The staff at the Centre have particular expertise in appreciating the reality of ADHD, and the strong possibility of the vulnerability created by ADHD progressing in one way or another.

The staff list includes:

• Dr Geoff Kewley MB BS FRCP FRCPCH FRACP DCH
 
Dr Geoff Kewley is a Consultant Paediatrician specialising in the management of children with neurodevelopmental, behavioural and learning difficulties, especially Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and related issues.  In 1993, after 16 years as a Consultant Paediatrician in Australia and 4 as a Consultant Paediatrician in the NHS in the UK, he established the Learning Assessment & Neurocare Centre in Horsham, West Sussex, from concern at the lack of availability of effective services for such conditions. 

Dr Kewley has written several books.  These include a book on general paediatrics entitled ‘Common Paediatric Problems’.  More recently he has published three books on AD/HD, an initial landmark book first published in 1999 entitled ‘AD/HD: Recognition, Reality and Resolution’.  More recently he has published two books for teachers, the first: ‘AD/HD what can teachers do?’ published by David Fulton in 2005, having first been published by LAC Press in 1999; and ‘100 ideas for supporting pupils with AD/HD’ in March 2008 in conjunction with Mrs Pauline Latham, Centre Manager at LANC.

He chairs the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health special interest group on AD/HD and related neurodevelopmental difficulties – the George Still Forum.  Over the years he has been very involved in encouraging appropriate, evidence-based professional awareness and in lecturing and writing widely on the conditions.  He places great emphasis on the importance of understanding the reality of the challenges faced by children with AD/HD and their families and in working towards more appropriate service provision for children’s mental health and educational services.

• Mr Nigel Humphrey BA(Hons) MSc – Clinical Psychologist

Mr Nigel Humphrey trained in South Africa and Zimbabwe and operated his own clinical practice with specialism in AD/HD before joining the Centre in 2002.  Mr Humphrey collates the service for adolescents and adults with AD/HD, a clinic which has grown exponentially in the last few years.  He is also involved in the assessment and management of children with neurodevelopmental difficulties and also undertakes counselling and cognitive evaluations.

• Dr Rebecca Shaw   MA (Hons) Psychology, PhD Psychology, Clin Psy D. 

Dr Shaw runs the satellite clinic in Stratford-on-Avon.  Dr Shaw is a chartered clinical psychologist with expertise in the assessment and multiprofessional management of children and adults with ADHD and related issues, emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties.  She also has a PhD in AD/HD and its relationship to executive functions.  She previously worked at the LANC as school liaison officer and research assistant.  Her research interests include the theories of ADHD, the use of computers for children with ADHD and the genetic syndromes that may be associated with ADHD.

• Dr David Bracher  EdD(EdPsych) CPsychol AFBPsS

Educational Psychologist, who has worked as a Local Education Authority Educational Psychologist.  He has a Doctorate in Educational Psychology from the University of Bristol gained in connection with the nature of exclusion from school and aspects of schools as organisations in terms of how they are likely to be more successful in meeting the needs of individuals at risk of permanent exclusion.  An Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Editorial Board of Educational and Child Psychology, he is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Inaura (www.inaura.net).  He has also worked as a tutor and lecturer at the University of Bristol.  Currently, Dr Bracher is practising as an independent Chartered Educational Psychologist, also carrying out specialist assessments of pupils and adults with specific learning difficulties.

• Jean Kydd  RGN RHV

Mrs Kydd, Practice Nurse and Coach, is a Registered General Nurse and Health Visitor, and AD/HD/ASD Specialist Coach.  She is also trained in Neurolinguistic Programming.  She has worked previously for 30 years as a Health Visitor in the NHS and in recent years has become increasingly involved through that role in the management of children with AD/HD and related conditions. 

• Zara Harris  MSc Dip COT SROT OTR

Mrs Harris is an Occupational Therapist and works part-time at the Centre to assess children and adults with AD/HD and associated developmental coordination difficulties.   She has a Masters degree in AD/HD and workplace and relationship difficulties, which was based on data obtained from the LANC.  She originally trained and worked in the UK at the Maudsley Hospital and now works for a special needs school in Washington, USA, spending time at the LANC every three months.  She has particular expertise in developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia) and in people with executive function difficulties, i.e. problems with planning, organisation and time management.

• Pauline Latham

Mrs Latham is the Deputy Director/Centre Manager at the LANC.  She has been a member of staff since inception and instrumental in the formation of the LANC.  She has a wide role in the day-to-day management and development of the Centre, in its being kept at the forefront of public and professional awareness, in provision of information about the clinic, and participating in policy and procedure writing.  She has personal experience of AD/HD and related conditions and has also written widely on AD/HD, particularly surrounding issues related to the impact on the family and lectures to a range of audiences in health, education and social care on the subject to facilitate a wider understanding of these issues and the need for appropriate support for sufferers and their families.