The Benefits of One-to-One Tutoring

Last updated: May 2026 What is One-to-One Tutoring? One-to-one tutoring (or one-on-one) involves a student interacting with and learning from an educator, teacher, or tutor individually, who delivers personalised tuition tailored specifically to the student’s learning goals and needs. Tutoring is a valuable educational tool. It both supplements children’s school learning and enables them to…

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Hope Tutoring’s Guide to the Primary School Years

Last Updated: September 2026 Primary school is when children build the core literacy, numeracy, communication and learning skills they will use throughout their education. From Prep through Year 6, children gradually move from early reading, writing and number skills towards more independent writing, mathematical reasoning, research, problem-solving and preparation for high school. Exactly what children…

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Fun Home Learning Games for Children with Autism

by Brisbane Tutor Justin Clark Last Updated: October 2026 Home learning games can be a fun way for autistic children to practise skills such as counting, recognising letters and numbers, following instructions, taking turns and solving problems. The best games are not necessarily the most complicated ones. Simple activities can often be adapted to suit…

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Learning with All the Senses – The Multi-Sensory Learning Theory

by Justin Clark, Learning Difficulties Tutor in Brisbane. Last Updated: October 2026 Multi-sensory learning is an approach that uses more than one sense during a learning activity. Instead of relying only on listening, reading or looking at information, a child might see, hear, say, touch, write or physically interact with the concept they are learning. For…

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The Power Of Positive Affirmations

by Brisbane Tutor Justin Clark Since 2020, with a pandemic and the introduction of lockdowns, we’ve faced many big life changes and new routines that have had to be adapted to quickly. However, something incredibly positive that has come out of it is the increased spotlight on self-care, particularly of our minds. There are countless…

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Helpful Resources for Children with ADHD, Autism and Other Learning Difficulties

Author Justin Clark, Learning Difficulties Tutor in Brisbane. Children with learning difficulties and disabilities, like ADHD, Autism, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, and auditory, sensory, and visual processing disorders, often find it difficult to concentrate in class. They have to expend extra energy on activities neurotypical children are able to carry out without thinking, like sitting still, tuning out…

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The Seven Different Learning Styles

by Brisbane Learning Difficulties Tutor Justin Clark As is the case with how we understand most things these days, it is believed that people fall somewhere on the spectrum of preference for each of these styles. As an educator, to have the best chances of success with a student, it is important to not only…

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How to Spot Learning Difficulties in your Child

by Brisbane Learning Difficulties Tutor Justin Clark Learning difficulties present in a multitude of different ways and vary wildly from child to child.  There are a plethora of different signs that a child with learning difficulties can display, which change with factors such as age, gender, personality type and, naturally, the type of learning difficulty.…

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What Are The Advantages Of A Private Tutor?

There are so many benefits of a private tutor beyond just the one-on-one interaction and more focussed learning opportunities.  Having just one student means the work can be tailored specifically to that child. It also means that we can take breaks whenever it is best suited to. If a child becomes too tired, we can…

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Tutoring Help During the Coronavirus Outbreak

Having had school closures and loss of teaching time and other ways that COVID-19 has impacted on our lives we understand these are difficult and uncertain times for our children and their learning. However, Hope Tutoring can help families maintain normality and minimise upheaval in their children’s lives. We can help support parents by offering…

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What is Dyslexia?

by Brisbane Learning Difficulties Tutor Justin Clark There is a great deal of confusion as to what is dyslexia, this the best definition in my opinion. Dyslexia is a complex learning difficulty that varies widely from one individual to another.  However, all students with dyslexia will experience some difficulties with reading, spelling and writing.  Some…

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How to Help a Child with Dyslexia to Read

by Brisbane Learning Difficulties Tutor Justin Clark Helping Dyslexic Children to Read One of the most apparent symptoms for students with dyslexia is the avoidance of reading.  This is because, for these students, reading is frustrating because of their inability to decode words and make meaning from what is being read.  Therefore, the reading process itself…

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