REID Gavin
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. He is an ambassador for the Helen
Arkell Dyslexia Centre and is also a consultant for the Child Enrichment
Medical Centre in Dubai, the Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) in
Kuwait and for the Institute of Child Education and Psychology Europe (ICEP). He is an educational psychologist and was formerly senior lecturer in
the Department of Educational Studies (formally dept. of Special Education), Moray House School of
Education, University of Edinburgh from 1991-2007.
He is also currently a consultant to the
Open University in the UK and co-founder and director of the Red Rose School
for children with specific learning difficulties in St. Annes on Sea,
Lancashire, UK. He is a visiting educational
psychologist to organizations and schools in Switzerland, the UK, Middle East, Asia and Egypt, and developed the first University
masters course in Dyslexia in the UK in 1992.
Dr. Reid is an educational
psychologist, university lecturer, researcher and author. He has written twenty eight
books on learning, motivation and learning disabilities and lectured to thousands of
professionals and parents in 75 countries. He has also had books published in Polish, Italian,
Arabic, Hebrew, French, Chinese and Slovak.
He is an experienced teacher with
over 10 years experience in the classroom and he wrote the first Masters course in Dyslexia in the UK in 1992 and has
held external examiner appointments at 18 universities worldwide for Ph.D and masters
courses.
He has been a consultant to parent
groups and charitable bodies in the U.K., Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He has appeared in
television and radio documentaries and news editorial on educational matters in
the UK, Poland, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Dubai and New Zealand.
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