Blurry Borders: navigating our SpLD students complex requirements

A 2-hour PASSHE Accredited CPD workshop open to all PASSHE members.

This training provides attendees with an opportunity to reflect on, and discuss, with your professional colleagues about the 'blurry borders' we experience as specialist tutors working with our students complex requirements.

Individual tutors may draw their 'borders' slightly differently from others - and you're happy with that - but, there may be some you are unsure of - or unhappy with.

Find out what others do; what the DSA says (!) and draw your own borders with more confidence.

NOTE: This is a development from the one-hour workshop that has previously been available to PASSHE members online. So, it is different and everyone is welcome to attend.

The training is being delivered via Zoom on Wednesday 1st July 2026, starting at 2.00pm. Attendees will be provided with the Zoom link and any advance documents a week prior to the event.

About the presenter: Dr Karisa Krcmar has an MBA from Glasgow, an MEd and PhD from Birmingham and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She undertook dyslexia teaching and assessor training, followed by CPD focussing on ADHD and Mental Health and became a Specialist Tutor at Loughborough University. She currently leads the PASSHE level 5 course in teaching students with SpLDs in FE and HE.

Karisa is a Mindfulness practitioner, and with one of her colleagues, developed and ran mindfulness workshops culminating in the publishing of 'Mindfulness for Study: from procrastination to action'. She was the first editor of the Journal of Neurodiversity in Higher Education (ADSHE) and has edited books about inclusive learning and teaching (The Inclusivity Gap) and successful projects for building students' mental health resilience (Helping Penguins to Swim).

If you aren't a PASSHE member, you might like to consider joining us for a modest annual fee to access our highly competitively priced PASSHE Accredited training programme and online resources: www.passhe.org.uk