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Inclusive Assessment Organisations
At Cognassist, we strongly believe in promoting social mobility and upholding principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Our Commitment
We are committed to compliance with the Equality Act 2010 and ensuring that all individuals have an equal opportunity to showcase their knowledge, skills, and behaviours. We know the value of neurodiversity and are dedicated to creating a level playing field for neurodiverse learners, where they can demonstrate their abilities without facing any unfair disadvantage.
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The following Awarding Organisations have partnered with Cognassist to accept our Cognitive Diversity Assessment Report as evidence in their judgement of adjustments. These are the organisations demonstrating and leading the way for innovation and inclusion. Cognassist does not make or infer any decisions and all decisions are the right of the AO.
Because of shared value around social mobility and a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and compliance to the Equality Act 2010. We believe in creating a fair playing field for neurodiverse learners to demonstrate their knowledge skills and behaviours without fear of disadvantage.
Our Science
Cognassist is an evidence-based neuro-inclusion platform, we are one of the only digital solutions globally that is accepted for both time based and non-time based reasonable adjustments. Our performance-based assessment has been through five stages of validity and research piloting with hundreds of participants to meet the gold standard of psychometrics.
Meet our Independent Scientific Advisory Board:
John R Crawford is a Professor in the School of Psychology, College of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College, University of Aberdeen. He has published over 170 scientific papers, with over 55,000 citations. Professor Crawford holds honorary appointments as a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist and Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Grampian NHS and is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
Professor John R Crawford
Professor Emeritus, Aberdeen University
Dr Clive Skilbeck is a UK-trained chartered clinical psychologist and clinical neuropsychologist, with degrees from Liverpool University and a PhD from Plymouth University. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Australian Psychological Society and College of Clinical Neuropsychologists. Dr Skilbeck was heavily involved in the initial design and development of Cognassist.
Dr. Clive Skilbeck
Clinical Neuropsychologist Consultant
Dr John Welch is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist and Practitioner Clinical Neuropsychologist, who has held the roles of Top-Grade Psychologist and Principal Psychologist at Newcastle upon-Tyne NHS Health Authority. He is an expert witness for the NHS and private practices and Chair of the Executive Committee of the Division of Neuropsychological B.P.S. Dr Welch also contributed to our development from the start.
Dr. John Welch
Clinical Neuropsychologist Consultant
Chris Petkov is Professor of Comparative Neuropsychology at Newcastle University, Professor and Vice Chair for Research at University of Iowa, and Editor-in-Chief of Current Research in Neurobiology journal. He holds Wellcome Trust Investigator and European Research Council awards. His research aims to advance scientific knowledge on the neurobiology of cognition and communication.
Professor Chris Petkov
Neuropsychology Professor at Newcastle University
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