Emma is a friendly, engaging speech pathologist who supports children from early childhood to adolescents. Emma has a particular interest in speech sound disorders and school-aged language disorders, and has experience working with Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS).  She provides therapy in clinic, in homes, community settings, schools, and via telehealth, always tailoring her approach to fit the unique needs and goals of each child and family.

Emma has experience working with children across the areas of early intervention, school aged language and literacy, paediatric feeding and AAC (KWS, Proloquo2Go, LAMP WFL and Avaz AAC).

Emma takes a child-centred approach to therapy, working collaboratively with children and families to develop meaningful and functional communication skills.

Emma’s practice is informed by extensive training and ongoing professional development in evidence-based approaches, including:

• Diagnosis and Treatment of CAS using Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC) and Rapid Syllable Transition (REST)
• Evidence Based Interventions and Strategies for Children with Developmental Language Disorder, DLD Project
• Lateral Lisp Remediation – Graham Speech Therapy
• Sounds-Write Phonics Program
• AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication) with training in:
  • PODD (Pragmatic Organization Dynamic Display)
  • Assessment and Implementation for AAC (Liberator)
• It Takes Two To Talk, Hanen
• Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) training: our PDA kids
• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Families training