I have worked in many school settings, both primary and secondary with many different students, all with different access methods. In recent years I have worked with two students to enable them to achieve formally recognised qualifications, BTEC and GCSE within a mainstream setting. This work involved prolonged involvement within the school, training TAs, ensuring they had vital assistive technology and ensuring that a ‘normalway of working’ was established to enable the student to get the reasonable adjustments and exam concessions needed to access these external qualifications.

Through my involvement in exams I became interested, with a number of individuals, in the lack of official guidance on exams. We formed the AAC Exams Access Board, which has recently published a set of guidelines to help SENCOs and SEND managers to approach exam boards to achieve exam concessions.

I have delivered a number of presentations nationwide about AAC and Literacy and Exam Access for AAC Users. I am a Communication Access UK accredited organisation.