Clinical Directors

Dr Diana Townsend

Ph.D., B.A.(Psych), Teach.Cert. L.T.C.L.(Teach. Sp.)
A.T.C.L. (Perf. Sp.)

Diana Townsend and Bryan Preen are clinical directors of Summerhill Clinic, established in 1982.  They have doctorates in Applied Neuroscience and specialise in diagnostic procedures, program development for a wide range of atypical students with language, literacy and mathematics learning problems and the training of professional therapists and clinicians.  Diana's current research centres on the neurological bases of learning from early childhood to adult level education.  She is particularly interested in students with attention deficits, sensory, neurological and developmental disorders and she specialises in programming for junior primary years.  She teaches students of all ages, encompassing all problem areas.

 Dr Bryan Preen

Ph.D., M.Sci. (Rem. Ed.)
Litt. B., B.A., Teach. Cert.
Dip. Clin. Hyp., FACE

Bryan, although he assesses and does some teaching of students in middle and upper primary years, works predominantly with secondary, tertiary, pre-apprenticeship and TAFE students.  He specialises in programs for dyslexics, temporal lobe epileptics, brain damaged students and adults who are barely functionally literate.

Both clinical directors are involved in the diagnosis and treatment of mathematics problems.  They also conduct computerised testing to determine individual brain processing preference.