Gail Gillon

Gail Therese Gillon
Alma mater	University of Queensland
Scientific career
Fields	Child development
Institutions	University of Canterbury
Thesis	The phonological, semantic and syntactic skills of children with specific reading disability  (1995)

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

Academic career

After a 1995 PhD at titled 'The phonological, semantic and syntactic skills of children with specific reading disability' at the University of Queensland, she moved to the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor.

Much of Gillon's research relates to phonological awareness intervention in childhood reading disorders.

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.

External links

• Gail Gillon publications indexed by Google Scholar