Meet the Team
Sarah Beard, Dyslexia Specialist
Sarah is the founder and director of DITTAS. She is a Dyslexia Consultant with extensive experience teaching and assessing learners of all ages, having worked for over twenty-five years supporting dyslexic learners, including many years in a College of Further Education.
Sarah also lectures locally and nationally on the subject of dyslexia and SpLD and has trained over 300 teachers to become Dyslexia Specialists in teaching and assessing students with SpLD (Dyslexia). She was a joint founder of the PAPAA course, a nationally recognised qualification in assessing Access Arrangements.
Sarah offers assessments for all ages and tutors children aged 6-14. She regularly attends training events to supplement her Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and believes that you never stop learning.
https://www.dyslexiaservices.net/
Megan Flood, Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Megan is a specialist speech and language therapist based in the East Sussex/Kent area. She has expertise and special interests in working with children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). She has experience teaching and assessing learners aged 3-19. Currently, she works with children diagnosed with speech and/or language disorders in a specialist school setting. Megan also has experience working in the NHS, providing speech and language therapy services to local primary schools. Her decision to become a speech and language therapist was influenced by her brother's early intervention for a speech delay, which significantly improved his communication skills and inspired her career path.