About Vaneessa Sudan

Vaneessa Sudan is an Autism Consultant based in Hertfordshire, with extensive knowledge and skills for supporting children and young adults with a diagnosis of Autism or a Social Communication Difficulty. She also works for Enfield Advisory Service for Autism (EASA) in North London as an Advisory Teacher for Autism, delivering nationally recognised Autism Education Trust programmes and providing consultancy to school staff. She is part of a multi-disciplinary team supporting families through the autism diagnostic process.

Vaneessa worked as a Specialist Advisory Teacher for Autism for over seven years for Hertfordshire County Council, including consultancy, staff and parent training, panel meetings and tribunal work. She has also worked as an Inclusion Co-ordinator/SENCo, as a teacher in a Speech and Language unit, and within SEN teaching, as well as a Developing Special Provision Locally (DSPL) Manager.

She holds a B.Ed(Hons) in Primary Education from Sheffield and a Postgraduate Certificate in Autism (children) from Birmingham, alongside training in TEACCH, PECS, EarlyBird, AET programmes, Intensive Interaction, PDA, Elklan, SCERTS and Positive Behaviour Support. Spectrum is recognised as a third party provider for PDA training by the PDA Society.