OUR TEAM

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VIVIENNE CLIFFORD

Educational Psychologist

Vivienne is a qualified Educational Psychologist who is also trained in ADOS-2. Vivienne previously worked at senior level within a local authority psychology service and also held a role as Professional Tutor and Honorary Lecturer at University College London, teaching and supervising Educational Psychologists in training. Vivienne has an established private practice working for many years as an independent educational psychologist.

Vivienne’s work involves completing assessments of children and young people with special educational needs. She has acted as consultant educational psychologist to a number of local authority schools (working with them to provide assistance with school development and drawing up and evaluating intervention programmes for children). She has also held practising privileges linked to The Portland Hospital and The Harley Street Children’s Hospital. Vivienne also works as an Expert Witness including for Special Educational Needs Tribunals.

Vivienne has contributed to conferences on a national basis, providing keynote speeches and seminars and has led practice on working with young people to the age of 25 years. Much of her case work has involved autism spectrum disorder.

Vivienne is a director of the London Assessment and Advisory Practice.

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JUANITA HURLEY

Consultant Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Juanita is an HCPC-registered Speech and Language Therapist with a Diploma in Autism from Division TEACCH, North Carolina, and further postgraduate qualifications. Across a 30-year career, Juanita has held senior NHS and education roles, worked directly with schools and local authorities, and advised professional bodies.

As a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist, she has extensive experience with children, adolescents and adults with communication disorders, SLCN, Developmental Language Disorder, Speech Sound Disorder, Autism, Dysphagia, Downs Syndrome, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia. Juanita currently undertakes assessment and diagnostic work in an established independent practice, completes Expert Witness work for SEND Tribunals and is a director of the London Assessment and Advisory Practice.

 

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Julia Avnon

Child and Adolescent Psychologist

Julia is a Child and Adolescent Psychologist with twenty years of experience working with children and young people with a variety of psychological, neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions, including ASD, ADHD, complex epilepsy, learning disability and neuro-disability.

Within the NHS, she has worked in specialist, multi-disciplinary assessment and intervention teams at Great Ormond Street Hospital, University College of London Hosital and St. George’s NHS Trust neuro-disability team. Julia is a Clinical Tutor at Anna Freud Centre and an Honorary Lecturer at the University College of London, where she is part of a team training the NHS workforce working in the field of autism and learning disability.

Julia is also involved in research in neurodiversity as a Clinical Fellow for the Group for Research in Relationships and Neurodiversity.

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Dr Michael Hymans

Chartered and HCPC Registered Practitioner Psychologist, specialising in Educational and Child Psychology

Dr Michael Hymans has over 40 years’ experience as an Educational Psychologist, latterly as Principal Educational Psychologist within a local authority Children’s Services Department. Michael has taught in schools and pupil referral units and is a Trustee at an Academy Trust for Special Schools. He also facilitated a fathers’ group for children with special educational needs for 13 years.

Since 2010, Michael has prepared more than 450 reports for the family courts, solicitors and Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunals (SENDIST). He has attended and presented seminars at the annual conferences of the Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP) and the British Psychological Society (BPS) Division of Educational and Child Psychologists (DECP) over the past 20 years. Michael regularly delivers training to Educational Psychologists, Trainee Educational Psychologists and school staff on a range of topics, including child development, special educational needs and school-based interventions.

Michael has authored and contributed to numerous publications and professional papers covering a broad range of topics, including children's behaviour, learning and motivation, multi-agency working, anger management, and coaching and mentoring in schools. He has also contributed a chapter on working as an expert witness in the courts, due to be published as part of his involvement with the BPS Expert Witness Advisory Group.

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Anele Greissel

Occupational Therapist

Anele Griessel qualified as an Occupational Therapist in 1996 and has more than 20 years of experience working as an occupational therapist in a variety of settings and services including NHS community children’s services and independent specialist schools.  She completed the Sensory Integration Post Graduate training to Level 4 and is an Advanced Practitioner in Sensory Integration.  She completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Developmental Disorders in 2013 and is currently undertaking an MSc degree.

Anele is qualified to administer specialist assessments such as the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills and the Sensory Integration and Praxis Tests.  Anele is a certified provider of specialist interventions such as Interactive Metronome, Sensory, Oral and Sequential Feeding programs, Integrated Listening Systems, and Therapeutic Listening programs.

Anele has been preparing independent occupational therapy assessments for SENDIST Tribunals since 2005 and is the founder of TLC Space, an independent occupational therapy practice in Grayshott, Surrey.

 

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CAROLINE MUNDY

Clinical Assistant

Caroline has been part of the London Assessment and Advisory Practice team since 2018, having previously worked for over 15 years as a Special Educational Needs Teaching Assistant. She has extensive experience of working with children and young people with a wide range of special educational needs and neurodevelopmental differences, and of working collaboratively with families, schools, SENCo’s and other professionals.

As Clinical Assistant, Caroline works within the multidisciplinary team, carrying out observations of children and young people in school and home settings and producing detailed observation reports to inform the team’s assessment findings and recommendations. She has undertaken specialist training including ADI-R, SCERTS and Social Thinking, alongside further training in child psychology and children and young people’s mental health.

What Our Clients Say

We used the LAAP for assessments for our first child and it was a wonderful experience. They use their individual expertise to then look at the child holistically. Their advice is then specific to your child as a person, not just a score on a bit of paper or what people think autism means.

When we realised our second child would also need assessments we went straight to the LAAP. They remembered us and treated us like actual people because they truly do care. I recommend them to any parent looking to better understand their child.

~ EB

I cannot express enough how fantastic the team at LAAP have been.  They’ve enabled me to have a clear understanding of what my son’s needs are...

The findings and reports have enabled a smooth application for an EHCP with comments made on the reports’ comprehensiveness and reasonable recommendations. They continued to hold my hand long after the initial assessment. Worth every penny. Thank you.

~ TS

We used a multi-disciplinary assessment at LAAP and found them all to be professional, knowledgeable, understanding and approachable.

Our son suffers anxiety, and the team were accommodating to his needs in what was an unavoidably difficult experience. The reports we received were comprehensive and inciteful… I would highly recommend using LAAP.

~ TW

We used the LAAP team both for diagnosis and assessment. They carried out a very thorough assessment of needs and produced a really comprehensive report covering Ed Psych, OT, SALT and a school observation.

The entire process was done with great kindness and care and the whole team have incredible expertise in what provision is needed for neurodivergent children to thrive in education.

~ RW

I have used the team at LAAP over a number of years for my two autistic boys… Their reports are very detailed, accurate and there is no comparison!

~ EG

I am so very pleased I first made contact with Juanita and subsequently work with the LAAP team as they certainly fulfilled my expectations and more in relation to the support they were able to offer us as a family.

It has been a pleasure working with the team, I know I will keep in touch with them, and I whole heartedly recommend LAAP 100%.

~ SF

I wish to thank every member of the team for their incredible hard work and supportive insights.

These are frankly the best reports I have read. The are fluid and accessible. They are validating for me to read and truly add the data and background which supports and explains B and my experiences and concerns for him as a parent.

~ SM