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Georgina (Jane) Morgan Chartered
Educational Psychologist BSc
(Hons), MPhil (CNAA) MSc (Educational Psychology), PGCE, AFBPsS, CPsychol |
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SUMMARY
PROFILE |
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An
experienced educational psychologist with considerable and successful
background in management, training and consultancy skills and in working with
organisations at a systems level. |
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SKILLS SUMMARY |
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Autistic spectrum disorder |
An experienced trainer, able to develop,
implement and monitor individualised programmes to support children and young
people with autism spectrum conditions, their families and staff. |
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Psychometrics |
Qualified to conduct a range of
psychometric tests with children and young people between the ages of 6 and
16 |
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Dynamic Assessment |
An experienced dynamic assessor, able to
assess a childÕs learning potential as well as those forms of teaching which
will best help a child to learn |
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Family consultation |
Able to conduct user-friendly family
consultation and interventions |
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Literacy assessment |
An experienced assessor of literacy difficulties |
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CAREER HISTORY |
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2008
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present |
Independent
Child Psychology Services Ltd |
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Associate á
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Portsmouth
Educational Psychology Service |
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1997
- 2007 |
Specialism
Senior Educational Psychologist Key responsibilities á
Particular responsibility for Hearing
Impairment and Social Communication Disorders including Autism Spectrum
Conditions |
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1995
- 1997 |
Educational
Psychologist Key responsibilities: á
Implementing and running the
PELICAN programme, a pre-school provision for children with social communication
difficulties. á
Founder member of the Portsmouth
Autism Assessment Service. á
Chair of the Inclusion Strategy
Group; a multi-agency group providing advice, monitoring and support to the
L.A. in response to the needs of pupils with social communication difficulties
including autism spectrum conditions (ASC). á
Member of the County Autism Group
in Hampshire á
Support in the development of
mainstream resourced provision for pupils with ASC. á
Educational Psychology support and
advice to specialist provisions and mainstream schools in Portsmouth. á
Training: developing and
delivering training programmes in Portsmouth and Hampshire, both bespoke and
centre-based, on a range of subjects. Key achievements á
Developed, implemented and ran the
pre-school service for children with social communication impairments, using
a unique model which, through evaluation, has proved to be very effective and
is highly valued by the Local Authority. á
Led the development of services
for pupils with social communication disorders in the Local Authority,
chairing a new multi-agency group which evaluated
current provision and promoted new initiatives including the setting up of
resourced mainstream provision. á
Was a founder member of the
Portsmouth Autism Assessment Service, a diagnostic service, led by a Child
and Adolescent Psychiatrist, working with children and their families á
Worked with the Specialist Speech
and Language Therapist and the Clinical Psychologist fromn
the Assessment Service to develop and provide training sessions for professionals
and parents from the Portsmouth area on Autism Awareness á
Worked as the Education
representative in a working group establishing new services for pupils
displaying sexually problematic behaviour in Portsmouth schools á
Worked with a Specialist Advisory
Teacher setting up and running a programme to develop Emotional Literacy
skills in pupils at Key Stages 1 and 2. This programme, using adapted
PAThS
materials, with permission of the authors, Greenberg and Kusche,
commenced in 1998, wellbefore the Government SEAL
initiatives, and evaluations indicated extremely positive impacts á
Worked with a Specialist Teacher
Adviser to develop training programmes for non-teaching staff working with
hearing impaired pupils. This was a four day programme aimed at developing
skills and understanding with opportunities to practice skills between
sessions á
Was a member of a multi-agency
team evaluating services for pupils with hearing impairments in the Local
Authority á
Provided training on Positive
Behaviour Management strategies for staff using the model of LaVigna and Willis and including Physical Intervention
skills based on those of SCIP, Strategies for Crisis Intervention and
Prevention |
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EDUCATION |
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1994
- 1995 |
University of Southampton |
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Master
of Science (Educational psychology) |
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1978
- 1982 |
North East London Polytechnic |
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1982 |
MPhil (C.N.A.A.) |
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1972
- 1973 |
Stockwell College of Education |
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Postgraduate
Certificate in Education |
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1969
- 1972 |
North East London Polytechnic |
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1967 |
Bachelor
of Science Lower
Second Class Honours |
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MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL ORGANISATIONS |
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Health
Professions Council Association
of Educational Psychologists British
Psychological Society (Chartered Status and Associate Fellow) Division
of Educational and Child Psychologists Association
of Child Psychologists in Private Practice |
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RESEARCH |
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1971 |
Research
for dissertation during B.Sc. investigating superstitious beliefs |
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1978
- 1982 |
Research
for M.Phil. dissertation, investigating the
development of fear in
children |
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1982
- 1985 |
Working
as a member of a Department of the Environment funded research team, led by
Dr Peter Harvey at Birmingham University investigating the sources and
effects of environmental lead on the development of children |
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1995 |
Research
for MSc dissertation evaluating the effectiveness of Positive Behaviour
Management training implemented in Hampshire schools for pupils with severe
learning difficulties |
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2005 |
Research
project with Dr. Francesca Happe, KingÕs College,
and Dr Pam Heaton, GoldsmithÕs College, London University investigating the
effect of a multi-sensory environment on the behaviour and affect of young
children with social communication impairments |
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PUBLICATIONS |
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Liddell,
A. and Morgan, G. (December !978) Superstitious
Compulsions: British Journal of Medical Psychology Harvey,
P.G. Morgan, G. et al (1985) 3 separate papers: Blood lead, Behaviour and
Intelligence Test Performance in Young Children; A
Method for Assessing Hand to Mouth Activity in Children as a Possible
Transport Route for Toxic Substances; Lead Intakes of Young Children from Dust
and Other Sources; in
Proceedings of International Conference on Heavy Metals in the Environment:
Ed, T.D. Lekkas. Harvey, P.G. Morgan, G. et al. (1988) Relationship
between Blood Lead, Behaviour, Psychometric and Neuropsychological Test
Performance in Young Children; British Journal of Developmental
Psychology, 6, 145-156 Harvey, P.G., Morgan, G. et al. (1989) The
Birmingham Blood Lead Studies; in Lead Exposure and Child
Development; an International Assessment; Smith, M.A., Grant, L.d. and Sors, A.I. (Eds.) Morgan, G. M. & Hastings, R. P.
(1998). Special educators' understanding of challenging behaviours in
children with learning disabilities: Sensitivity to information about
behavioural function; Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. 26,
43-52.Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy. 26, 43-52. |
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