Board Members

Angus Buchanan – President
Australia
Professor/Head of School at the School of Occupational Therapy, Social Work and Speech Pathology,
Curtin University, Australia
GPO Box U1987, Perth. Western Australia, 6845
a.buchanan@curtin.edu.au

Colleen Adnams – Vice President Africa/Eastern Mediterranean
South Africa
Emeritus Professor of Intellectual Disability
Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town.
colleen.adnams@uct.ac.za

Angela Henderson – Board Secretary
Scotland
Learning Disabilities Data Advisor
angela.henderson@glasgow.ac.uk

Ivan Brown – Vice President, Policy and Education, Director of the Academy, and SIRG Coordinator
Canada
ivan.brown@live.ca

Alice Schippers – Vice-President, Europe
Netherlands
alice.schippers@tiscali.nl

Laurence Taggart
Northern Ireland

Kayla Kostal – Director, Membership, Social Media and Communications
Canada

Peter Langdon
UK

Mindy Scheithauer
United States

Special Interest Research Group Representatives

Aging and Intellectual Disabilities
Chair – Philip McCallion
United States of America
mcclion@albany.edu

Autism Spectrum Disorders
Co-Chair – Ewelina Rydzewska
Scotland
ewelina.rydzewska@glasgow.ac.uk

Co-Chair – Yasamin Bolourian
United States
ybolo002@ucr.edu

Challenging Behaviour and Mental Health
Co-chair – Peter Langdon
United Kingdom
P.E.Langdon@kent.ac.uk

Co-chair – Mindy Scheithauer
United States
mindy.scheithauer@choa.org

Comparative Policy and Practice
Chair – Christine Linehan
Republic of Ireland
christine.linehan@ucd.ie

Down Syndrome
Chair – Rhonda Faragher
Australia
r.faragher@uq.edu.au

Ethics & Intellectual Disability
Co-Chair – Petra Bjorne
Sweden
petra.bjorne@malmo.se

Co-Chair- Ruth Northway
United Kingdom
ruth.northway@southwales.ac.uk

Families
Co-chair – Sandy Magana
United States
maganas@uic.edu

Co-chair – Sarah Dababnah
United States
sdababnah@ssw.umaryland.edu

Health Issues
Co-Chair – Esther Bakker-vanGijssel
Netherlands
Esther.Bakker-vanGijssel@radboudumc.nl

Co-Chair – Jenneken Naaldenberg
Netherlands
Jenneken.Naaldenberg@radboudumc.nl

Inclusive Education
Co-Chair – Tobias Buchner
Austria
tobias.buchner@univie.ac.at

Co-Chair – Deidre Corby
Republic of Ireland
deirdre.corby@dcu.ie

Inclusive Research
Chair – Fionn Angus
Ireland
Fionn.CrombieAngus@dspg.uk

Assistant to the Chair – Jonathan Angus
Ireland
fionnathan.productions@gmail.com

Parenting with Intellectual Disability
Chair – Marjorie Aunos
Canada
maunos.crom@ssss.gouv.qc.ca

Profound Multiple Disabilities
Chair – Bea Maes
Belgium
bea.maes@kuleuven.be

Quality of Life
Co-Chair – Meaghan Edwards
Canada
meaghan.edwards@ucalgary.ca

Co-chair – Keith McVilly
Australia
keith.mcvilly@unimelb.edu.au

Academy

Angela Hassiotis – Academy Director
United Kingdom
a.hassiotis@ucl.ac.uk

Journal Editors

Rhonda Faragher – JPPID Co-Editor
Australian Catholic University, Australia
r.faragher@uq.edu.au

Laurence Taggart – JPPID Co-Editor
Ulster University, United Kingdom
l.taggart@ulster.ac.uk

Professor Vaso Totsika – JIDR Editor
United Kingdom
v.totsika@ucl.ac.uk