Services for Schools

Information Sessions or Professional Development

Dr Gail Byrne is a sought after speaker. She has delivered sessions for parents, teachers and psychologists. Whether it is a Keynote address, a workshop, a parent information session or an interactive forum, a session can be tailored for your needs. Some of the topics Dr Byrne has recently delivered include:

• "Understanding IQ assessments" - Parents and teachers
• "Identifying intellectually able young children" - Kinder and Primary teachers
• "Dealing with Challenging Behaviours in the classroom" - HS teachers
• "The well-rounded child" - Parents and students
• "Dual Exceptionalities (Gifted plus Asperger’s, LD, ADHD)" - Teachers
• "Transition Issues in High School" - parents at various High Schools
• "Transition Issues in High School" - Migrant Information Centres - working with translators into Cantonese and Mandarin
• "Underachievement" - Parent focus, Teacher focus
• "WISC-IV & Binet 5" - Psychologists
• "IQ assessment - an introduction" - Year 11 psychology students
• "Administering the WISC-IV" - Psychologists
• "Differentiating Curricula" - Teachers
• "Curriculum Options and Teaching Practices" - Teachers

School Testing

As well as testing individual students Dr Byrne has tested groups of students in a variety of school settings. Year level testing may include achievement testing or other diagnostic testing for students new to Year 7, as an example, and will assist a school to meet its students’ needs. Selection for accelerated programs in subject-specific areas is also available.

Students with complex needs

Not all schools have the resources or professional expertise to deal with complex students. Students may have disabilities or multiple issues that the school has not had to work with before. As an experienced Head of Individual Differences Dr Byrne is able to assist with writing an Integration Submission; developing an Individual Learning Program (ILP); liaising with parents, or, assisting classroom teachers to ensure that the student is able to access the curriculum.

Psychological Consultancy