Gail Therese Gillon is a New Zealand child development academic. She is currently a full professor at the

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and is a Fellow of the

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Academic career

After a 1995

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at titled '' 'The phonological, semantic and syntactic skills of children with specific reading disability' '' at the

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, she moved to the

, rising to full professor. Much of Gillon's research relates to phonological awareness intervention in childhood reading disorders. Notable doctoral students of Gillon include Catherine Moran.

Awards

In March 2021, Gillon was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, recognising that her research "has resulted in transformation of both speech-language therapy and class teaching practices throughout the world... and is positively enhancing the well-being of thousands of children and their whānau in Aotearoa New Zealand."

Selected works

* Gillon, Gail T. Phonological awareness: From research to practice. Guilford Publications, 2017. * Gillon, Gail T. "The efficacy of phonological awareness intervention for children with spoken language impairment." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 31, no. 2 (2000): 126–141. * Gillon, Gail T. "Facilitating phoneme awareness development in 3-and 4-year-old children with speech impairment." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 36, no. 4 (2005): 308–324. * Gillon, Gail T. "Follow‐up study investigating the benefits of phonological awareness intervention for children with spoken language impairment." International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 37, no. 4 (2002): 381–400. * Sutherland, Dean, and Gail T. Gillon. "Assessment of phonological representations in children with speech impairment." Language, speech, and hearing services in schools 36, no. 4 (2005): 294–307. * van Bysterveldt, Anne K., Gail T. Gillon, and Catherine Moran. "Enhancing phonological awareness and letter knowledge in preschool children with Down syndrome." International Journal of Disability, Development and Education 53, no. 3 (2006): 301–329.

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