What is SASC?

SpLD Assessment Standards Committee

This steering committee is a standard-setting group concerned with the diagnostic assessment of specific learning difficulties in an educational setting. The authority for this committee and its remit stem from the SpLD Working Group 2005/DfES Guidelines. The committee seeks to extend the principles of good practice contained in the Guidelines across all age ranges and throughout the profession

SASC aims to

• implement the training recommendations of the SpLD Working Group 2005/DfES Guidelines
• promote and monitor standards of SpLD assessor training relating to all age ranges
• promote continuing professional development in SpLD assessment
• advise on models of good practice in this continuing professional development
• monitor standards of this continuing professional development
• provide a forum for sharing good practice from a range of interested bodies
• draw on expertise across the sector provide guidance on training, implementation of standards
• oversee and approve processes of awarding SpLD Assessment Practising Certificates maintain list of approved evaluators for APL/APE applications
• provide training for evaluators to approve courses as meeting standards of SpLD assessor training.

This group encompasses the SpLD Test Evaluation Committee which serves to

• evaluate test tools
• review the approved/recommended tests of the SpLD Working Group 2005/DfES
• provide a forum for sharing good practice from a range of interested bodies
• draw on expertise across the sector
• maintain list of approved testing tools for SpLDs in higher education

• 20-9-10 Updated guidance re BAS and WISC