Mary Lian Payamal

Lian is a qualified mediator for the Feuerstein instrumental enrichment programme, a form of cognitive therapy. In addition, she is trained in dyslexia remediation (using both the Orton-Gillingham approach and the Spalding Method). Lian set up Green Pastures in 2013 to focus on providing learning, behavioural and especially cognitive interventions to individuals with learning difficulties as well as psycho-educational assessment services. She is currently also lecturing and tutoring part-time with the National Institute of Education and Singapore Institute of Technology and provides clinical supervision for trainee Educational Psychologists in the MAAP and Trainee SEN officers in the DISE.

Lian is a believer of the neuroplasticity of the brain and believes strongly that children’s cognitive functions necessary for academic learning can be enhanced through helping them to ‘learn how to think and think how to learn’. She also believes in working within the child’s systems of support, where possible to mediate their learning.