ABOUT ME

I graduated from the University of Newcastle, in NSW, Australia in 1998. Over the last 20+ years I have worked in a variety of settings, including schools, early childhood centres, homes, community clinics, residential care, and a cochlear implant clinic. I've been lucky enough to work in Australia, the UK and New Zealand.

My husband and I settled in NZ in 2011 and I am now a proud mum of a 13 year old son. My experiences as a parent have been invaluable in supporting my understanding of child development as well as the importance of play and interaction in developing speech and language skills. I have loved having the opportunity to watch my son develop his communication skills and engage with the world in his own way. I feel very privileged to have the opportunity to help other parents to support their children to develop their communication skills as part of my work.

I feel that it is very important to look at each child, and each family as individuals, and do my best to ensure that both assessment and intervention are tailored to the needs of the child and family. I love having the opportunity to work with children and their ‘team’ – parents, siblings, grandparents, teachers and carers. I believe in working on goals that are important to the family and in finding ways to make practice fit in with the already busy demands of a household.

I am a registered member of the New Zealand Speech Language Therapists' Association. You can find me on the Registered Members Directory, or the Private Practice Directory.

I'm committed to continued professional development, to ensure that I always provide up-to-date, and evidence-based intervention.

Some of the recent training I have attended includes:

Using the SCERTS framework to guide priorities for autistic learners with social emotional learning differences (June 2022)

32nd World Congress of the Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders, IALP 2023

Translating Evidence into Practice: Effective Oral Narrative Intervention for School Age Children (March, 2023)

Down Syndrome Research Forum (May 2024)

Assessing and Facilitating Sentence Diversity in Early Language Intervention (June 2024)

Sounds-Write Practitioners Training (October, 2024)

Play Conference 2025 - The Full Spectrum of Play (March, 2025)

The Science of Learning for SLPs: Oral Language, Reading and Writing Intervention for School-Aged Children (March 2025)