The iDeaL Approach for Specialists provides the tools and resources for independent intervention specialists to assess, teach and monitor progress of students with specific literacy learning differences.
The iDeaL Approach for Specialists supports educators in delivering Structured Literacy support for learners who need tailored intervention. By providing evidence-based tools and resources, the iDeaL Approach for Specialists enables educators to address specific learning needs effectively.
The online platform is tailored for Tier 3 intervention, housing a comprehensive assessment that guides the creation of a personalised, prioritised scope and sequence of teaching. With systematic and cumulative resources, educators are equipped with options to teach concepts in a way that supports different learner profiles, ensuring each student progresses with tailored, high-quality support. The platform’s ongoing progress monitoring also allows educators to track and refine intervention strategies, making it an invaluable resource for fostering student success in literacy.
Research-Backed Foundations
Built on a solid foundation of national and international research, the iDeaL Approach for Specialists provides a systematic, cumulative, and purposefully slow scope and sequence tailored for intervention settings.
Evidence Based Assessment Tools
Access quality intervention assessment tools to craft diagnostic education plans for evidence-based literacy instruction.
Intervention Instruction
Equip yourself with tools and resources for intervention teaching – diagnostic, systematic, cumulative, and multi-sensory. Deliver instruction using explicit, direct methods for optimal results.
iDeaL Specialist Platform
Gain access to our platform, featuring a wealth of resources, quality assessments, and reporting systems.
Website Listing
As a user of the iDeaL Approach for Specialists, your business/school will be listed on the Learning MATTERS website.
If you'd like to understand the difference between the iDeaL Approach for Schools and the iDeaL Approach for Specialists, this video tour is an excellent resource. It takes you through the iDeaL Specialist Platform, designed specifically for Tier 3 intervention. The platform features a comprehensive assessment that helps create a tailored, prioritised teaching scope and sequence. With systematic, cumulative resources, educators can choose effective ways to teach concepts, supporting diverse learner profiles and ensuring each student receives tailored, high-quality support.
A requirement to becoming a user of the iDeaL Approach for Specialists is to undertake a simple application process.
One or more of the following prerequisite qualifications/training is required to access the iDeaL Specialist Platform.
Learning MATTERS Intervention Teaching (LMIT) Certification
IMSLE professional training
LETRS professional training
Orton Gillingham training
SPELD training
Sounds-Write training
Post Graduate Literacy Qualification.
The iDeaL Approach offers tailored subscription plans for specialists in a private/tutoring setting, and for schools to suit their unique needs:
Schools Specialist Option
This option supports up to 50 students, making it affordable and practical for school-wide use. It encourages broader adoption while ensuring high-quality structured literacy support for more students.
Private Specialist Option
The platform is designed for personalised, one-on-one tutoring, typically used in a business setting for private tutoring. Pricing reflects the comprehensive features needed to manage smaller student groups (up to 35 or 50 students).
Investment for an Annual Membership
Schools Specialist Option:
Annual Subscription
$499 + GST
Per specialist/user you can have up to 50 students added on the iDeaL Specialist Platform. Each user requires a subscription.
Private Specialist Option One:
Annual Subscription
$999 + GST
Per specialist/user you can have up to 35 students added on the iDeaL Specialist Platform. Each user requires a subscription.
Private Specialist Option Two:
Annual Subscription
$1250 + GST
Per specialist/user you can have up to 50 students added on the iDeaL Specialist Platform. Each user requires a subscription.
Applications for the iDeaL Approach for Specialists will open in early 2025.
What if I do not have a prerequisite qualification/training ?
If you do not have a prerequisite qualification, do not worry, we have developed the Learning MATTERS Intervention Teaching (LMIT) Certification.
Participants of the LMIT course will be supported in learning and administering quality intervention assessment tools suitable for creating diagnostic education plans for use during evidence-based intervention literacy instruction. You will learn to teach in an intervention setting using an approach that is diagnostic, systematic, cumulative and multi-sensory, and delivered using explicit, direct instruction.
The LMIT Certification is an accepted prerequisite qualification as part of the iDeaL Approach for Specialists user application process.
On this map we provide information of intervention specialists/tutors and schools using the iDeaL Approach for Specialists.
The BLUE pins depict tutors/businesses using the iDeaL Approach for Specialists.
The ORANGE pins depict schools using the iDeaL Approach for Specialists.
We encourage you to contact them directly for further information regarding their services.
