Rose McDonald

Learning Difficulties Expert

Rose is passionate about supporting children with additional learning needs and difficulties. She has lived and worked with children for over 20 years in India, England and now Mallorca.  She has worked in special education centres and eventually set up her own charity in England to support the emotional and mental health of children with additional needs. She has practised and taught yoga since she was 17 and finds its relaxation benefits rewarding to share with teenagers and children.
She studied at Bristol University and then trained in Montessori education in London and specialised in learning support.
Her special area of interest is Dyslexia and she trained at the British Dyslexia Association in their pioneering Certificate in Dyslexia, Literacy, Support and Intervention. She finds building a trusting relationship with students key to understanding and discovering where any difficulties lie and the best way to support them. One to one or small group tuition gives these students the means to move forward and understand themselves, in a way they may never be able to in a typical classroom environment. Once children have solid foundations and discover tools and the ways they can best learn, they can then begin to feel confident in their unique ways of learning.

Rose finds it a pleasure to be on this path with the children and infinitely rewarding to support them.

She has 2 children herself, both unique in their learning abilities, giving her the first-hand knowledge of being a parent to a child who needs support in their learning.