Sheila Hollins (GB)
Sheila Clare Hollins, Baroness Hollins (born 22 June 1946), is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability at St George’s, University of London, and was created a crossbench life peer in the House of Lords on 15 November 2010 taking the title Baroness Hollins, of Wimbledon in the London Borough of Merton and of Grenoside in the County of South Yorkshire.
Baroness Hollins founded the visual literacy charity Books Beyond Words in 1989 to produce word free books for people who find pictures easier to understand than words. She is chair and series editor for Beyond Words.
Baroness Hollins has published extensively about mental health, and people with intellectual disabilities.