Dr Shane Langsford has a PhD in Educational Psychology, a Bachelor of Education with First-Class Honours (majoring in School Psychology), and a Bachelor of Psychology, all from the University of Western Australia.
Dr Langsford is a Registered Psychologist with Endorsement in Educational and Developmental Psychology in both Australia and the United Kingdom.
Dr Langsford is a Full Member of the Australian Psychological Society (APS), Australian Association of Psychologists (AAPi), Australian ADHD Professionals Association (AADPA), ADHD WA (NFP organisation), School Psychologists’ Association of WA (SPAWA), and the WA Autism Diagnosticians’ Forum (WAADF).
Dr Langsford is also a Fellow of the APS College of Educational & Developmental Psychologists (CEDP) and a Full APS CEDP Academic Member. To be awarded Full Academic Member status, an individual has to have completed a PhD in psychology, have at least two years’ experience as a researcher or educator in psychology in the College-specific area of practice, and have published a notable body of relevant research in the College-specific area of practice.
Dr Langsford’s PhD in Educational Psychology received the Excellence in Postgraduate Studies in Education Award in 2000 for the best postgraduate research conducted in education in Western Australia. This research resulted in the creation of the first version of the PsychProfiler. During his undergraduate and graduate studies, Dr Langsford also received the National Research Prize from the Australian Society for the Study of Intellectual Disability and the Australian Postgraduate Award from the Commonwealth Department of Employment, Education, and Training.
Dr Shane Langsford established Psychological & Educational Consultancy Services (PECS) in Subiaco, Western Australia, in 1999 which has grown from being a single practitioner practice to now comprising seven Psychologists who, under Dr Langsford’s continued guidance, conduct child and adult assessments for ADHD, Specific Learning Disorder (SLD: aka Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia), Autism (ASD), and Intellectual Developmental Disorder (IDD).
Professor Stephen Houghton is the Director of the Centre for Child and Adolescent Related Disorders at the University of Western Australia. Within the university, he chairs the Human Research Ethics Committee, is Convenor of the Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Fellowship Committee, and a member of the Pro-Vice Chancellor’s Research Committee.
Professor Houghton has won several teaching awards, is a regular speaker at various education conferences, and has appeared in the media to comment on education policies and practices. Professor Houghton has authored and co-authored numerous books, book chapters and more than 100 published journal articles. He has been a guest editor of the International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, an associate editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology, and a member of the editorial boards of Educational Psychology and the Australasian Journal of Special Education. Outside the university, Professor Houghton sits on numerous state and national committees as well as task forces to deal with the special education needs and behaviour problems of children.
Dr Graham Douglas has a PhD from the University of Chicago in psychometrics. He previously worked in the area of childhood disorders, providing research design and expertise in statistical and psychometric analysis to research projects at the University of Western Australia.
Now retired, he continues to serve as an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia. He also supervises doctoral students in international projects.Dr Douglas has published in journals such as Psychometrika and the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology.
Software development
Lindsay Jamieson is a director of Strategy West Consulting, an IT consulting company formed in 2000. He has IT experience encompassing defence, education, public, private and resource sectors. His roles have included management, systems development and integration, proposals and tenders, through to state-of-the-art, complex software development for small, medium and large projects—all with a focus on end-user outcomes. He has also been a university lecturer in computing studies.
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