Gail Gillon


Gail Therese Gillon is a New Zealand child development academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Canterbury.

Academic career

After a 1995 PhD at titled 'The phonological, semantic and syntactic skills of children with specific reading disability' at the University of Queensland, she moved to the University of Canterbury, rising to full professor.
Much of Gillon's research relates to phonological awareness intervention in childhood reading disorders.

Selected works