Hannah McCormack
Early years lecturer N/A, And PhD Student at University of Dundee
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Hi, I'm Tina, a former experienced teacher, and I have been working with PANS PANDAS UK, a charity focused on these post infectious neuro-inflammatory conditions for around three years. These conditions can cause children to quickly deteriorate from doing well in school to having complex needs. Awareness about these conditions is currently low, but it is improving thanks to recent advances in the medical field, a Parliamentary debate and media coverage. PANS/ PANDAS can present with some unusual characteristics, and this combined with a lack of awareness and training for schools has made things more difficult. The recent recognition of both PANS/PANDAS as distinct diseases by the NHS, now presents a great opportunity to raise further awareness across education.
Hello! I am a specialist speech and language therapist (MSc Speech and Language Therapy) with 13 years of experience in mainstream (Primary and Secondary), centres and special schools.
I am a huge advocate of helping school staff to feel confident about helping their pupils with SLCN. As such, I help to run the Facebook group Speech and Language Support for Schools. For all those who work in schools, we would love to see you in there! Nursery staff are also welcome!
I love working for Speech & Language Link, as it allows me to spread awareness of SLCN and support pupils on a much wider scale. We create award-winning school-based screening and intervention software packages, used to spot and provide therapy children with SLCN.
I look forward to chatting to you soon!
I was a special schools teacher for 28 years then an ICT SEN Advisor for a local education authority before setting up my own Assistive Technology company doing consultancy, assessment and training in the area of Assistive Technology.
I am a council member for the British Assistive Technology Association and the producer of "The Power of Assistive Technology film series.
I am a freelancre trainer with Neurobox as well as an international speaker at events here in the UK at The Dyslexia Show, BETT Show & BDA groups around the country