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ABLE

Adult Basic Learning for Everyone - is an adult literacy programme, founded in 1980.

The service offered is free and confidential. The tutoring is adult-centred and the atmosphere is friendly.

Tutoring is available in:-

• 1:1 for beginner learners
• small groups of 3-4
• larger groups for Junior and Leaving Cert

Courses are mostly in:-

• reading
• writing
• spelling
• maths

There are day and evening classes. Outreach classes take place in Mountview, Hartstown, Laurel Lodge, Mulhudddart, Ladyswell, Blakestown and Corduff.

ABLE is always on the look-out for volunteer tutors. Volunteers work 1:1 with beginners. An initial training programme for volunteers is held in the autumn. The course runs one evening a week for 10 weeks and it is accredited as a module in the Certificate in Literacy Tutoring from Waterford Institute of Technology.

Volunteer tutors are expected to tutor for at least one year. There are opportunities to progress onto a career path in literacy work.