OBE, BA (Hons), CPsychol, AFBPsS
Roles
- Director of Science and Research
- Chief Scientist
- Emeritus Professor of Developmental Disability, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth,
UK
Responsibilities
Our services and research team is led by Professor Sue Buckley, the Trust's founder and one of the world's
leading researchers in the education and development of children with Down syndrome.
Sue's unique contribution to scientific understanding has been
recognised in the following awards:
- the inaugural scientific award at the first international Biennial Scientific Conference on Down Syndrome
in 1998
- an OBE for her services to special needs education in the Queen's Birthday Honours List 2004
- the Theodore D Tjossen Research Award by the National Down Syndrome Congress in the USA in 2005
Background
Sue Buckley is a Chartered Psychologist with over 30 years of experience in the field of developmental
disability. Sue is knowledgeable about most aspects of the development of children and adolescents with
Down syndrome, but her special area of expertise is cognitive development, particularly language, literacy
and memory development.
Sue also has first hand experience of many of the issues that affect families as the eldest of her three
children, Roberta, has Down syndrome and was adopted into Sue's family when a baby. Roberta is now
an adult.