Praxis CPD
Stay current. Strengthen your practice. Feel professionally supported.
Practical CPD, specialist guidance and peer support for dyslexia/SPLD assessors — whether you are keeping up to date, developing your craft or preparing for APC renewal.
Professional support grounded in real assessment practice
- Practitioner-led Guidance from Sally-Ann Morrison and other carefully selected specialist practitioners
- Nearly three decades Experience in dyslexia/SpLD assessment
- Former Patoss APC Reviewer Professional insight you can trust
- SASC-authorised CPD Available across selected learning
Choose by what you need now
Which Praxis support is right for you?
These pathways do different jobs. Start with the professional outcome you need now — staying current, developing your craft or preparing for APC renewal.
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I want to stay current Ongoing membership
Praxis Pro
The professional safety net for assessors who want to stay current, connected and professionally safe.
Best for: Assessors who want ongoing updates, practical resources and a trusted professional community.
- Keeps you informed as guidance and practice change
- A complete choice when structured implementation is not what you need
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I want to develop my craft Practice development
Praxis Mastery
The structured implementation pathway for getting measurably better at assessment and report writing.
Best for: Qualified assessors who want supported practice, stronger judgement and something tangible from every Mission.
- Deep implementation through the Praxis Assessment Compass and SAFE
- Nine Missions, foundations and live professional support
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I am renewing my APC Focused pathway
APC 1-2-3
The specific, time-bounded pathway for preparing your Assessment Practising Certificate renewal.
Best for: Assessors approaching renewal who need criteria, milestones and focused help with the renewal process.
- Centred on the APC renewal job
- Distinct from ongoing currency or wider practice development
You may use more than one pathway over time. The important thing is to begin with the support that matches your immediate professional need.
Focused ways to begin
Not looking for an ongoing pathway?
Begin with a practical physical reference, a stand-alone course or a focused area of practice. Each offers a different level of depth, commitment and support.
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Printed practical handbook
The Confident Dyslexia Assessor
A supportive whole-practice reference for the assessment journey, including the Praxis Assessment Compass and SAFE Report Writing Anchor.
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Finite SASC-authorised course
Precision in Best Practice
A step-by-step course for understanding and beginning to adopt the 2025 report format.
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Focused implementation
Individual Missions
Work on one specific practice-development problem through a focused four-week experience with a tangible outcome.
From principles to confident practice
Start with the book. Put it into practice with Mastery.
The Confident Dyslexia Assessor gives you a practical whole-assessment reference. Praxis Mastery provides the structured implementation, live support and repeated practice that help those principles become part of your everyday work.
- Use the book as your desk reference Return to the principles, prompts and frameworks whenever you need them.
- Use Mastery for implementation Apply the ideas through Missions, live support and tangible practice outputs.
- Two distinct ways to learn The book feeds Mastery intellectually, but each remains a separate product.
The 2025 report format
Understand the change. Begin adopting it with confidence.
Precision in Best Practice is a SASC-authorised course that explores the 2025 report format, why it changed and how to begin adopting it in your assessment practice.The Confident Dyslexia Assessor gives you a practical whole-assessment reference. Praxis Mastery provides the structured implementation, live support, and repeated practice that help make those principles part of your everyday work.
- Understand what changed Work through the new format and the reasoning behind it.
- Begin adopting it Translate the guidance into practical changes in your own report-writing process.
- A focused course Choose Precision when you comprehensive need 2025 format training rather than an ongoing membership.
Selected professional learning
Featured CPD for current practice
A considered selection of practical learning for the questions and responsibilities dyslexia assessors are working with now.
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Course
SpLD Assessor's Guide to Onward Referral
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Course
Including Maths in a Dyslexia Assessment
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Course
Diagnostic Decision Making in Dyslexia Assessment
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Course
Beyond “Clumsy”: Understanding DCD/Dyspraxia in SpLD Assessment
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Course
Analysing spelling: a model for practitioners
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Course
Identifying and Addressing Orthographic Difficulties
Find the topic you need
Browse CPD by professional need
Go directly to the area of assessment, analysis or professional practice you are working on.
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2025 Report Format
Understand and adopt the new SASC report format with greater clarity.
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Extending best practice
Strengthen assessment reasoning, analysis and report-writing practice.
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Specific Tests
Explore practical guidance on choosing and using assessment tools.
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Considerations alongside dyslexia
Develop confidence with co-occurring needs and wider assessment considerations.
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SASC Authorised CPD
Find learning that is currently listed as SASC-authorised CPD.
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APC Renewal
Prepare for renewal with focused guidance, tools and support.
From the Praxis community
Professional support that makes practice feel less isolated
What assessors say about having clear guidance, experienced support and a professional community around them.
The Praxis Pro community has given me a safe space to ask questions, feel supported and benefit from Sally Ann’s guidance as well as colleagues. Being with fellow assessors without the negative noise that we’ve experienced in some other groups/platforms has allowed me to focus on what we do as assessors and why it matters. I have learnt a lot and it’s made me want to be better.
I find being a member very re-assuring; it helps me to feel I’m doing the right thing, and when I am not sure I have a very knowledgeable yet friendly and supportive group where I can ask for advice. I find Sally-Ann’s training excellent and her style of delivery is clear and straightforward.
The impact of me being a member has reduced the isolation of being an independent assessor and has brought a like-minded, informed and future-focused community to my door.
Meet the practitioner behind Praxis
Sally-Ann Morrison
Founder of Praxis CPD · Former Patoss APC Reviewer
Sally-Ann is an experienced dyslexia assessor, trainer and author who understands the professional realities of working independently. Praxis brings together clear guidance, practical tools and a community where assessors do not have to work everything out alone.
- Nearly three decades working in dyslexia assessment and professional learning
- Former Patoss APC Reviewer and trainer
- Author of The Confident Dyslexia Assessor
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Your next step
Choose the support that fits the work in front of you
Stay current, develop your craft or prepare for renewal. Each Praxis pathway has a clear professional job.
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Stay current
Praxis Pro
Ongoing guidance, resources and professional connection.
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Develop your craft
Praxis Mastery
Structured implementation with tangible practice outcomes.
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Prepare for renewal
APC 1-2-3
Focused support for the APC renewal process.
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Still unsure which route is right? Ask Praxis