Dedicated support that helps your child participate, progress and grow in independence.
Tell us about your child's support needs, preferred schedule and environment. Our team will identify a suitable Learning Support Assistant and manage the placement from matching to monthly reporting.
What a Learning Support Assistant does
A Learning Support Assistant helps a child engage in learning, communicate, regulate, follow routines and become more independent. Support is always guided by a structured plan and delivered under professional oversight.
Homework routines, independence skills, executive-function coaching and after-school regulation.
Classroom participation, transitions, communication and structured 1:1 assistance during the school day.
Structured holiday programmes, social participation and community-based independence goals.
Who benefits from this service
TargetMinds provides educational support — we do not diagnose or provide clinical treatment. Support is guided by parent-provided information and approved plans.
- Children who need help maintaining attention and completing tasks
- Learners who benefit from consistent routines and visual structure
- Students needing 1:1 support to participate confidently in class
- Children working on communication, social participation or regulation goals
- Families implementing recommendations from professionals or schools
- Learners needing help with homework routines and independence at home
How placements work
Share your child's support needs, preferred schedule and setting through the parent portal.
Our academic coordinator confirms requirements and shortlists verified assistants.
You review a candidate profile and meet the assistant before confirming.
Daily updates, monthly reports and transparent billing throughout the placement.
Screening & safeguarding
- • Identity, residency and qualification verification
- • Reference checks and safeguarding acknowledgements
- • Training in behaviour support, first aid and safeguarding where relevant
- • Managed communication channels — no personal contact details exchanged
- • Clear routes to report concerns to the operations team
Monthly billing & replacement
- • Configurable monthly service plans in AED
- • Transparent invoices — separate placement fee, service fee and transport
- • Managed replacement cover if your assistant is unavailable
- • Notice periods, pause and cancel options built in
- • Prorated first month and clear renewal reminders
Frequently asked
No. TargetMinds is an educational service. Support is guided by parent-provided information and approved recommendations.
Our coordinator matches on skills, experience, curriculum familiarity, service area and family preferences before an introduction.
Yes. Parents can request temporary or permanent replacement through the portal, with reasons and preferred timing.
Yes. All communication runs through the TargetMinds platform. Personal phone numbers and emails are not exchanged.
Monthly, in AED, using the plan agreed in your quotation. Overtime and additional hours are approved and invoiced transparently.
You can raise a support ticket or a safeguarding concern from the parent portal at any time — routed directly to our operations team.
Support at home. Success at school.
Request a Learning Support Assistant and our coordinator will be in touch within one business day.