Tanya is currently the Course Lead for the MA SEN at UEL. She also teaches on the UG education, early childhood and SEND core modules.  This is a role she has been in for just over 2 years now.  She began her career as a primary teacher and has taught every year group from Nursery to year 6. She took on a number of roles but as a SENCo she was part of the senior leadership team. She then worked for her local authority as a specialist teacher for autism and also for Speech, Language and Communication Differences supporting schools, families and children with training for understanding and support strategies and as such was also an AET trainer.  She then joined the INSET team where she developed and ran training for SENCos and was a part of the team leading the NASENCo.