Dr Rebecca Greenaway
Consultant Clinical Psychologist
Dr Rebecca Greenaway is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Child Neuropsychologist with expertise in working with children and young people from infancy to adolescence. Alongside working in private practice, she holds an honorary contract within the Neurodisability Service at Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Rebecca has over 15 years’ experience working with families and children with neurodivergent presentations. She is experienced in carrying out multidisciplinary assessments of children with autism spectrum and attentional differences. She is ADOS-II trained and highly experienced in attention assessment. She is experienced in carrying out neuropsychological assessments and understanding complex profiles and is on the Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Rebecca is passionate about disseminating research into practice and is involved in lecturing, academic writing, has recently co-edited a book and also organises regular workshops.
Education & Accreditations
- BSc (Hons) Psychology (University of Bristol), 2000 (First Class)
- PhD Experimental Psychology (University of Cambridge), 2005
- Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Institute of Psychiatry), 2008
- Post-graduate Diploma in Paediatric Neuropsychology (UCL Institute of Child Health), 2010 (Distinction)
- Qualification in Clinical Neuropsychology, 2012
- Practitioner member of the Health and Care Professions Council
- Member of the British Psychological Society (BPS)
- Member of the BPS Division of Neuropsychology
- BPS Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors
- BPS Specialist Register of Clinical Neuropsychologists
Publications
Nickel, M., Gissen, P., Greenaway, R., et al. (2023). Language Delay in Patients with CLN2 Disease: Could It Support Earlier Diagnosis?. Neuropediatrics.
Greenaway, R. & Dale, N.J. (2022). Vision. In R. Booth, T. Murphy and K. Zebracki (Eds.) Paediatric Neuropsychology within the Multidisciplinary Context: A guide for clinicians, academics and students. Mac Keith Press
Greenaway, R. & Ungar, S. (2021). Cognition. In N. Dale, A. Salt, J. Sargent & R. Greenaway (Eds.) Children with Vision Impairment, Assessment, Development, and Management. Mac Keith Press
Rose, S., Bates, K. & Greenaway, R. (2021). Language and Communication Development. In N. Dale, A. Salt, J. Sargent & R. Greenaway (Eds.) Children with Vision Impairment, Assessment, Development, and Management. Mac Keith Press
Greenaway, R. & Pring, L. (2019). Visual Disability. In C. Llewellyn, S. Ayers., C. McManus, S. Newman, K. Petrie, T. Revenson and J. Weinman (Eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine, 3rd edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Clark, M., Greenaway, R., & Neville, B. (2017). Landau Kleffner Syndrome. In A. Arzimanoglou (Ed.), Pediatric Epilepsy Surgery. John Libbey.
Greenaway, R., Pring, L., Schepers, A., Isaacs, D. P., & Dale, N. J. (2017). Neuropsychological presentation and adaptive skills in high-functioning adolescents with visual impairment: A preliminary investigation. Applied Neuropsychology: Child, 6, 145-157.
Greenaway, R. & Dale, N.J. (2017). Congenital Visual Impairment. In L. Cummings (Ed.), Research in Clinical Pragmatics. Springer International Publishing.
Downes, M., Greenaway, R., Clark, M., et al. (2015). Outcome following multiple subpial transection in Landau‐Kleffner syndrome and related regression. Epilepsia, 56, 1760-1766.
Greenaway, R., Davis, G., & Plaisted-Grant, K. (2013). Marked selective impairment in autism on an index of magnocellular function. Neuropsychologia, 51, 592–600.
Greenaway, R., & Howlin, P. (2010). Dysfunctional attitudes and perfectionism and their relationship to anxious and depressive symptoms in boys with autism spectrum disorders. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 40, 1179–1187.
Donnelly, N., Cave, K., Greenaway, R. et al. (2007). Visual search in children and adults: Top-down and bottom-up mechanisms. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 120–136.
Greenaway, R. & Fortune, L. (2006). GPs’ views of psychology services: A comparison of GPs who refer to onsite and offsite Services. Primary Care Mental Health, 4, 245–254.
Greenaway, R. & Plaisted, K. (2005). Top-down attentional modulation in autism spectrum disorders is stimulus specific. Psychological Science, 16, 987–994