Jane Green MBE, FCCT, MA Ed. ex.Asst. Headteacher, Adv.Dip.Ed. (Child Dev.), PGCE Sec. QTS, BSc (HONS) Psych.OU / founder/Chair of SEDSConnective the foremost pioneering user-led charity for symptomatic hypermobility and neurodivergence.
Despite leaving school early, only 2 qualifications, considered dim and a hypochondriac, she pursued self-study as a single parent of 2 children one very disabled,aged 39 in 1999, doing her online OU degree in Psychology, becoming a teacher, later LA adviser, Autism Accreditation Assessor, Assistant Headteacher, specialising in Autism, ADHD, Dyspraxia SEND education nationally. She had to medically retire early only then being allowed to have her diagnoses she so often wanted and needed earlier. She feels lucky to be alive after 2 very difficult years.
In 2018 she founded/Chair of SEDSConnective the foremost pioneering user-led charity for symptomatic hypermobility and neurodivergence with no money, no connections and hardly any belief in a village. It is now registered across the UK, helped save lives and has global reach.
She has held leadership roles as a Non-Executive Director/advisor first autistic trustee at SCIE and for the coproduction steering board, NICE, NHS England, NIHR, WAGE, and Skills for Care. Late Cochair for the strategic oversight group of the Oliver MMT. Jane has contributed to education policy, travel policies at airports, championed school toolkits, co-authored the first peer-reviewed paper on neurodivergence and hypermobility https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13575279.2022.2149471 and is a regular speaker at think tanks, key note at the Global Learning Conf. 2023 and international conferences on education, health all age, psychiatry conferences.
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