Principal members of Integrated Learning Therapy
 | Dr Shirley Kokot (B.A. (Hons Psychology); B. Ed (School Guidance); M. Ed (Counselling); D.Ed; STD) taught Special Needs Education at UNISA for over twenty years as well as maintaining a private practice as an Educational Psychologist. She is currently a Research Fellow with the university. Her specialist field was originally Gifted Child Education but realisation that gifted children may also have learning difficulties motivated her to widen her field of specialisation to include neurodevelopmental causes underlying barriers to learning in all individuals. She furthered her studies overseas and brought back new approaches to South Africa. She left the university in 2007 to focus on sharing her insights and experience with other helping professionals. She is the founder of Radford House, a school for gifted children in Johannesburg (www.radfordhouse.co.za), the President of the National Association for Gifted and Talented Children in South Africa and served on the Executive Committee of the World Council for Gifted and Talented Children. She received the President’s Award in 2007 from this organization for distinguished service to the field. |
 | Michael L Kokot (M.Sc.; M.B.L.) is an analytical chemist who has worked in the fields of Geochemistry, Food Science, Cereal chemistry and Forensic chemistry and served as Head of the Forensic Chemistry Laboratories for the Department of Health, South Africa for over 14 years. He also served as a member of the Witwatersrand Technicon (now University of Johannesburg) School of Chemistry Advisory Board. He is author and co-author of over twenty-one publications in national and international journals and presenter of at least fifteen lectures and talks at conferences. He is co-author of a book on developing thinking skills in children. He has a special interest in the role of nutrition in neurodevelopment and behaviour and lectures in this field in ILT training courses. He is a member of Funda Fun c.c. and is also involved in the administration and logistical management of Integrated Learning Therapy. |
