Learning support
Special needs tutoring by tutors who specialise in it
Live one-to-one online classes for neurodivergent children aged 5–18 — ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dyspraxia, slow processing, anxiety. Taught by tutors with specific special educational needs experience, not general tutors improvising. No diagnosis needed, no waiting list.
Why this works
Most support plans fail on the same thing: there is one adult and thirty children
A child can have an excellent IEP, 504 plan or EHCP and still spend most of the week not getting what is written in it — not because anyone is ignoring it, but because differentiating thirty ways at once is not something a human being can do.
Private one-to-one tutoring is not better teaching than a good teacher gives. It is the same teaching, with the ratio fixed. Everything that normally has to be planned in advance — pace, repetition, breaks, the route into a topic — can simply happen, because there is one child in the room and the tutor can watch their face.
Who we teach
Children we are often asked about
This is not a checklist to qualify against. If your child is not described here, tell us anyway.
ADHD and attention difficulties
Inattentive, hyperactive or combined presentations, ADD, and children who simply cannot get started. Short stretches, movement breaks, and help with executive function.
ADHD tutoring →Autistic children
Predictable structure, the same tutor every week, special interests used rather than steered around, and no demand for eye contact or camera.
Autism tutoring →Dyslexia and reading difficulty
Decoding, spelling, reading fluency and comprehension, at a pace that allows repetition without embarrassment — and with nobody waiting for your child to finish reading aloud.
Dyscalculia and maths anxiety
Number sense built from the bottom up rather than drilled, and the freedom to go back several years in a topic without an audience noticing.
Dyspraxia and handwriting
Typing instead of writing where it helps, verbal answers where the motor demand is the obstacle, and work judged on its content rather than its neatness.
Slow or atypical processing
Auditory processing difficulties, slow processing speed, and children who know the answer but not within the three seconds a classroom allows. Here, the pause costs nothing.
Anxiety and school refusal
Children who are anxious about school, not attending, or have stopped speaking in class. A familiar room and one known adult is a far lower bar than a classroom door.
Twice exceptional (2e)
Gifted and neurodivergent at once, where the ability hides the difficulty and the difficulty hides the ability — so school sees an average child and nobody stretches or supports them.
Home educated children
For families educating at home, or whose child is out of school for now, a regular one-to-one class can be the fixed point the week is built around.
How classes adapt
What changes, in practice
Every class
- The same tutor, every single week
- A repeating slot at the same day and time
- Breaks whenever they are needed
- Camera off, chat, or typing — all fine
- Written notes to you afterwards
Never
- Being told off for how a brain works
- Reading aloud in front of other children
- A fixed pace set by a group
- Pressure to mask or perform
- A subscription you have to escape
Being straight with you
What we are, and what we are not
Novinity is a tutoring service. We are not clinicians, therapists or a special school. We do not assess or diagnose, we do not provide speech and language therapy, occupational therapy or behavioural intervention, and we cannot replace statutory support your child is entitled to.
What we are is specialists. Learning-support students are taught by tutors with specific experience of special educational needs, not by whoever is free — that is the single thing we are built around. Each tutor's qualifications and experience are listed on their own profile, so you can check what is behind the person teaching your child rather than taking a marketing claim on trust. Browse the tutors.
If we are not the right support for your child, the tutor will tell you after the free class. A parent who trusts us and does not buy is worth more to us than one who buys once.
Common questions
Special needs tutoring, answered
Do we need a diagnosis, an IEP, a 504 plan or an EHCP?
None of them. You can book without any paperwork at all. If you do have a report, an IEP, a 504 plan or an EHCP and you want to share it, the tutor will read it — but nothing is gated behind it.
Are your tutors qualified special education teachers?
Learning-support students are taught by tutors with specific special educational needs experience — specialising in this is what Novinity is built around, not a sideline. Each tutor's qualifications are listed on their own profile so you can check before you book, and every tutor is identity-checked, background-checked, interviewed by a subject specialist and observed teaching a trial class.
What if we try it and it does not work?
The first class is free and nothing auto-renews. If the tutor thinks we are the wrong fit, they will say so rather than sell you a pack. If a paid pack turns out to be wrong, sessions stay valid for months and you are never locked into a subscription. See pricing.
Can my child have the same tutor every week?
Yes. You can book a repeating weekly or twice-weekly slot with the same tutor at the same time, which matters more for neurodivergent children than almost anything else we offer.
My child is bright but struggling. Is tutoring still right?
Often yes. Twice-exceptional children — gifted and neurodivergent at once — are frequently missed entirely, because the ability masks the difficulty and the difficulty masks the ability. One-to-one is where that combination is easiest to see and teach to.
Start with a free class
One full 50-minute class, no card needed, and an honest opinion afterwards — including if we are not the right fit.