Child Development Network

I have undergraduate, post graduate and doctoral qualifications in Education and Literacy and Learning Disability.

In April 1998, after several years of teaching, I commenced the Educational Consultancy known as Literacy Care. For the past 5 years the services of Literacy Care have been provided as part of the Child Development Network.

As a clinical educator I can continue in my essential role as a teacher as well as enjoy the great privilege of operating within a multidisciplinary environment.

I believe in and support the notion of multidisciplinary treatment for learning and developmental disorders. A highly collaborative and cooperative team, a well designed treatment plan with multiple participants and a common area of operations provides even the most challenged student with the greatest chance of success.

My particular interest is in scientific-evidenced based literacy interventions which research shows can not only skill a person but can impact on the very constitutional reason for the disability. Learning Disabilities may not be curable in the 'neurological' sense but they can be effectively managed so as children with such difficulties will not only survive but thrive.