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Sara Christie

Sara Christie is the co-founder and director of Chuckle Productions - (The Boss) Sara combines all aspects of her professional experience in specialist teaching and physiotherapy as a foundation for the vision of Chuckle, working with families providing a holistic approach to support and intervention. Sara is creative, passionate, truly dedicated and believes that every child should get the chance to learn in a fun interactive way. Sara is a HCPC registered paediatric physiotherapist and specialist teacher holding a SASC Practicing Certificate for assessment. As a Senior Paediatric Physiotherapist … Devised with a dietician colleague and a £100,000 grant, the Body Factory CD ROM, which was published nationally to provide an interactive tool to promote diet and physical development with children and young people and this is used in health centres and schools across the UK.  Together with two dyspraxia team colleagues and funding from the Staffordshire LEA they devised the Development of Early Motor Skills (DEMS) project, which was rolled out to primary schools across Staffordshire and later being sold and published to the LDA as the Jungle Journey. It is now sold internationally winning both health and education awards for its innovative approach to encouraging physical, cognitive and social development for 4 and 5 year olds within schools. Dyslexia Action … Developed and delivered a train the trainer programme on hidden disabilities for the Learning Skills Council and project managed the national roll out to all OLASS providers for prisons. Project managed a European Social Funded project with key partners delivering assessment and support to those in custody and on probation, for the West Midlands, West Mercia and Warwickshire area. Developed the Moodle e-learning site for the train the trainer programme on hidden disabilities, covering Autism, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. Developed with ICAN a screening tool based on the Hidden Disabilities Questionnaire for youth offending teams, which was rolled out nationally. On the advisory panel of the Department of Health for learning difficulties/disabilities in the judiciary system. Managed a successful centre assessing, teaching and training adults and children with Dyslexia and other hidden disabilities, leading a team of six staff. Experience in the Arts … Sara founded her own dance school which had over 150 pupils and ran for over 10 years, and as co-director of a Youth Community Theatre, produced over 50 plays and musical theatre productions in different settings from schools, to mainstream theatre as well as outdoor productions. She is busy devising an Arts branch for Chuckle Productions, incorporating the Chuckle Stars our Musical Theatre Special needs group, and our other music and dance sessions.