Dr Loretta Giorcelli OAM, FACE.
AWARDS:
1993 Government’s Teaching Service Medal
1993 Life Membership of the Australian Teachers of the Deaf
Association
2007 Order of Australia Medal
2009 Fellow of the Australian College of Education
2019: Will celebrate 50 years in Education
trained as a primary/special education
teacher in Queensland in the late 1960s and has taught profoundly deaf
students, as well as students with a range of disabilities, at pre-school,
primary and secondary levels in segregated and integrated settings in
both the United Kingdom and Australia.
has a Bachelor's degree in Education,
a Master's degree in Education, a Master's degree in Special Education
and a PhD (Linguistics and Communication Disabilities) from the University
of Illinios (USA).
worked as a teacher, consultant and school
principal in Queensland and London schools, before accepting a
position in the New South Wales Department of School Education in 1984.
was the NSW Director of Special Education and
Equity Programs (Aboriginal Education, Migrant Education,
ESL, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Schools etc) with the
Department of School Education in New South Wales until April 1993.
lectured at the tertiary level at the University of New
South Wales where, in 1993 and 1994, she established the Certificate of
Learning Disabilities and The Certificate of Integration Studiesrespectively.
has appeared as an expert legal
witness and disability advocate in court cases both
locally and overseas over the last 10 years.
has worked as a consultant for the United Nations a government advisor
in Cyprus and for the Australian Government on overseas development
projects in Papua New Guinea.
has been associated in Honorary
capacities with the Macquarie University , the Children's Hospital
Sydney, the University of Western Sydney and the Beijing ENT Institute in
the People's Republic of China.
since 1996
has headed her own educational
consultancy company working
extensively in Hong Kong , New Zealand , Sth Africa, Malta, Cyprus
and the UK as well as throughout Australia.
works extensively as a specialist consultant with schools as well as
with government, NGOs, private agencies and parent groups and with parents as an advisor,
keynote speaker, staff developer and long-range planner.
from 2004-2007 was involved in one of the largest national
projects investigating the inclusion of students with disabilities in
regular classrooms in Australia. Results are available onwww.dest.gov.au/schools/losd
is an editorial board member of Reaching
Today’s Youth: The International Journal of Community Care.
co-edited "Accepting the Literacy Challenge” (Scholastic)
with Dr Alan Watson in 2000 and has contributed reviews and chapters to an
extensive range of texts and monographs since 1979.
is a Visiting Professor of Special Education to San
Francisco State University (USA).
is married to Kevin Robinson, a soccer-mad engineer. They are blessed with three accomplished
children and their spouses, as well as 6 amazing grandsons, Benjamin, twins
William and Thomas, Joshua, Eduardo and Javier and their gorgeous grand
daughter Sofia.
