Team

Katie Nelson

Head of Dyslexia-Academy, Specialist Teacher

Katie is an experienced Primary School Teacher and has taught all of the Primary age range. Her wealth of experience is in areas of dyslexia, dyscalculia and Irlen Syndrome where she provides diagnostic assessment, Multi-sensory, structured tuition, study skills sessions and drop in clinics at the Dyslexia Centre. She has a current PATOSS practising certificate, which enables her to assess children, young people and adults for dyslexia and dyscalculia.

She also works in secondary schools, providing access arrangement assessments. Katie is an experienced School SENCO and a Special Educational Needs School Advisor, advising Head Teachers and SENCOs about dyslexia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia. She loves to celebrate the children’s strengths to help raise their self-esteem. Her moto is ‘until you spread your wings, you won’t know how far you can fly’ .

Wendy Hetherington

Head of assessments, Specialist Teacher

Wendy is a qualified literacy Teacher after gaining her PGCE in 2001 and has taught for 17 years. After many years of teaching young people and adults with Literacy difficulties, Wendy was keen to understand more about why, despite adequate schooling, some people still had difficulties. In 2010 She completed a Masters Level Postgraduate Diploma in Specific Learning Difficulties and now works as a Diagnostic Dyslexia Assessor and Specialist Teacher.

She is a huge believer in celebrating the strengths of dyslexia and finding positive role models for young people, as well as trying to find the best strategies and techniques that can help within the education system and workplace..

Nicola Chippendale

Specialist Teacher

Nicola has been teaching for over 10 years. Her specialism is Primary Teacher Training with QTS and children's development and learning.

Nicola has worked across Lancashire in Key Stage One and Two and has been part of a Primary through-to Secondary school. She became a SENCO Assistant 6 years ago then completed the National SENCO Award to become a SENCO three years ago.

Nicola has also worked in a Special School supporting children with ASC and ADHD. She completed training to become a SPLD (Dyslexia) Teacher and is an AMBDA accredited Assessor.

Nicola is passionate about supporting children with dyslexia and all specific learning difficulties to enable them to grow into secure and capable individuals. All of our children deserve the best education they can get, even if this means following new avenues. Nicola feels strongly that a good education will support our next generation to become valuable members in the community, and she strives to support pupils to do this the best way she can.

Jayne Wood

Dyslexia-Academy Online Teacher

Jayne is an experienced primary school teacher, with a special interest in working memory (a key difficulty within a dyslexic profile). She is a Cogmed working memory coach and is trained in the Units of Sound Literacy Programme. Throughout her Dyslexia Training, she gained a special interest in developing phonological awareness skills for the older learner and ways this can be achieved during virtual online learning lessons. Jayne leads the Dyslexia-Centre North West Workshops.

She has a personal interest in supporting you all as her daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia back in 2015, which Jayne feels enables her to off support to parents from not just a professional point of view, but a personal one as well !

Kathy Butler

Teacher

Kathy coordinates SENDCo volunteering and is a Duke of Edinburgh verifier and walking leader. These subject areas are hugely popular and attract lots of individuals (from diverse backgrounds) with dyslexia or other learning difficulties.

Kathy finds this hugely rewarding when they then go onto securing good university places, apprenticeships and/or represent their county or country in sport. Kathy began to train for formal dyslexia specialist qualifications in 2017 after volunteering to help in primary schools and realising many can ‘slip through the net’ and struggle unnecessarily and she wanted to do something about it along with the experience she already has.

Kathy really want to keep raising aspirations and ensure each individual realises they have the potential to achieve whatever they want in life.

Diane Sheron

Specialist Teacher

Diane qualified as a Primary Teacher in 1987 and has a wealth of experience in mainstream schools. She has worked across both Keys Stages as a class teacher, SENDCo, Deputy Head and Acting Head. She has also worked for 12 years in an MLD special school and currently leads an outreach team at a primary pupil referral unit. She is passionate about inclusion, providing bespoke programmes of support for individual children, schools and families.

Diane has trained students at the University of Cumbria and provides training for teachers, support staff and lunchtime supervisors within mainstream schools in how best to support and manage young people with difficulties of a social, emotional and behavioural nature.

Diane’s passion to support pupils with dyslexia started when she became a Paws.b accredited teacher as she realised that Mindfulness can be used as a tool to help reduce stress for children with dyslexia.

Dawn Frith

Highly Specialist Occupational Therapist

Dawn is a highly specialist Paediatric Occupational Therapist, who has comprehensive experience of working with children with both mild and complex needs, including children with dyspraxia. Dawn is able to offer assessments of both motor skills and perceptual development and prescribe a tailored Occupational Therapy programme for parents and carers to follow. Dawn is also able to prescribe specialist equipment to promote the child’s independence and to also meet their postural needs such as seating for home and school and moving and handling equipment.

Dawn has a caring and understanding approach and always delivers child and family orientated therapy and care.Dawn is also a member of the College of Occupational Therapists Independent Practice Special Interest group and maintains her continuing professional development.

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