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David Kinnane

B.Bus, LLB (Hons.), MSLP, CPSP
SPELD NSW Board Member

David Kinnane joined the SPELD NSW Board in 2019. David runs an independent speech, language and reading clinic Banter Speech & Language based in Sydney.

“Children and adults who struggle to read miss out on many of the opportunities good readers take for granted. Helping people to learn to read is important work – too important to waste time, energy and money on false ideas and programs that don’t work.” David Kinnane

He blogs regularly about language and literacy and authored a number of ebooks including ‘Reading Problems and What to do About Them.’

David holds a Master of Speech Language Pathology from the University of Sydney and is an elected member of Speech Pathology Australia’s Ethics Board. David is passionate about helping people achieve their academic, work and life goals.

Mohua Mukherjee

MAICD, FGIA, FCG

SPELD NSW Board Member

Mohua has held senior leadership roles in several organisations and is an experienced non-executive director.
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Professor Saskia Kohnen

SPELD NSW Board Member

Saskia Kohnen joined the SPELD NSW board in late 2022. Saskia has a long history of supporting people with literacy difficulties, their teachers, tutors and clinicians.  A Professor at ACU’s Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy, Saskia conducts research on how children learn to read and spell, what can complicate this process and how to assess and intervene for reading and spelling difficulties. Her work has resulted in many peer-reviewed publications as well as tests used by teachers, clinicians, tutors and researchers.
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Troy Verey

SPELD NSW Board Member

Troy is a deputy principal at Marsden Road Public School (Liverpool NSW) and has over 10 years of teaching and leadership experience in English and Australian schools. His professional interests focus on shifting the culture of education from one based on ideologies to one based on science, and his current projects include developing teacher curriculum content knowledge, cultivating evidence-based pedagogy and improving assessment practices for literacy and numeracy.
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Greg McLachlan

Master of Educational Administration (UNSW), Bachelor of Arts, Diploma In Teaching

SPELD NSW Board Secretary

Greg joined the board in late 2020. He has had an extensive career in education holding leadership roles at a range of levels including twenty years as a principal in the public system. As a teacher and an educational leader, supporting children to maximise their abilities is at the centre of his beliefs.
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Ingrid King

LLM (Hons) (Casework) (UTS), BA/LLB (ANU)

SPELD NSW Board Member

Ingrid is a barrister at the NSW Bar and has family member with complex learning difficulties so has observed the frustrations of a person with learning difficulties within an education system that is not always responsive to their needs.
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Jackie Connor

MAICD | Dip Teach

SPELD NSW Board Member

Trained as an Early Childhood Educator Jackie moved into the printing industry. As a business owner Jackie brings a wealth of governance and strategic business skills to SPELD NSW.
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David Rowlinson

B.Arch (Hons), MMktg, MBA

SPELD NSW Treasurer

David joined the board in November 2015. As Campaign Manager for Planet Ark David brings not-for-profit management experience to his role as SPELD NSW Treasurer.
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Rhonda Filmer

BA GradDipEd, COGE M. EdAdmin (UNSW)

SPELD NSW Chair

Gifted Education Consultant and Teacher, Rhonda is the Principal Consultant at Twice Exceptional Educational Consultancy and has a specialist interest in ADHD.
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