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The SASC Board

The SASC Board

The remit of SASC and its elected officers was first established in the Memorandum of the Association (2008, amended 2014) and the Articles of the Association (2009, amended 2014).

The current committee comprises the following representatives:

Chair: Lynn Greenwold OBE
Acting Vice Chair: Caroline Holden
Financial Director: Julia Kender

Representatives:

Independent Representatives:

  • Kate Blundell MSc, MA (SpLD), BSc (Hons), PGCE, MBPsS, FHEA, FSET, FDG (APC), PPM, AMBDA, AMBDA FE/HE
  • Dr Helen Duncan MSc, PGCE, PG Dip (SpLD), AMBDA: Senior Neurodiversity Adviser at the University of Cambridge
  • Caroline Holden B.Sc (Hons) QTS, MA, OCR PG Dip (SpLD): SASC Assessment Issues Co-ordinator
  • Julia Kender MA (SpLD), BA Hons, QTS, APC: SASC Finance Director and STEC Committee Member
  • Katherine Kindersley BA (Hons), PGCE, OCR PG Dip (SpLD), AMBDA Director Dyslexia Assessment
  • Mark Loveday BEd, Dip SpLD, NPQH Head of Service, CSSS
  • Dr Michelle Luciano, Personal Chair of Behavioural Genetics, University of Edinburgh
  • Jennifer McDermott BA (Hons), PGCE, PG Dip (SpLD), PPM, AMBDA, APC: Patoss Lecturer and Mentor
  • Dr Mark Turner: Educational Psychologist and Managing Director Real Group Ltd

Observers: 

  • Dr Sharon Dobson Waters: Head of Education Department, Teeside University
  • Hannah Farndon MSc, BSc (Hons), GMBPSs: British Psychological Society (BPS) 
  • Sarah Guest MEd, BA (Hons), MA Programme Leader, University of Chester
  • Lynn Lovell MA (SpLD), AMBDA, AMBDA Dyscalculia, APC, APS, Head of Professional Standards, BDA
  • Alison Szalay M.Ed SEND, B.Ed (hons), PGCPSE (E801 Difficulties in Literacy Development), AMBDA, NASENCo: Specialist advisory teacher and educational consultant
  • Denise Thornton: Psychologist, Association of Child and Independent Psychologists in Private Practice (ACHiPP) 

See also