Adult Basic Literacy: ADO was a founder member of the then DfES Skills for Live Dyslexia Advisory Group, inputting into the roll-out of this major initiative. Through the project Dyslexia in Different Contexts, we provide distance learning training for up to 1500 skills-for-life teachers and trainers.

Further/Higher education: ADO played a significant role on the National Working Party on Dyslexia in Higher Education, a group who surveyed current provision for students with dyslexia and outlined good practice in the areas of policy, identification, assessment, counselling and access to examinations. ADO contributed to the ensuing definitive report: Dyslexia in Higher Education: Policy, Provision & Practice (HEFCE 1999) and also produced a digest entitled: The Changing Face of Dyslexia in Higher Education (HEFCE 1999).

Prison education. ADO promoted the dyslexia-friendly approach in the government Dyslexia Focus Group for Prisons. Following ADO’s meeting with the Prisons Minister, the Home Office added dyslexia into their policy paper the Offenders’ Learning Journey so that contractors now have to demonstrate their ability to identify and support dyslexics.

National Union of Students (NUS). We have continuously provided Guides to Further and Higher Education for the NUS to support their disability and welfare advisers.

Ufi/learndirect. We produced “The Adult Dyslexia Guide: A Guide for Learndirect Tutors and Support Staff” to the 2000 learn/direct centres and the 6,000 UK online centres. We formed a committee to address dyslexia and its overlapping conditions; and guidance for the design and content of their dyslexia websites; development in conjunction with BFAWU (Bakers Food & Allied Workers Union) of an accredited e-learning and dyslexia course; producing a series of awareness conferences in conjunction with the then Department for Education & Skills’ (now the Department for Children, Schools & Families) E-learning Strategy Unit and UfI/learndirect.
We co-operated within the UFI Single Equality Scheme Action Plan to deliver training to learn/direct centres and developed an accredited e-learning course: “Adult Dyslexia Organisation – Supporting Learners with Dyslexia in E-learning” and a CD-Rom on assistive technology. We are currently developing three centres of excellence and organizing a series of awareness seminars

Exam bodies. We liaised with City & Guilds and Open College Network on accreditation of our courses

Making courses dyslexia-friendly. ADO provided consultancy to Habia, the Hairdressing and Beauty Industry Authority Sector Skills Body in 1999 and 2006, to make their NVQ courses dyslexia-friendly and student-friendly.
The Supporting Dyslexic Learners in Different Contexts project funded by the Skills for Life Strategy Unit, managed by CfBT Education Trust in partnership with CTAD and Dyslexia Action.

Learning & Skills Council (LSC) ADO provided consultation report to address the LSC’s Disability Equality Scheme.