Professor Doctor YAIR SCHIFTAN
Professor of Special Needs Academy of the University of Warsaw, Poland
Professor of Special Education of the University of Zagreb, Croatia
Inventor of the vibro- acoustic Therapy MUSICA MEDICA.
President of Academia MUSICA MEDICA in Switzerland
Helen L. Irlen, MA, LMFT
Founder & Executive Director: Irlen Institute International Headquarters
Helen L. Irlen is an internationally recognized educator, researcher, therapist,
scholar, and expert in the area of visual-perceptual problems. She is a graduate
of Cornell University. Ms. Irlen has been in the field of education for the past
30 years. Her background includes 15 years as a School Psychologist, 30 years
as a Child and Family Therapist, Educational Therapist, founder and Director of
the Adult Learning Disabilities Program and Assistant Professor of Adult
Learning Disabilities at California State University/Long Beach, instructor in
psychology at Cornell University, and research assistant at Cornell.
She has been recognized for her dedication to working with children and
adults and is listed in Who’s Who in California, Who’s Who in Asia and the
Pacific Nations, International Woman of the Year (1999-2000), International
Who’s Who of Professionals, Kingston’s National Registry of Who’s Who, and
the Dictionary of International Biography.
Over 20 years ago, research directed by Helen Irlen under a federal research
grant studied methods of helping children and adults with reading and
learning disabilities. One important discovery was that a subgroup of
individuals showed a marked improvement in their reading ability when
reading material was covered by colored acetate sheets. For the next five
years, Ms. Irlen worked on refining her discovery, developing diagnostic
testing instruments, and patenting a set of colored filters.
Peter Blythe, Ph.D.
Peter Blythe is the Director of the Institute for Neuro-Physiological Psychology
in Chester, England. The Institute sponsors the yearly International Conference
of Neuro-Developmental Delay In Children With Specific Learning Difficulties.
This event brings together scientists in many different fields of expertise. It is
now in its thirteenth year.
The Institute has affiliatees in many different countries which use the specific
techniques of reflex stimulation/inhibition developed at the Institute. While
children are seen and counselled at INPP Peter Blythe and Sally Goddard train
teachers at monthly workshops how to spot neuro-developmental delay in
students who have difficulties learning and teach tech techniques which can
be used in the classroom to ensure that all children have the neurological
readiness to function successfully.
In his early professional life, Peter Blythe was divided into working as a
therapist with adults manifesting all the symptoms of neuroses, and working
with children of near average, average or above average intelligence who
underachieve educationally. For a number of years he was a senior lecturer in
psychology at a College of Education. In addition to having published many
papers in the field of physiological psychology, Peter Blythe is the author of
Hypnotism: Its Power and Practise. The highly popular Stress Disease: The
Growing Plague, and the book which he now calls outdated, An Organic Basis
for Neuroses and Educational Difficulties. He and Sally Goddard cooperated in
the video Learning Problems and Neuro-developmental Delay which has been
widely distributed internationally.
Sally Goddard Blythe, N.D.T.
Sally Goddard Blythe is the Co-Director of the Institute for Neuro-Physiological
Psychology (INPP) in Chester, England. She is the author of the widely
acclaimed book A Teacher's Window Into The Child´s Mind (1996 Fern Ridge
Press, Eugene, OR) which is in its second edition in both the
Swedish and German translations. It is also being translated
into Danish and Spanish.
When she joined INPP in 1987, her first research interest
was into the effect that the Fear Paralysis Reflex - a very
early intra-utero reflex - had on later motor, academic and
emotional development. (1989, The Fear Paralysis Reflex
and its Interaction with the Primitive Reflexes. INPP
Monograph series.) This eventually led to her presenting a paper at the 3rd
European Conference on Neuro-developmental Delay in Children with
Specific Learning Difficulties in March 1991, entitled Elective Mutism: The
Unchosen Silence. (INPP Monograph).
From that time onward, she has been working on the papers. She has also
written articles for The (London) Times Educational Supplement, Music
Teacher, Nursery World, etc. and has lectured extensively throughout Britain,
Ireland, France, Germany and Spain.
Currently she is planning another book, although her time is largely taken up
with working with children with a variety of Specific Learning Difficulties dyslexia, reading problems, writing difficulties, ADD dyscalcula and dyspraxia.
Every two months she gives a "One Day Teaching Course" which helps special
needs teachers to detect those children who may have an underlying neurodevelopmental delay playing a major role in their learning difficulties. She then
presents a developmental motor programme which can be used as a class
activity rather than having to work with each child individually. Each year she
leads the One Year Four Module training course to post graduate students.
This presents the theory developed by INPP, a full screening methodology for
detecting underlying neuro-developmental factors, the diagnostic assessment
and the unique INPP Stimulation/Inhibition programme which has been
proven to be successful in a double-blind, cross-over study.
Mikhail Lazarev
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member of the Academy of Pedagogical and Social Sciences
Doctor of Medical Sciences
Ph.D. in Psychology
Professor of International Academy of Arts and Sciences
Head of the laboratory formation of the health of children of Russian Research Center, the
replacement of Medicine and Health Balneology
Mikhail Lazarev - patriarch ideas prenatal education in Russia and the founder
of the first schools in the prenatal medical fizkulturnom dispensary number 4
in Moscow in 1984.
Author of the musical development of the fetus' Sonatal, which is used in
Russia and abroad since 1983.
Holder of a patent for a music zone for pregnant women "Mamatonik, allowing
the child to make their own music and sounds to help them communicate with
the mother.
Author of early childhood development through music "Intonika" and musical
programs for creating a health preschoolers "Hello!" junior school "Flower of
health." Program recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science.
Michael Lazarev has written more than 1000 children's songs in the musical
genre he created "The Music of mothers and children."
Author of the scientific program: "The theory of prenatal personality", "Theory
of Health Education," "Ontogenopatiya" (Health Development).
Pantelis Makris
Pantelis Makris was born in Monagri (www.monagri.org) a small village just
outside Limassol, Cyprus. Ηe graduated from the Lanition Gymnasium, served
as an artillery officer, became a primary school teacher, worked at the Nicosia
School for the Deaf for almost 25 years and coordinated for many years the
integration of deaf students in public high schools.
He has studied both in the United States and in Great Britain. He is a holder of
a Primary School Teacher’s Degree, of a System’s Analysis Diploma, of a BS in
Computers in Education and of two post graduate degrees on Deafness and on
Assistive Technology. He has attended numerous short courses, seminars and
conference either as a participant or as a speaker.
He is a special education inspector employed by the Cyprus Ministry of
Education and Culture, member of the multidisciplinary committee for the
assessment of special needs children, he is a member of the Special
Committee for the recording of Sign Language, served as the President of the
Information and Communication Technology Committee at the Ministry of
Education, he has been a project manager for various European and non
European projects (ARION, COST, GRUNDTVIG, UNOPS, IPE, UNDP) and a
Coordinator of Information and Communication Technology use for Children
with Mental Retardation integrated in Secondary and Higher Education.
He is the establisher of the ICTEACH Educators Group who work for the
development and research on the contribution of ICT systems to education in
general and also to Special Education. Details can be found on
www.icteach.org
He is a Senior Research Scientist, Member of the Board of the Cyprus
Neuroscience and Technology Institute (CNTI, www.cnti.org.cy) and leads the
Special Education Unit, which pioneers in the development of
screening/evaluation as well as treatment software-based tools for learning
difficulties.
Besides the development of a big number of special educational software and
special systems (MAKS, MAPS, READING for the Deaf, LEXICON, PES for Adults,
PES for Kids, ASSS, Sudoku, Printings etc) he has also a big list of publications
most of them on the use of Assistive Technology for the favour of the
disadvantaged people. His present work focuses on Alternative, Augmentative
Communication (AAC) systems.
For his work with Assistive Technology and his contribution to special
education he has been awarded four international prizes.
Dr. Cheri Florance
International Leader In Brain Engineering
CEO, Brain Scientist, Mother, Doctor, Professor, Author, National Institutes Of Health
Researcher, Educational Problem Solver, Corporate Consultant, Board Prep Trainer,
National Advisor, Expert Witness, Keynote Speaker, Clinical Director, Executive Coach,
Hospital-Based Therapist, Brain Builder
Dr. Cheri L. Florance, is the CEO of Brain Engineering Laboratories and the
author of "Maverick Mind" and "A Boy Beyond Reach". Having completed
Ph.D. studies in both speech and hearing science and psycholinguistic
processing, Dr. Florance was awarded the highly coveted Career Development
Award from the National Institutes Of Health in Brain Science. She consults
with highly visual clients all over the world from her offices in Trump Place in
New York City.
She has been honored by the White House for her breakthrough discoveries,
and has consulted internationally with corporations, medical schoolsuniversities, government agencies, and school districts. She has re-engineered
the brains of thousands of highly visual children and adults for the past 30
years. Her work has led to interviews by Oprah, CBS, ABC and NBC news, and a
cover story in USA today.
She is known for handling the most complex brain challenges, which can be
illustrated by her innovative and unprecedented programs including