Jane Sadler - Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Rainbow Centre

Jane Sadler is a registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, the Health Professionals Council, and has a Cert Ed and MPhil (Speech) degree. She trained as a SLT after working for 15 years as a teacher, having seen the critical role speech, language and communication play in the social, emotional and cognitive development of her pupils.

Since then Jane has had wide experience of children with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties, having supervised SLT students at Newcastle then Sheffield University where, until September 2006, she directed a web-based distance learning course on language and communication impairment in children for LSAs, teachers, SLTs and educational psychologists.

These years as a university lecturer have been interspersed with periods when Jane returned to the ‘grass roots’, working as peripatetic SLT in mainstream primary schools in New Zealand, and as Key Stage 3 SLT at an I CAN specialist language school, where she had responsibility also for literacy development throughout the school.

Over the years, Jane has attended numerous short courses and workshops (e.g. on Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, Autistic Spectrum Disorders, Dyspraxia, Swallowing Disorders, Dyslexia, Specific Language Impairment, Metaphon, Hannon, Derbyshire Language Scheme, Lidcombe Dysfluency Programme). She has organised and presented at several large conferences, run workshops for teachers and parents, and is co-editor of three books (with Dr Kay Bevan), a CD-Rom on child language development for parents and teachers (with Dr Judy Clegg), and has written a number of journal articles.