If you book the full day Virtual Conference, you will automatically get access to all of these prerecorded seminars from 9th September-7th October.
Delegates attending the full day at our Venue Conferences will have the choice between the first two seminars live on the day, but can also opt to add all the prerecorded seminars to their booking for an extra £10.
Seminar titles for 2025 Virtual Conference will include:
1. The JCQ Inspection: What to expect and how to best prepare - Sue Barnbrook (JCQ Inspector)
2. Case Studies Workshop - Rebecca Thompson
3. An Introduction to the Cognitive Assessments for Multilingual Learners (CAML) - Dr Anne Margaret Smith
4. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test - Third UK Edition (WIAT-III UK) including test administration videos - Rebecca Thompson
5. Increasing Students’ Confidence in Using Their Access Arrangements - Lorraine Lee
6. Supporting Students with Dyscalculia - Judy Hornigold
Additional seminars will be informed by any changes that are made to the JCQ regulations for 2025/26. Any additional seminars will be added to this page in due course.
Having previously been Special Requirements & Centre Approval Manager at AQA and member of the JCQ Special Requirements Committee, Sue is now a current JCQ Inspector. She has been involved in the provision of Access Arrangements, Modified Question Papers and Special Consideration for over twenty years.
Rebecca is a Specialist Teacher with more than 19 years’ assessment experience. She has a current Assessment Practising Certificate, regularly carrying out diagnostic assessment for dyslexia and dyscalculia, as well as carrying out access arrangement assessments. She is a senior assessor and IQA for the PAPAA course, supporting students with the course demands. She is a member of the APC accreditation team for the BDA and is a SpLD Assessment Standards Committee (SASC) approved CPD provider, offering a SASC approved mentoring course for diagnostic report writing and a Feifer Assessment of Maths course.
Anne Margaret started her career as a teacher of English as a foreign / additional language over 30 years ago. Alongside her language teaching, she has worked as a dyslexia assessor and specialist tutor for more than 20 years. Last year she also qualified as a Speech and Language Therapist, and now works with neurodivergent adults. She founded ‘ELT well’ in 2005 and offers professional development and resources to language teachers and dyslexia assessors in all contexts. She developed the CAML (Cognitive Assessments for Multilingual Learners) as a response to the complex issues encountered when assessing EAL users.
Lorraine runs her own training company (lorrainelee.org) offering dynamic and inspirational training for parents, teachers, pupils and early years practitioners. This training is delivered through a range of services: Parent workshops, one to one sessions, Teacher training, INSET day training, PSHE lessons, year group assemblies and small pupil groups. Lorraine has 3 children and a background in Child Psychology, Positive Parenting Training and Child Development. She is passionate about giving children and young people the best chances possible.
Judy is an independent education consultant specialising in dyslexia and dyscalculia. When Judy was Senior Lecturer in Inclusion at Edgehill University, she was responsible for developing a PGCE in Dyscalculia and she wrote the British Dyslexia Association’s courses on Dyscalculia. She has written a guide book for parents of children with dyslexia, two books of ready-made lessons for learners with dyscalculia, the dyscalculia pocketbook and most recently the SEN books publication ‘Making Maths Visual and Tactile’. She has delivered key notes, workshops and training in Dyscalculia across the world.
