Highly-skilled, specialist teaching for your child’s unique profile

We can’t expect schools to cater to every variation in learning
For children with cognition divergent from the norm, it can seem like school success is just impossible. Memorising dates, organising essays, the stress of timed exams and unpacking success criteria are more difficult for those with processing, memory or attention differences.
Children who are bright and have additional needs often fall beneath the threshold for learning support.
If strengths in their profile are supporting underlying weaknesses, performance scores may be average, even above average. This can be so frustrating, especially if it’s clear that with the right support, your child would absolutely shine.
If your child becomes frustrated with the gap between their performance and what they know they can do, they can start to believe they’re ‘rubbish at school’. This affects self esteem, and young people need to feel good about themselves in order to be resilient. Resilience affects how we navigate social and emotional challenges too, especially in adolescence.
How I can help
I will look at how your child learns
I have 20 years experience assessing and teaching students who learn differently. My skills are unique because I am both an academic and a practitioner - a rare combination.
I am an excellent assessor of what is practically holding your child back: the habits, attitudes and strategies that are not working and what must replace them. While I can formally diagnose specific learning issues, my dynamic assessment - watching a pupil during learning - can unpick the source of the difficulty, find the right way for the child to approach the task, and help to release ineffective compensatory strategies. I teach kids their own brain hacks, the fastest or best way to approach what they haven’t managed before. Using dynamic assessment, research based interventions and highly personalised learning strategies, I help young people to master skills which underpin learning but are beyond the remit of school support.
I have over 20 years experience and advanced academic training in neurodiversity and cognition, including: ASD * Dyslexia * Dyspraxia * ADHD * Executive Functioning * Working Memory * Verbal Memory * Verbal Processing * Expressive & Receptive Language * Dysgraphia * Sensory Processing
My practice is divided between weekly after-school provision, and bespoke exam performance training during school holidays.
How can my child get a place in your practice?
The first step is to fill in the initial enquiry form. I will send you my practice details and you can let me know if these suit you. Please note that my practice is necessarily small and children tend to stay for many years. However, occasional places do arise and are always filled from the waiting list. When a place becomes available, I interview several parents for the place, looking for a good fit between your child’s needs, my experience and you as parents. I will let you know when the slot is so that we can make sure the date and time work for you.
When your child joins my practice, there is a 6 week period of assessment to make sure it is a good fit for your family and for my teaching style. After 6 weeks, the place becomes your child’s going forward.
Testimonials
"Diagnoses are useful for many reasons but they are simply a short-hand for a set of difficulties that often go together. Dyslexia, for example, can have many different causes and presentations. You may need a bridge between the (necessarily) complicated information in a good educational report and communicating the day-to-day education strategies to the teaching staff who support your child. Julianne bridges that gap. She has a high-grade specialist educational background and could charm the birds from the trees with her capacity to communicate; a formidable skill-set for an advocate. You want Julianne Miller on your team."
Her confidence in me and high expectations has led me to succeed in ways even I am proud of. Lulu, 17
I went from getting a D in my Year 12 English A-Level mock to being on track to achieve an A. Julianne was the first person to have faith in me.
Julianne will teach me the Treaty of Versailles while I’m lying on her kitchen floor. If for whatever reason that day I can’t pay attention or some information just isn’t going in we will park it and do something else. If my brain says not today, it means not today.
I like her because she treats me like a real person and not some hopeless case who can’t spell
If it weren't for you, teachers would still be saying all my problems are that I don’t believe in myself, and that I’m not trying hard enough.
Subjects that I never found interesting have become my favourites due to Julianne’s passion and unique way of teaching.
Her confidence in me and high expectations has led me to succeed in ways even I am proud of.
Julianne identified ways in which I required extra help in school, and then was instrumental in getting the school to provide me with this support.
She taught me a range of strategies for learning and retaining information which I continue to use today.