Candace Donovan
Place Category: Autism providers, East and Online Pilot Participants
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Candace has a degree in Maths and Physics from Canada and started her professional career as a computer programmer, which included training users on the databases she designed and built. Her passion for teaching led to working as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, for more than a decade throughout South Korea, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia.During this time, she encountered students with learning challenges which lead to her interest in neurodiversity. While in Saudi, she met a girl who completed the Davis Dyslexia program. Seeing her reading ability and confidence grow so rapidly, Candace was inspired to explore the Davis program. She worked for five years as an educational consultant in Saudi Arabia specialising in SEND.
She became a licensed Davis dyslexia facilitator in 2018, then went on to become a Davis autism facilitator in 2021. Currently, she is completing her Master’s in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience in Cambridge and doing her dissertation on auditory orientation to support SEND individuals. Her motivation to study neuroscience comes from her innate curiosity to better understand neurodiversity from a neurological point-of-view.