SENDcast Spotlight – Welcome Dr Helen Ross

Dr Helen Ross, Dyslexia expert and consultant

Helen’s Place Education Consultancy

Dr Helen Ross is a fully qualified special needs teacher and former SENCO, working as an independent educational research consultant, specialist assessor and SEND expert.  

Helen is a Trustee of the British Dyslexia Association, Chair of the Wiltshire Dyslexia Association and is on the board of the US, not-for profit National Coalition of Independent Scholars. She has consulted for the British Dyslexia Association, The Committee for Science and Technology (part of the UK Government), and Wiltshire Local Authority. She also works internationally with various third sector and commercial organisations with evaluation, consultancy and resource development.  

Helen’s research explores stakeholder experiences of SEND provision within the mainstream education sector, focussing on the empowerment of those supporting young people, to help them to take ownership of their own learning. She uses her findings from research to inform her own practice and to support other practitioner in their own work, through CPD webinars and live sessions.  

 

Contact Helen:

Website – helensplace.co.uk

Twitter – @drhelenross 

Facebook – www.facebook.com/drhelenross  

Email – helen@helensplace.co.uk  

Recent/upcoming:

• Ross, H (2023) ‘Educating Post COVID-19: Moving on From Pandemic Pedagogy’ The Independent Scholar 9 pp 5-22 Available from: https://www.ncis.org/sites/default/files/TIS%20Vol.9%20FINAL.pdf  
• Ross, H. (2023, March) ‘No Woman is an Island’ From the Council to the Commons Chamber 3: 25.  
• Ross, H. (2022, November) ‘Dyslexia: from the Inside and Out.’ Dystinct Magazine 12: 41-56. 
• Ross, H (2023). Interviewed by Stig Abell. Aasmah Mir and Stig Abell with Times Radio Breakfast. Times Radio 14 March. Available at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/live (Accessed 14 March 2023) 
• Ross, H (2023) Expert Opinion in ‘ChatGPT for students with Dyslexia? Expert Opinion: Examining the use of ChatGPT as an Assistive Technology Tool for Students with Learning Disabilities’, Feb 23 [Online] Available at https://on.dystinct.org/chatgpt-learning-disability-assistive-technology-expert-opinion/ (Accessed 14 March 2023) 

Presented at the Dyslexia Show 2023 

Key note speaker at Curia’s Dyslexia Commission Report Launch in  march 2023