ANNEX B
List of Organisations and Individuals
Association of Directors of Education (ADES)
Barnardos Scotland
CALL Centre
Capability Scotland
Chief Executives of Local Authorities (for written comments and copies of Children's Services Plans and Community Care Plans)
Children in Scotland
Contact a Family
Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA)
Dr Kay Tisdall, University of Glasgow
Dr Patricia Jackson, Consultant Paediatrician, Edinburgh Sick Children's NHS Trust
ENABLE
Glencryan School Board
Grant-Aided Schools:
Minority Ethnic Learning Disabilities Initiative
Mr Gilbert Mackay, Research Co-ordinator, University of Strathclyde
Mr James Taylor, Head Teacher, Struan House School, Alloa
Mrs Carole P Bowie, Head Teacher, Campsie View School, East Renfrewshire
Mrs Diane Lourie, Parent
Mrs Susan Laidlaw, Headteacher, and parent/staff at Liberton Primary School, Edinburgh
Mrs Sylvia Russell, Director, National SEN In-Service Training Co-ordination Project
Ms Lorna Walker, Senior Education Officer Borders Council
National Association of Paediatric Occupational Therapists
National Association of Special Educational Needs (NASEN)
National Deaf Children's Society
Parents and children involved with Edinburgh South-East Paediatric Mobility Trust
Parents Group, Stanmore House School
Playplus and Stirling Council Education Service
Royal National Institute for Deaf People
Scottish Independent Special Schools Group
Scottish National Federation for the Welfare of the Blind
SENSE Scotland
Take Two Befriending Project
Visits to Local Authorities:
The Committee also received presentations on behalf of the Beattie Committee, which is reviewing post school education and training for young people with special needs, and the Learning Disabilities Review being conducted by the Scottish Office Social Work Services Group.
In addition, the Committee drew on evidence received in over 300 responses to the consultation exercise on the 1998 Government discussion paper on special educational needs provision in Scotland.