Hi, I’m Brent. I’m a speech pathologist consultant from Melbourne. I offer two services in particular: Assessments and Training. I am available for face-to-face assessments and consultations within the Melbourne area, and remote training anywhere you are in the world.
When I was a student working towards a Masters of Speech Pathology, I completed adult and paediatric clinical practice placements. Immediately, I was drawn towards working with children and their families.
Perhaps it’s because my mother is a teacher which meant I was working around children and in school settings behind the scenes since I was a teenager. Being young myself, I had a deep understanding for the children I helped out with. The excitement surrounding them when they spoke new words. Their need to play and discover. How each day held the potential to learn more and shape them into the unique individuals they were on their way to becoming.
I completed my Master of Speech Pathology at the University of Melbourne in 2014. After graduation I worked in schools in the western region of Catholic Education Melbourne to develop the speech, language, and communication skills of all children, especially those with additional educational needs.
I have experience providing speech, language, pragmatic, literacy, voice, speech fluency assessment and intervention. I am committed to achieving the best possible outcomes for students, families, and schools through appropriate, evidence-based services that are targeted to a child’s areas of need. I have conducted therapy to target listening and attention, concept words, following directions, vocabulary, listening and storybook comprehension, grammar, sentence structure, storytelling, speech sounds, phonological awareness, phonics, spelling, reading comprehension, voice use, and speech fluency.
I believe that communicating effectively with families is integral to my role as a speech pathologist to discuss children’s learning, development, and progress, to obtain relevant information about children and their families to support therapy, and to provide easy to understand information that will enhance your child’s learning at home and at school.
I have completed professional development and training in:
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