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Claire is an experienced speech pathologist/speech-language therapist who's travelled and worked in Australia and the UK. Since Claire enjoys working with a variety of communication difficulties, she's had the privilege of being in specialist roles with both children and adults.
Claire is passionate about her profession and thrives on opportunities to learn more about how to help people. Professional development is something that she's keen to provide and gain, having presented and completed a long list of training. A recent highlight involved shadowing at London's highly respected Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Claire gains pleasure from encouraging others to improve to the best of their ability and reach their full potential. This is reflected in her own academic and community service achievements over the years:
- Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours)
- Authorised Provider of The Listening Program
- Poster Presentation at 26th World Congress of International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (Investigating the Language of Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder)
- Nominated by the Dean of Students to represent The University of Queensland for the Asia-Pacific Golden Key Service Award (considered to reflect Golden Key's Society's spirit of scholarship and service)
- Life member of Golden Key International Honour Society (invitation requires a Distinction average at university)
- Gold Duke of Ediniburgh Award Recipient (Young Australian Challenge) - presented on behalf of Prince Philip by His Excellency Major General Peter Arnison
- Music Program Coordinator for Camp Quality, South-East Queensland, Australia
- Justice of the Peace (Qualified)
- First Australian accepted as a Gap Student during a Gap Year at a prestigious British school
With a musical background, Claire is interested is music therapy and learning how that complements speech-language pathology. In 2005 she was one of a handful of speech-language pathologists who attended the 11th World Congress of Music Therapy in Brisbane, Australia. With additional skills in choral singing, she's gained specialist skills as a voice therapist, working with professional voice users (including teachers, coaches, radio announcers, call centre staff and singers).
Claire is a member of:
- Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (UK)
- Speech Pathology Australia
- Voice Care Network UK
Claire welcomes all questions and requests for articles on specific topics.