Hi, I'm Christie

I'm a specialised speech and langugage therapist with extensive experience in assessing and providing intervention for children in a number of clinical areas:

Individualised approach

Regardless of diagnoses and labels, I provide a strengths-based, detailed assessment of your child's speech, language and communication skills, while considering their relationships and the environment in which they play, learn and connect.

ADHD

Developmental Language Disorder

Childhood Apraxia of Speech

Sensory Processing difficulties

Autistic individuals

Education

Speech and Language Therapy

City University (PGDip)

2014

Biological Sciences

Edinburgh University (BSc)

2008

Experience

Speech and Language Therapist

NHS in London, UK

2014-2017

Schools, nurseries and community centre settings

Senior Speech Pathologist and Team Leader

Kickstart Kids Therapy in Sydney, Australia

2017-2023

Multi-disciplinary clinic with OTs and Physiotherapists

Rural Speech Pathologist

Gunawirra, NGO in Kempsey, Australia

January-June 2023 (1 day a week)

Capacity building in a preschool and community

Training

including

Gestalt Language Processing

(Meaningful Speech)

Advanced Workshop in Dynamic Temporal and Tacile Cueing

(Child Apraxia Treatment)

It Takes Two to Talk

(Hanen Institute)

The Science of Language and Reading

(La Trobe University)

Enhanced Makaton Training

(The Makaton Foundation)

DIRFloortime

Developmental, Individual-differences and Relationship-based model

(IDCL)

Speech and Language Support for

5-11s

(ELKLAN)