Lyn Stone

Lyn Stone is a linguist and runs Lifelong Literacy, a specialist tutoring practice for children and adults with learning difficulties, on the Mornington Peninsula in Australia. Lyn gained her linguistics degree at University College London and worked in a variety of speech and language settings in Australia since graduating in 1994. She began work at Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes in Sydney as a clinician and rose to the rank of mentor whilst qualifying as a practitioner and trainer. Lyn then went on to work at the Speech, Language and Literacy Centre in Sydney and qualified as a Spalding practitioner. She is also trained in Makaton, Auslan, Read Write Inc. Lyn has been in private practice since 1998 and has continued to train and mentor teachers whilst developing her linguistics-led learning programmes. She also writes courses, trains teachers and acts as a consultant for schools on matters of literacy and language.She is also an experienced public speaker with many radio and print media appearances.