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Judith Stansfield is an independent consultant in special educational needs and information and communications technologies.
After qualifying as a geography teacher she taught in a grammar school , then a college of education (teacher training) for 10 years. She got married and worked in a primary school before having a daughter. She then moved into Adult Literacy support, before taking up a post in a special school for children with physical disabilities.. While there, she became involved with the newly emergent Micros in Schools Project and was seconded to work at Newcastle SEMERC, a government agency set up to provide support and training for teachers of children with SEN in NE England. She came back to her LEA to work as the SEN ICT Co-ordinator, running a loans bank of IT equipment, assessing the children and training the teachers how to use IT effectively.
After retirement, she continues as an independent consultant, assessing children, writing booklets and articles and presenting seminars and workshops all over the all over the UK and in Denmark, Jersey, Brussels and Atlanta , USA. She was a mentor for one NOF teacher ICT training programme and was involved in designing SEN ICT modules for several other providers.
She is a member and former chair of the British Dyslexia Association’s Computer Committee and is currently the reviews and literature editor. She was the founding Chair of the National Association of Special Educational ICT Interest Group. |
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