Oliver Lewis has 18 years’ experience of assessing and supporting disabled individuals. Oliver has assessed and supported individuals with a range of conditions across the whole field of disabilities within private, business and educational environments. He has worked with individuals who have wide ranging issues including: visual impairments, physical disabilities, profound and multiple learning difficulties, autism, speech language and communication needs, hearing impairments, behavioural emotional and social difficulties. Oliver’s interest in assistive technologies started whilst working in the 3rd sector for a national charity. These experiences enabled Oliver to support and train local charities across the country in assessment skills. Working with a large variety of specialist charities has enabled Oliver to build a great depth of experience from assessing severely disabled limited life children to the elderly. Oliver has helped set up and run a variety of projects to provide assessments to individuals with a wide variety of conditions.
Oliver has previously been the Regional Manager for the Disabled Students Allowance managing 14 assessment centres. The position involved assessing students and training assessors to produce reports to justify funding. Oliver has also been a freelance assessor for over 4 years assessing disabled individuals in education, business and supporting individuals in their own home.
Oliver holds an Enhanced Disclosure Certificate from the Criminal Records Bureau.