Credentials
- I am chief executive for Inaura the inclusion charity and a chartered psychologist. Inaura is a charity working to reduce the exclusion of children with special or additional educational needs. Inaura is also a registered independent school for which I am the Headteacher and a registered independent fostering agency for which I am the Responsible Individual. My main area of expertise is intellectual and psychological disability whether acquired or innate.
- My specialist competencies comprise working with learning disabilities, special educational needs, restorative approaches, educational management, relational skills, children, families, and bereavement. I have been providing assessments of adults with learning and/ or other specific disabilities, adolescents and young people for a variety of purposes including family and criminal court proceedings for more than ten years.
- In 1997 – 2001 I led the Croydon Sexuality and Personal Development joint Project for Croydon Social Services and Surrey NHS Trust to establish a sexuality and personal development team for adults with learning disabilities. I was a participant in the Home Office advisory group on sexual offending and capacity to consent. I am a ;co-author in the Books Beyond Words series for people with learning disabilities published by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
- I have a BA degree in Social Psychology and a Doctoral degree (PhD) awarded in 1997 by London University (Department of Psychology). I have been routinely using psychometric tests for more than ten years. During 1998-2001 I was a senior research fellow in the Department of Psychiatry of Disability, at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, where I participated in the analysis of forensic psychiatric studies, and in particular the relationship between intellectual impairment and offending behaviour.
- I am a member of the British Psychological Society list of expert witnesses. I am also a qualified teacher for children with special needs.
