|  Dr
Charles Weedon trained as a teacher at Moray House College
of Education, Edinburgh, and subsequently gained his MEd (with Distinction)
at the University of Edinburgh. He won a research prize from the
Scottish Council for Research in Education for his dissertation,
The Diagnosis of Writing Skills, before obtaining his Diploma in
Special Educational Needs at Moray House.
After five years in the mainstream classroom, teaching English
and maths at high schools in Shetland and Fife, Charles followed
his growing interest in learning difficulties and special educational
needs, going on to become a Principal Teacher of Learning Support
in 1984, and gaining his PhD at the Open University with a thesis
on Expository Reading in Schools: the nature of pupils' difficulties
in learning from text. Recently retired as Head of Learning
Support at George Watson's College, Edinburgh, he now works part-time as the school's educational psychologist, while pursuing research into the impact of movement therapies upon learning difficulties, and aspects of nutritional interventions. |
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Whilst working with his own pupils in
school, Charles has also pursued a variety of research and professional
development interests, including research into specific learning
difficulties in mathematics; devising and delivering an MEd unit
on specific learning difficulties (with the Institute of Education,
University of Stirling); and developing, diagnostic assessments.
Charles was elected to Associate Fellowship of the British Psychological
Society in 1997.
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Dr Gavin Reid was a senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh, from 1991 to 2007, and is now a consultant on learning disabilities at the Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) based in Kuwait. His remit at CCET is to take a leading role in the development of initiatives in teacher training, assessment and intervention, with the objectives of removing barriers to inclusion and empowering individuals with learning disabilities to achieve their full potential.
Gavin is also educational psychologist to REACH Learning Center in North Vancouver, Canada, and a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada, where he runs graduate courses in learning disabilities. He is also a director and consultant to the Red Rose School for children with specific learning difficulties in St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, and a trainer with Learning Works International in the UK
He has made over 700 conference and seminar presentations in over 50 countries, and currently has 21 books in print in the fields of dyslexia, literacy, learning styles and motivation and classroom management. He wrote and developed the first Masters course in Specific Learning Difficulties in the UK in 1993, and many of his books are used as course texts in courses throughout the UK and in many other countries. He has been invited to be external examiner at fifteen universities worldwide for PhD candidates and masters courses.
Gavin was a member of the British Dyslexia Association Teacher Training Accreditation Board from 1996 to 2007 and was also overseas patron for the Learning and Behaviour Charitable Trust in New Zealand. He is currently the international consultant for the Canadian Academy of Therapeutic Tutors and is advisor to the Literacy Commission in Scotland . |
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