Meet Our Experts

Helen is a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapist with over 15 years’ experience and has developed specialisms in Children’s Developmental Disorders and Paediatric Dysphagia. Her Speech Sound Builders game can be found here.

Anna Wille is a mindfulness teacher, coach and author who has trained extensively in Mindfulness to become one of a handful of people qualified to teach nationally and internationally tried and test programmes to children and adults. Her Mindfulness Shuffle cards are available here.

Lois is an independent SEND advisor and lecturer with over 36 years’ experience working with children with SEN. She has developed a range of products with LDA which can be found here 

Kate is a SENCO and primary deputy head. She is a Lead Practitioner for Inclusion and delivers training in the UK and Internationally.

She is the series editor for Target Ladders and they can be found here

Lynn heads a team of specialist teachers who deliver autism advice and training. She has worked as a mainstream teacher, early years lecturer and SENCO. Lynn’s new book Stories That Explain is available now.

Mark is a specialist teacher for children with autism and complex needs, working across primary and secondary schools. His latest book Target Ladders: Visual Perception can be found here

Melanie is a dual-qualified consultant clinical psychologist and teacher with extensive experience working within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). She has written two books for our How to … series on enhancing the mental health and emotional wellbeing of children with SEN. Click here to find out more.

Alison is a dual-qualified speech and language therapist and primary school teacher. She runs her own private clinic for pupils with social and communication difficulties. Click here to view her bestselling Socially Speaking game and book.

Celia has many years’ experience running a dyslexia unit and is the director of Irlen Centre North East where she diagnoses Irlen syndrome, a visual perception difficulty. She is the co-author of the Beat Dyslexia range, click here to view.

Jim Carrington is an award-winning children’s author and the Inclusion Manager at a mainstream primary school in London. His Otis the Robot series of books help to teach social skills and are available here

David’s experience as an English teacher, educational psychologist, researcher and author have all contributed to his understanding of literacy. He is the author of the bestselling Ace Spelling Range which can be found here.

Joanna is an international sensory engagement and inclusion specialist, trainer, author, TEDx speaker and founder of The Sensory Projects. Her sensory stories can be found here Voyage To Arghan and Ernest and I