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Students struggling to achieve at school due to learning and behavioural issues will soon be able to receive a supportive hand from a qualified professional with over 40 years’ experience in education and psychology.
Registered educational psychologist and secondary teacher, Dr Judy Selvaraj, is in the process of expanding her Northside Psychology practice, currently based in Hobsonville Point, to Mangawhai.
“The move will allow me to offer my services to people within the Kaipara, Rodney and Whangarei south districts,” she says.
The former commerce secondary teacher, who holds multiple degrees, has a personal connection with Mangawhai. In the 1970s, her mother Joy Matthews lived in Cheviot Road, co-owned the Mangawhai Heads Four Square with her partner, and was a keen bowler at the Hakaru Bowling Club.
Already well-known at schools in Mangawhai and Maungaturoto, Selvaraj provides cognitive, behavioural and educational assessments for people aged from five to 70 years who struggle with a wide-range of issues, from dyslexia, autism and attention disorders to non-verbal learning difficulties, as well as the gifted.
Her work also includes providing assistance and support programmes for primary school to university students, advice and guidance for principals, teachers and parents, and staff professional development.
“The disciplines of education and psychology, often viewed as separate, sometimes intersect in different ways for different reasons, in everyone’s daily lives. By becoming empowered with some of these understandings, students and families can be involved in marking out their own life directions so they become owners of their progress and development,” she says.
Contact Judy on selvaraj@xtra.co.nz or visit www.northpsych.co.nz
