Roslyn Neilson

Dr Roslyn Neilson is a Private Speech-Language Pathologist, specialising in children with reading difficulties. She completed a Ph.D. in 1998 at the University of Wollongong on the topic of Phonological Awareness and Word Recognition Skills in Children with Reading Difficulties.

She has retired from her private clinical practice, but still works in local schools and schools in remote Indigenous communities, provides university lectures and professional in- services, and devotes time to research. This research has involved the development of several phonological awareness assessment tools, including the Sutherland Phonological Awareness Test-Revised (SPAT-R), the School Entry Alphabetic and Phonological Awareness Readiness Test (SEAPART), the Astronaut Invented Spelling Test-2 (AIST-2) and the Foundations of Early Literacy Assessment (FELA).