- Valerie Yule
Dr. Valerie Yule (born
January 2 ,1929 inMelbourne ,Australia ) is a researcher inliteracy andimagination , clinical child psychologist [ [http://www.apa.org/crsppp/childclinic.html Description of Clinical Child Psychology] ] ,academic , school psychologist and teacher, working in disadvantaged schools, Melbourne and Monash Universities inpsychology andeducation ; the Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne and theRoyal Aberdeen Children's Hospital ; and hon. research fellow (Psychology ) atAberdeen University ; plus a somewhat adventurous life.Education
BA (Hons),
History and English, MAPsychology , Dip Ed, andPhD Education - research thesis onOrthography andReading ,Spelling andSociety .Memberships
Fellow of theGalton Institute [ [http://www.galtoninstitute.org.uk Galton Institute] ] (UK); Member,British Psychological Society ; Vice-President,Simplified Spelling Society [ [http://www.spellingsociety.org Simplified Spelling Society] ] (UK); Member, Independent Scholars Association of Australia [ [http://www.isaa.org.au Independent Scholars Association of Australia] ] , and of Australian educational and social reforming organizations. Founder, the non-profit Australian Centre for Social Innovations [ [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas Australian Centre for Social Innovations] ] ,1991 ; member, the British Institute for Social Inventions [ [http://www.alberyfoundation.org British Institute for Social Inventions] ] ,1984 .Original work
* Research to make
literacy easier by removing the barriers. This includes the concept of online access to understanding and self-help, and improving English spelling by maximising its advantages as well as reducing its disadvantages to meet needs and abilities of users and learners. This cognitive psychological research approach goes beyond the conventional assumptions of a purely phonetic solution tospelling reform as defined in Wikipedia.* Studies of children’s imagination and applied imagination.
* Social innovations; alternatives for social problems; more natural childcare; preventing waste of intelligence; the cognitive effects of very loud music, now pervasive and global; non-destructive pleasures; economic and political alternatives for
sustainability without requiring continual growth; humane solutions topopulation growth [ [http://geography.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=geography&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.census.gov%2Fipc%2Fwww%2Fidbsum.html Population Growth: International Data Base] ] ; cutting production of waste to reducecarbon emissions ; thepsychology ofpeace [ [http://www.webster.edu/peacepsychology/ Peace Psychology] ] .ee also
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* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/publicationsvy.htm Publications]
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/pubvykey.htm Key Publications]
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/pubvyresearch.htm Research]
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/pubvymultimedia Multimedia]
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/publishdvyselect.htm Original Thinking]
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/bookstopublish.htm Unpublished Books]
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/socinvent.htm Inventions and Innovations]
* [http://www.ozreadandspell.com.au Self-help online aid for English literacy. Experimental overview of the English writing system]
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/spintersp.htm Interspel: Updating the Writing System for International English]
* [http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/spelling.htm Spelling and Spelling Reform]
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