Rhonda Faragher

Dr. Rhonda Faragher is a senior lecturer in Mathematics Education at the Australian Catholic University (Canberra campus). She is the current Vice-Chair of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disabilities (IASSID) Down Syndrome Special Interest Research Group (SIRG).

In 2009 she was awarded a Commonwealth of Australia Endeavour Executive Award to travel to Singapore to work with Down Syndrome Association Singapore and the National Institute of Education, Singapore. She has been an Adjunct Professor of Simon Fraser University (Canada) teaching an on-line course in Education and Down syndrome in conjunction with the Down Syndrome Research Foundation (Canada).

Currently, Rhonda is working on a research project investigating the mathematical development of young children with Down syndrome. She is also working with staff in remote indigenous Australian schools supporting children with Down syndrome to learn mathematics.