Lindsay Peer

Dr Lindsay Peer CBE, Educational and Chartered Psychologist, International Speaker, Author and Expert Witness, Lindsay is widely recognised as an expert in the range of specific learning difficulties, SEN and mainstream education. In 2002 she was appointed CBE for services to Education and Dyslexia. In 2011 she was awarded the Outstanding Lifetime Academic Achievement Award by the British Dyslexia Association (BDA). She is Patron of GroOops, a charity dedicated to creating an emotionally healthy dyslexia aware world. She has lectured extensively as keynote speaker internationally since the late 1980s and advises governments, trade unions, policy makers, lawyers, adults, schools, psychologists, therapists and parents. She is an Associate Fellow and Chartered Scientist of the British Psychological Society and a Fellow of both the International Academy of Research in Learning Disabilities and the Royal Society of Arts. She is a member of the Association of Child Psychologists in Private Practice and of the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health (ACAMH). She is registered to practice with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). She has been a keynote speaker in the UK, USA, India, Sweden, Belgium, Finland, Israel, Iceland, Norway, Italy, Spain, Majorca, Greece, South Africa, Botswana, Swaziland, Cyprus, the Czech Republic and Holland.

She held the posts of Education Director and Deputy CEO of the BDA until 2003. She has many years' experience as a teacher, teacher trainer and SENCo. She has published a considerable body of material both theoretical and practical and published the first ground-breaking book linking aGlue Eara with Dyslexia. She assesses children, students and adults facing challenges in learning.

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