Children's Secretary Ed Balls last week announced a pilot scheme to improve support for dyslexic children, identified through the Every Child a Reader programme. An additional £1m a year for the next three years will provide intensive support for children in 10 local authorities, he said.
But Xtraordinary People's director Kate Griggs said the pilots would be pointless since there was already considerable knowledge of what dyslexic children needed in school.
"It is a step in the right direction but the concern is that if there are lots of pilots running we are not getting to the root cause, which is to make sure there is a specialist teacher in every school," she said.
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