1. What we changed after your answers
All live now. Shout if anything reads wrong.
- "Specialist Dyslexia Practitioner" everywhere, and PDA added to your specialist training.
- Sessions now say: your private classroom opposite Askham Bryan College, online, or at the family's home. All "at my house" wording is gone.
- "DBS checked and insured" is now on the site, right under the main heading.
- 1:1 pricing is £50 an hour flat, online or in person. Small groups now say 3 to 4 pupils.
- "How it works" now explains your Seesaw photo, video and note updates after every lesson.
- Functional Skills English and Maths added as a service, with exams through pass.tech.
- The assessor section now says July 2027, Level 7 then APC. The waitlist stays open, matching your one-a-week goal.
- A whole new schools page built from your PDF, with all three packages and the add-ons.
- Your Facebook page is now properly linked (from the share link you pasted). Instagram too.
- The classroom address (2 Tower House, Askham Fields Lane, YO23 3NU) is on the contact section with a Google Maps link.
- The contact form now asks parents for their phone number, email and the best day and time for you to call, exactly as you asked. No booking calendar.
- Group pricing (from £25 per pupil, groups of 3 to 4) and the schools page are confirmed and staying as they are.
2. Nothing outstanding
You've answered everything, and your new photo is on the site. Just the box below for anything new.
Anything else?
3. Blog drafts for your sign-off
Here's the deal: we write articles that help parents find you on Google, you only ever check them for accuracy. One at a time, never a pile. Read it (2 or 3 minutes, it's all stuff you know inside out), then type one of three things in the box: "approve", "approve with changes" (say what), or "not this one". Nothing goes public without your word.
✓ Draft 1: "How much does a dyslexia assessment cost in York?" — LIVE
Approved with your rewrite of the "what an assessment involves" section, which is now in word for word. It's live in your Guides section. See the finished article.
Draft 2: "Moving up to secondary school with dyslexia"
Built around your Year 7 transition work, to catch parents worrying about the move to secondary. The pink highlight marks the one line to double-check (how you describe the pre-teaching you do).
4. What the research says
The short version, from a wider look at the York and North Yorkshire dyslexia market.
- No direct competitor is based in Copmanthorpe itself. The nearest specialist tutors are 20 to 40 minutes away, most with weak or broken websites, a genuine open door for search.
- Your current £50 an hour is already at the top of the specialist band nationally. Most qualified specialist dyslexia tutors charge £40 to £60 an hour.
- Local full diagnostic assessment prices cluster at £480 to £500 (Yorkshire Dyslexia £480, Rethinking Dyslexia £485, White Rose £500), so £450 to £550 is a sensible starting anchor for you once qualified.
- Home education in England has grown to 126,000 children, up 13% in a year, and SEND children are over-represented in that group. This lines up well with your daytime, flexible-hours offer.
- City of York Education, Health and Care Plans are up 41% over the last three years, a clear sign of growing local demand for specialist support.
- Private dyslexia assessors typically book within weeks, not the months or years families can wait through school routes, a strong selling point once you are qualified.
- No other provider in York is yet marketing an upcoming dyslexia assessor service, so "new assessor coming 2027" is unclaimed messaging worth owning early.
- Both tinytutoryork.co.uk and tinytutoryork.com are currently unregistered, worth securing soon given how clean the match is.
5. Ideas worth considering
Five ideas, each with one line on why. All are shown on the site as suggestions to confirm with you, not as decided prices.
1Raise the after-school rate to £55 to £60 an hour, with a waitlist
You are already fully booked at £50, which is at the top of the going rate. A rise is unlikely to reduce demand and rewards your busiest hours properly.
2Offer a cheaper daytime rate, around £40 to £45 an hour
This fills currently empty daytime capacity with a fast-growing, well-matched audience: home-educated and flexi-schooling families.
3Run a Year 7 Summer Transition Programme as a block booking
It builds directly on the pre-teaching you already do, and summer is naturally quiet for school-term pupils, so it fills the gap well.
4Sell your teaching resources direct through Payhip, alongside TES
TES fees eat into your low-price sales more than expected. Selling direct keeps far more of each sale for the same work you have already done.
5Start a dyslexia assessment waitlist now, ahead of qualifying in 2027
Local demand is already strong. Capturing interest early means you do not lose it when you are ready to launch the service.
6. How this page works, and keeps working
The short version: this is a two-way notebook between you and Max, and it does not stop after launch.
- Type into any box on this page and press save. Max reads your answers, and his website helper updates the site to match, usually the same day.
- Want something changed, added or researched? Ask in the "Anything else" box. Wording, prices, a new offer, a question about a platform, anything. It gets looked into and the answer comes back here or through Max.
- Nothing goes public without you. The site stays on this private preview link until you say you are happy with it.
- Once it is live, we can see what parents typed into Google to find you and which parts of the site they read. Each month the site quietly gets a little better based on that: sharper wording, seasonal offers like the Year 7 summer programme, new resources in the shop.
- So this page never really finishes. Whenever something changes for you, new prices, new qualification, new idea, come back, type it in a box, save. The site catches up with your real life instead of going stale.