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Advisory Committee: Report into the Education of Children with Severe Low Incidence Disabilities

ANNEX A

Membership of Advisory Committee on the Co-Ordination and Provision of Education for Severe Low Incidence Disabilities

Name	Background
Professor Sheila Riddell,	Chair of Social Policy (Disability Studies) Chair Glasgow University. Formerly Professor of Sociology and Dean of Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Napier University. Professor of Education, Stirling University. Professor Riddell has undertaken a range of research projects on policy and provision for children with SEN.
Mrs Jane Ansell	Director, Sleep Scotland, a support organisation for parents of special needs children with sleeping difficulty. Parent of child with special educational needs.
Mrs Ann Auchterlonie	Scottish Development Officer, AFASIC. Formerly Depute Director of Education, Fife Regional Council with special responsibility for strategic and development planning and special educational needs. Also Chair the Educational Broadcasting Council Scotland.
Mrs Jane E Baines	Chair of the Scottish Association for Pre-School Home Visiting Teachers for children with special needs. Co-ordinator, Pre-school Teaching Service for Children with Special Needs.
Mrs Moira Bisset	Co-ordinator of Parent to Parent, Tayside. Member of Clinical Directorate Management, Community Child Health Directorate, Dundee. Board member of Children in Scotland. Non- executive Board Member of Dundee Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Vice-Chairman of Brittle Bone Society. Member of Perth College Advisory Committee.
Mrs Alison Closs	Lecturer in special educational needs, Moray House Institute of Education. Member, Scottish Steering Group, Contact - A - Family.
Mr George Gordon	Chairman (until February 1999), Board of Governors, Craighalbert Centre. Member, Board of Managers of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Society for the Deaf. Formerly Her Majesty's Chief Inspector with responsibility for SEN.
Mrs Anne Grayshan	Chair of Graysmill School Board. Special education representative on City of Edinburgh Parents Consultative Committee. Chair of the organising committee of the Graysmill School Playscheme. Parent of children with special educational needs.
Mr Jimmy Hawthorn	Group Manager (Children and Families), Borders Council Social Work Department.
Mrs Elizabeth Murray	SEN Support Officer, East Renfrewshire Council.
Ms Margaret Orr	Senior Education Officer, Special Educational Needs, Glasgow City Council.
Mr Gordon Phillips	Principal, National Autistic Society, Daldorch House School. Formerly Principal Psychologist for Glasgow City Council.
Dr Sheelagh Phillips	Senior Clinical Medical Officer, Yorkhill NHS Trust. Community Paediatrician. Member the Visual Impairment Assessment Team in Glasgow.
Mr Nicholas Watson	Lecturer, Department of Nursing Studies, University of Edinburgh. Convenor, Accessability Lothian. Grant holder on "Life as a Disabled Child", a research project on the views and experience of disabled children.

The Committee gratefully acknowledges the support received from the following Scottish Executive officials:

Dr Gibson, HMI

Dr Bashford, SMO, Medical Directorate, Management Executive

Mr Bob Irvine, Head of Schools Provision and Organisation Division

Mr David Miller, Head of SEN Policy Branch, (from January 1999)

Mr John Bissett, Committee Secretary, SEN Policy Branch

Ms Pauline Jordan and Mr Andrew Wilson-Annan, Education Statistics Division

In addition, the Committee thanks Mr David Binnie, Head of SEN Policy Branch, (until September 1998) and Mr John Convery, SEN Policy Branch, (until November 1998) for their support in the early stages of its work.

The Committee records special thanks to Mrs Hilary McColl, Independent Consultant, for her work in gathering and presenting information from schools and local authorities.