AMBDA FE/HE
AMBDA FE/HE stands for the Associate Membership of the BDA Further Education/Higher Education.
AMBDA FE/HE will only be awarded to tutors, lecturers and learning support staff who:
- have successfully completed a BDA accredited course; and
- have a minimum of two years' teaching/support experience in an institution of further or higher education.
To request an application pack or for more information please email: Debbie Rautenbach at accreditation@bdadyslexia.org.uk
Candidates must apply for AMBDA FE/HE within five years of successful completion of a BDA accredited course. Any candidate who completed a course more than five years ago should contact the BDA office for further advice. Please click here to email Debbie Rautenbach at accreditation@bdadyslexia.org.uk.
An AMBDA FE/HE accredited course must enable candidates to achieve those competencies listed under Approved Teacher Status and the following outcomes at postgraduate level:
Core Elements
Understand and critically appraise: current research in specific learning difficulties / dyslexia and its relevance for teaching learning; theory and practice of psychometrics; relationship of that theory to the assessment of cognitive abilities and difficulties of pupils and students.
Competently prepare and disseminate technical reports to specialist teachers and other professionals and non-professionals concerned with the support of students including the provision of advice and recommendations to meet specific purposes.
Critically appraise and reflect on a range of learning strategies and structured, sequential, multi-sensory language and numeracy teaching programmes.
Demonstrate an understanding of the implications of social, emotional, behavioural and community issues for dyslexic learners and their families. It is important that these issues are considered across the full age range so that current difficulties can be understood in relation either to their possible derivation or future implications.
Understand and critically appraise the role of ICT in the screening for and teaching of specific learning difficulties / dyslexia; the range of technical aids for teaching, writing and numeracy; support and access to learning.
Awareness of the implications of and issues arising from the 14 to 19 curriculum.
