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.

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."

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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."

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53, no. 3 (2006): 301–329.

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