At the moment Sharon is working on three minor projects as well as the ongoing consultancy work.

• Finishing her book on Dyslexia and reading perceptual problems which is to be published and launched this year in April.
• Creating online lectures for Professional Development for teachers who cannot access my workshops due to distance constraints.
• Doctoral research at the University of Queensland with Professor Peter Renshaw and at USQ with Professor Pat Danaher and Profesor Glen Postle.

My research focus is on newly emerging cultural parameters of disability, challenging the normal assumptions that surround disability discourse with a view to exposing and changing the social practices that sustain the pedagogies through which disability and its exclusive discourse are constructed. I will be examining changing attitudes within the area of early childhood, primary and middle schooling towards inclusive practices. I will be writing a series of papers, examining the process behind the experiential approach we use in our work and also the other side of our research and teaching which focuses on teachers pedagogy, support and overall curriculum practices. I then want to explore the concept of values as an overarching umbrella to the work. These papers and research data will then be collated into a final folio of work. This, as well as my multimedia support resources I have, and am continuing to develop will form my final PHD.

My data demonstrates that the use of certain pedagogical practices and different strategies such as inclusion across all areas, by mainstream teachers allows all students across all year levels to avail of productive pedagogies in terms of dramatically improved teaching and learning outcomes for all learners.  I propose also to use aspects of critical ethnography in the form of case studies in order to contest several pedagogic practices in school-based, early childhood and teacher pre-service and in-service settings that promote social and cultural reproduction and hinder rather than contribute to the educational advantage of differently-abled learners.

" I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do."
- Helen Keller

Some feedback from our university student based sessions - Thanks Stella!

To: Stephen Hughes Subject: Thanks

Hi Steve Just wanted to say thank you for organising Sharon to come and share her expertise with us. She is an inspirational person and wonderful to listen to.  I only wish I was able to stay for the full session.  The 'hands-on' tutorial today was fantastic - so many new  experiences!I imagine that it is not easy to arrange for professional workshops to be presented, as costs are high and budgets usually low. So, thanks again for arranging this extremely worthwhile experience for us. RegardsStella Hoyes

Still writing up - Creating equitable assessment ideas with Professor Rod St Hill - USQ Grant