MULTILIT is led by Professor Kevin Wheldall, a research psychologist and Professor of Education at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is also Director of Macquarie University Special Education Centre (MUSEC). After researching and writing extensively in the area of learning and behaviour difficulties in children for over twenty five years, in both Australia and the UK, he combined his interests in effective classroom behaviour management and the effective instruction of older low-progress readers and initiated in 1995 the MULTILIT Research and Development Initiative at MUSEC to provide a focus for his future work.
MULTILIT, which stands for 'Making Up Lost Time In Literacy' aims to address the needs of students with reading disabilities and similar problems from Year 2 to high school age by providing an intensive, structured, systematic program of instruction in reading and related skills carried out within a Positive Teaching environment.
The MULTILIT Reseach Unit was established in 2006 as the focus for continuing research.
This early research on MULTILIT (1996-1998) is detailed in the report commissioned by the Commonwealth Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs (DETYA, now DEST) entitled 'An Evaluation of MULTILIT' (Wheldall & Beaman, 2000).
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