Check out Kevin Wheldalls Blog on reading, books, education and more. From his blog Kevin Wheldall is an Emeritus Professor of Macquarie University. Prior to his retirement at the end of 2011, he served as Professor and Director of Macquarie University Special Education Centre (MUSEC) for over twenty years. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, the International Academy for Research in Learning Disabilities, the British Psychological Society and the College of Preceptors (Teachers). In 1995, he established the MultiLit (Making Up Lost Time In Literacy) Initiative, to research and develop intensive literacy interventions for low-progress readers. Since 2006, Wheldall has also been the Director of the MultiLit Research Unit and is the Chairman of the Board of MultiLit Pty Ltd, a university spin-off company. See multilit. He has researched and written extensively in the area of learning and behaviour difficulties, with particular emphasis on classroom behaviour management and helping low-progress readers, and has acted as an adviser to both state and federal government education bodies. On Australia Day 2011, he was appointed a Member (AM) in the Order of Australia “for service to education as an academic and researcher, particularly in the areas of learning and behavioural difficulties, and through the design and implementation of innovative literacy programs”. Some of his recent blogs that might be of particular interest: Small Bangs for Big Bucks: The long term efficacy of Reading Recovery kevinwheldall/2013/02/small-bangs-for-big-bucks-long-term.html and Vital signs in reading kevinwheldall/2013/11/vital-signs-in-reading.html
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