About Us...
John Everatt, BSc, PhD
Dr Everatt is a leading researcher in the field of literacy and dyslexia. He
has published over 50 journal papers and book chapters in the areas of literacy
and dyslexia as well as editing two books on these topics and being on the
editorial board of the journal Dyslexia.
Peter Brooks, M.Sc., P.G.C.E., C.Psychol., A.F.B.Ps.S
Peter Brooks has
worked as an Educational Psychologist for fifteen years in a local education
authority. This involved
responsibility for all children within an area and work within most sectors of
special education including dyslexia/specific learning difficulties (in which
he was specialist psychologist), moderate and severe learning difficulties,
sensory and physical handicaps, and emotional and behaviour difficulties.
He was Principal Educational Psychologist of the Helen Arkell Dyslexia
Centre from 1992 to 1999. He
operates an extensive private clinical practice.
He has lectured to
many groups including
London, Surrey and
Southampton
Universities
, and international conferences and training programmes.
He has a particular
interest in dyslexia, and has undertaken research with
Professor Margaret Snowling on teaching strategies and severe dyslexics.
He managed a research project into teaching spellings to 6 to 7 year old
children who were at risk of literacy failure.
This major project completed in 1998, and was funded through the
Department for Education and Employment.
Findings included work linking at-risk children’s learning strategies to their
cognitive development, and impressive results in applying individual learning
strategies across all children in mainstream schools.
Current interests include further work upon teaching strategies, the use
of IT resources in dyslexia, mathematics and measures of phonology.
He is a member of a research team at the
University of
Surrey
under Dr. John Everatt with a particular interest in literacy and mathematical
development, and dyslexia.
Publications have
included a range of educational and psychological papers, the Helen Arkell
Spelling Test, the Adult Reading Test, an adult computer-based screening test,
and contributing author to the Phonological Assessment Battery.
Claire Zabell BSc Hons, PhD, C.Psychol.
Dr Zabell graduated with first class honours in her initial degree in Cognitive
Science from the University of Westminster. She recently completed her PhD at
the University of Surrey that included research into the identification of
dyslexia in adults. She has co-written one published peer-reviewed paper, and
has presented a paper at the BDA International Conference in 2001. Claire
currently works with the multi-disciplinary team at Avon House Dyslexia Centre,
providing Psychological Assessments for dyslexics of all ages.
Dr Weeks worked as a Health Visitor
advising on developmental issues for 10 years. She left the NHS to study
Psychology at Surrey University where she obtained a First Class degree and
undertook a PhD on enhancing the learning of spellings in dyslexic individuals.
Sally has undertaken research for
the Department for Education and Employment and has co-written many papers on
issues relating to the learning of spelling. She has presented papers both in
the UK and abroad on dyslexia and spelling as well as the development of
cognitive assessment tests. She is currently working as a consulting
psychologist at the Dyslexia Institute and running a private practice in which
she specialises in assessing adults in further education and employment.
Paul Giller BSc (Hons), MCP, MCAD, MCSD.NET.
Paul Giller is the Director of InnerCOM Ltd., the company responsible for the
technical development of the test-platform. He brings over 15 years IT
development experience to the team. With clients including MasterCard, Bank of
New York, Barclay’s Capital, and ABN-Amro. InnerCOM’s involvement and close
partnership with Microsoft has provided access to the very latest technology
and helped to ensure the test-platform meets the highest technical standards.
