Special Educational Needs

Dr Lindsay Peer CBE, practitioner psychologist, international speaker, author and expert witness, and is widely recognised as an expert in the range of Specific Learning Difficulties, special educational needs and mainstream education. In 2002, she was appointed CBE for services to Education and Dyslexia. She is a Patron of GroOops, a charity dedicated to creating an emotionally healthy, dyslexia aware world. In 2011, she was presented with an Outstanding Lifetime Academic Achievement Award by the British Dyslexia Association. In 2017, she won a Science Council Chartered Scientist CPD Commendation. She is an Associate Fellow and Chartered Scientist of the British Psychological Society, and Fellow of both the International Academy of Research in Learning Disabilities and the Royal Society of Arts. She is a member of the Association of Child Psychologists in Private Practice and of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. She is registered to practice with the Health and Care Professions Council.
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She held the posts of Education Director and Deputy CEO of the BDA. She has had many years' experience as a teacher, teacher trainer and SENCo. Lindsay has been a keynote speaker in the UK, USA, India, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Israel, Iceland, Norway, Italy, Spain, Majorca, Greece, South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Cyprus, the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. She has further advised governments, policy makers, lawyers, adults, schools, psychologists, therapists and parents. She has published a considerable body of material both theoretical and practical, and published the first ground-breaking book linking Glue Ear with Dyslexia.

Her email address is: lindsay@peergordonassociates.co.uk and her website is: www.peergordonassociates.co.uk.

Dr. Gavin Reid is an international consultant and psychologist with consultancies in Canada, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia and Australasia. He was Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, in the Department of Education and Counseling Psychology and Special Education in 2007 and 2010.
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He is chair of the British Dyslexia Association Accreditation Board and an ambassador for the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre in the UK and is a Consultant/Psychologist for the Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) in Kuwait and the Lighthouse Learning Centre in Cairo. He is also a director of the Red Rose School for children with specific learning difficulties in St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, UK.

He was formerly senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies (formally Department of Special Education), Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, from 1991 to 2007. He has written 34 books on learning, motivation and dyslexia and lectured to thousands of professionals and parents in 75 countries. Some of his books have been published in Polish, Italian, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, French, Latvian and Slovak. He is an experienced teacher with over ten years' experience in the classroom and has held external examiner appointments at 20 universities worldwide for PhD and masters' courses. He resides in Vancouver and Edinburgh.

His email is gavinreid66@gmail.com and his website is: www.drgavinreid.com