SPEECH LANGUAGE AND LEARNING - Key Persons
Joanne has more than 25 years of experience working with young children as a school teacher, literacy coach and more recently as a speech pathologist. She recently received First Class Honours for her research paper investigating the acquisition and assessment of vocabulary in Australian children. She has been well known to Sue from her teaching years, so has been enthusiastically welcomed to our team in her new Speech Pathology career. She is passionate about supporting young people to reach their full potential and grow in independence and confidence. Joanne has extensive training and experience working with children's literacy development and language comprehension using the ‘Lindamood Programs', ( LIPPS, Seeing Stars and Visualising & Verbalising) in addition to structured synthetic phonics programs. She has worked closely with children who have significant difficulties in literacy learning, and her patience and reassurance allows children to progress confidently. Jo complements our team perfectly with her friendliness and warmth, and wealth of experience.
Kym is our lovely Client Care Manager with a warm, welcoming smile. As a family person, she helps us create an inviting environment for our team, families and clients, whether it be the first time or ongoing
sessions. She is available via email or phone (voice or text), advising patiently on the availability of our Services and all extended information on our invoicing processes for each individual level of care.
Kym has extensive experience in customer service, accounting and business throughout the medical, aged care and sales fields during her administrative and Personal Assistant career. Her vast experience extends to her professionalism and efficiency when dealing with sensitive issues of client care with our valued families.
Children and parents love greeting Kym on their arrival in reception, often with a happy chat or a cup of tea if needed. She is readily contacted for quick responses to any questions regarding our Practice and is ready to help with any problem-solving, should it be required.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Speech Pathologist
- Team Member
Sarah is an amazing team member and her contribution to SLL has been warmly welcomed, initially in a Full Time Locum position then as a Part-Time Consultant. She travelled and worked overseas from 2016 to 2018 but returned in 2019 to work as a part time consultant. Sarah graduated as valedictorian of her Therapy cohort, with a Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours 1) from the University of Queensland, completing research in the area of head injury following sporting accidents. She was awarded the Speech Pathology Australia Student Award for 2014. Sarah has additional certifications in BLADES language training, the Lidcombe Program for early stuttering and SALT language analysis and SOS feeding.
Job Titles:
- Founding Director
- Founding Director of Speech Language & Learning
- Founding Director Principal Speech Pathologist
Sue is the Founding Director of Speech Language & Learning which has been operating since 2004. She has over 40 years of experience working with a wide range of clients and in management positions. Speech Pathology positions held include the Sydney Children's Hospital, Speech Pathologist In-Charge, Queensland Cerebral Palsy League, (now known as Choice Passion Life), the Pre-School for Deaf, Brisbane and CHI.L.D. Association/ The Glenleighden School (now known as Speech and Language Development Australia / SALDA) (Senior Speech Pathologist & Outreach Manager). Sue was also on the Board of Directors of CHI.L.D. Association/ SALDA from 2015 to 2018. She is a co-coordinator for the Speech Pathology Australia -Queensland Private Practice Network and sits on the executive of the Queensland branch of Speech Pathology Australia.