Louise Maggs is a registered Speech and Language Therapist with over ten years' experience working with children and adults with speech, language and social communication difficulties. Louise began her career working in residential schools for children and young adults with autism, implementing the PECS protocol over a 24-hour curriculum. Since joining Pyramid Louise has supported parents, teachers and therapists to successfully implement PECS and the Pyramid Approach to Education in homes, schools, residential care settings and in the community. Louise has had great success in supporting schools to embed the Pyramid Approach to Education across their whole curriculum, resulting in them gaining official certification from Pyramid. Since working for Pyramid Louise developed a greater interest in applied behaviour analysis and went on to achieve an MSc in Applied Behaviour Analysis and Therapy, her final dissertation investigating the validity of parent training in implementing PECS. As Clinical Director of Pyramid UK Louise has managerial responsibility and clinical oversight of the whole consultant team, ensuring a consistently high level of training and consultation services. Louise has a wealth of experience in working with individuals with communication difficulties and a passion for teaching functional skills within the curriculum.

Since completing an undergraduate degree in psychology at Plymouth University, Andy initially spent three years working as a Residential Social Worker. During this time he worked in a variety of settings working with adults with mental health issues and severe learning difficulties to teenagers with Autism. He supported a wide range of individual needs across a 24 hour curriculum, focusing largely on developing and implementing independence skills programmes.

In 2001 Andy graduated from Bath Spa University with a PGCE and spent four years teaching in mainstream primary schools. As a KS1 teacher Andy gained valuable experience of implementing, assessing and reviewing the national curriculum strategies and targets, alongside developing classroom management skills.

From 2005 Andy specialised in working in Special Educational Needs schools. Since then has worked with children across all key stages with a wide array of complex needs, including PMLD, MLD, Emotional Behavioural Difficulties, and Autism. During his time working at a setting for pupils with emtional and behavioural difficulties Andy became very experienced with managing challenging behaviours and has a particular interest in developing individual and classroom management techniques. Andy has undertaken further training in the implementation of Team Teach, SCIPP, and TCI crisis management techniques.

Whilst working within Autism specific schools, Andy has used PECS as an integral part of teaching functional communication skills. Andy joined Pyramid in 2013 and is especially interested in promoting effective teaching practises whilst working with challenging behaviour, employing PECS as a means of developing communication skills.