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

Treasurer: Julia Kender

Assessment Issues Coordinator: Alice Thomas

Representatives:

• PASSHE: Dr Dylan Griffiths PhD, MMath (Hons), PGCert (FE/HE) Dyslexia/Dyscalculia, PQATM
• British Dyslexia Association: Lynn Lovell MA (SpLD), AMBDA, AMBDA Dyscalculia, APC, APS, Head of Professional Standards, BDA
• Dyslexia Guild: Dr Anna Smith, BSc (Hons), MDG, APC
• Helen Arkell Dyslexia Charity: Rachael McMullen MA, MSc, PGCE, PG Dip (SpLD), BA (Hons), AMBDA, APC
• Patoss Dyslexia Charity: Lesley Browne, MSc, BA (Hons), PGCE (FE/HE), PG Cert (SpLD), PPM. Chief Executive Officer

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
• Julia Kender MA (SpLD), BA Hons, QTS, APC: SASC Treasurer and STEC Committee Member
• Mark Loveday BA (Hons), QTS, Dip SpLD, NPQH, MCCT, PPM Headmaster, Frewen College
• Prof Michelle Luciano BPsych(Hons), PhD, Personal Chair of Behavioural Genetics, University of Edinburgh
• Sarah Sainty, MSc, CertMRCSLT, BA (Hons), MDG, APC: Speech and language therapist, assessment consultant
• Alice Thomas, B.Sc (Hons), QTS, PG Dip (SpLD), AMBDA, APC, Specialist advisory teacher and assessor at a multi-academy trust
• Dr Mark Turner: Educational Psychologist and Managing Director Real Group Ltd

Observers: 

• Hannah Farndon MSc, BSc (Hons), GMBPSs: British Psychological Society (BPS) 
• Sarah Guest MEd, BA (Hons), MA Programme Leader, University of Chester
• 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)