About the Author

See also: Publications by the Author of Spellzone
Shireen Shuster, the author of the Spellzone English spelling online course is a qualified teacher who initially trained to teach in primary schools. She was a class teacher with this age group for 15 years, in England and in RAF children's schools in Germany and Singapore. During these years she gradually gained an interest in children with literacy difficulties and eventually chose to specialise in this area.

Since then Shireen has been head of a special needs department in a large primary school and has been acting headteacher of a school for children with psychiatric problems. She has worked for a Local Education Authority advisory service, assessing children with learning problems, devising work programmes for them, organising and supervising their individual tuition. This post also involved running in-service courses for teachers on several aspects of special needs and in training teachers to run the new national tests.

More recently, Shireen has specialised almost entirely in dyslexia and has been involved in:


Teacher training:

1960-62 Margaret McMillan College of Education, Bradford

Additional Specialist Qualifications:

1975-76 Open University Certificate in "Reading Development"

1986-87
Leeds University
Post Graduate Advanced Diploma in Education of Children with Special Needs (Distinction)

1992-93
Dyslexia Institute, Harrogate
British Dyslexia Association Diploma in Teaching of Children with Specific Learning Difficulties (Distinction)

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