Stainthorp, Rhona

Rhona Stainthorp is a research professor in the Institute of Education, University of Reading, UK.She began her professional career teaching in a secondary school in London and turned to study psychology at Birkbeck College when confronted with the challenge of teaching young adolescent boys who could not read.Over the last 40 years she has worked in a number of academic departments in UK universities teaching teachers, and speech and language therapists from undergraduate to PhD level about the development of literacy.She has also been extensively involved in providing continuing professional...