and retention
5.Build strong reading and comprehension skills
6.Apply scaffolding methods to break down complex tasks
7.Improve planning, time management, and exam preparation
Each program is tailored following an initial assessment, ensuring support matches individual strengths and challenges. Techniques may include structured literacy approaches (such as synthetic phonics), cognitive skill development, and sensory-based strategies — particularly beneficial for students with ADHD, dyslexia, ASD, or those who simply learn differently.
This is a skills-based intervention designed to create long-term independence, confidence, and academic success — not just short-term results.
Learn differently. Study smarter. Build skills for life.
Achievements
- written my own synthetic phonics approach to teach people with dyslexia to read
Education
High school teacher (30 years), Educational therapist (12 years), Create skills for life synthetic phonics approach designer
Interests
- I am an artist, I make paper, stitch books, illustrate the books. I enjoy mountain climbing, camping and travel.
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Availability
Around Mount Gravatt
Monday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Wednesday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Thursday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday
7:00 AM - 7:00 PM