Dr Veronica Bidwell
Dr Veronica Bidwell is an educational psychologist with expert knowledge of Specific Learning Difficulties. She has been involved in education for over 30 years and has worked as both psychologist and teacher in mainstream and special schools.
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Biography
Veronica Bidwell is an educational psychologist with expert knowledge of Specific Learning Difficulties. She has been involved in education for over 30 years and has worked as both psychologist and teacher in mainstream and special schools. In the late 90s she set up and ran a leading independent educational psychology service based in London. She has assessed and worked with many hundreds of pupils and has given support and advice to their parents and teachers. She has developed and delivered numerous training courses for parents and professionals and has contributed to Dystalk, the leading learning difficulty website offering a series of talks given by experts in their field.
She is currently a governor at Fairley House School, a leading independent specialist school catering for pupils aged 6 to 16 with dyslexia and dyspraxia. Delete She has served as chairman of the trustees at the Kensington Dyslexia Centre and as a governor and chairman of the education committee at Fairley House School. Veronica has a postgraduate certificate in Education. She is a chartered educational psychologist with an Honours degree in Psychology from Bedford College, London University, a Masters degree and a Doctorate in Educational Psychology both from University College, London.
Books
THE PARENT'S GUIDE TO SPECIFIC LEARNING DIFFICULTIES: INFORMATION, ADVICE AND PRACTICAL TIPS (Jessica Kingsley Publishers) is the book she wanted for many years to give to parents, teachers and other learning support professionals. It covers all the various labels that parents can be faced with, from dyslexia to visual processing to dyspraxia and ADHD. Each one is described so that a parent can understand what it is, how it might overlap with another condition, and - most importantly - how to help a child do really well despite their challenges.