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Our team

Pam has extensive experience in working with children who have hearing-impairment and speech and language difficulties. She believes that in order to facilitate a child’s emotional and social growth it is necessary to support parents, particularly when they are having difficulties in resolving the implications of a diagnosis. She works primarily with groups of parents, as well as parents and children, creating a space for them to reflect on and process some of the difficulties they experience

Antonia has experience working with children with a range of speech and language difficulties, including children with hearing loss, global delay, language delay/disorder and children on the autistic spectrum. She is currently involved with the Cochlear Implant programme at St George’s Hospital and has a specialist interest in working with children who have cochlear implants.

Dirk gained his Masters and Diploma of Educational Psychology in New Zealand. He is a trained teacher and has expertise as a family therapist and relationship counsellor. He specialises in psychological assessment and helping parents deal with challenging children.

For the past 17 years Michelle has specialised in teaching children through meaningful play. Since arriving in the U.K in 2003, Michelle has worked in a variety of settings and roles giving her a firm understanding of the Early Years Foundations Stage Curriculum. Michelle joined the team at Christopher Place in 2009 and loves the ‘within the team’ approach between children, their families and professionals.

An Ofsted inspector, Rose has 26 years' experience in four UK local authorities as a teacher and head teacher and was Chief Inspector, Head of School Improvement and Director of Schools in three of them. She has served on three UK government strategy groups, including developing early years' curriculum and expectations, and is proud of her contribution to the original 'Starting with Quality' document which led to the transformation of early years' practices nationally. She has led the integration strategies related to education, social care and health in a local authority, and is applying those principles to the practices, procedures and policies at Christopher Place.

Ranel has worked as both a Speech and Language Therapist and Audiologist. She has experience of working with children with a broad range of communication needs, including hearing impairment, speech and language delay, global developmental delay, autism and stammering. Since arriving in the UK in 2005, Ranel has worked in clinic settings as well as in mainstream and special needs schools before joining Christopher Place in 2008. Ranel loves being part of a multidisciplinary team that uses a child-centred approach to work with children and their families.

Tersia has had significant experience working with children under five with severe learning difficulties. She runs our early nursery groups for children with social communication difficulties and delay. Tersia loves working in this high adult-to-child-ratio setting where our input is very specific and always focused on each individual child.

Rachel received her Masters in Occupational Therapy at Quinnipiac University in the United States. She has experience providing intervention for preschool and school age children with a variety of diagnoses within public school districts and private clinics.

Rachel is certified in Therapeutic Listening and Handwriting Without Tears. When working with children, Rachel believes in the importance of providing therapy through the use of play; to achieve individualized goals in the areas of sensory processing, gross and fine motor development, visual motor and perceptual skills and self-care.

Rachel strongly encourages use of a collaborative approach, and integrating the active role of parents, teachers and caregivers in the child’s development.

Miranda has worked with children in community clinics, nurseries, children’s homes, and mainstream school settings, including a specialist unit for deaf children. Miranda enjoys working with parents and the wider team to identify a child’s strengths and needs, to support their communication to develop, and to celebrate in the progress that individual makes.

Miranda also works at the Portland Hospital Cochlear Implant team with children and adults. Miranda is particularly interested in working with people with cochlear implants.

Neera has worked as a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist since qualification in 1990.  In that time she has worked with children a wide range of communication impairments, including Down syndrome, Autistic Spectrum disorders, Specific Language Impairment and Dyspraxia.  Neera has a particular interest in working with families to ensure that they are best placed to understand and support their child’s communication needs in the fullest way possible.

Nicole has worked as a Speech and Language Therapist since 2002. From 2005 she specialised in working in an early years setting, at a nursery school for children with special speech and language needs in South Africa. She recently joined the Speech, Language and Hearing Centre after moving to the UK in July 2010. Nicole has a special interest in dyspraxia.

Bronwyn has worked within paediatrics throughout her career as a speech and language therapist and gained her certification as a LSLS Certified AVT in 2009. She worked for a charity organisation providing services to children with hearing and/or vision impairments in Adelaide, Australia before relocating to the UK to set up London Auditory Verbal at Christopher Place in 2010. She is passionate about the family focused approach to therapy and has expertise in working with infants identified by the Newborn Hearing Screening Program.

Susan has over 10 years of charity fundraising experience from a variety of roles including all aspects of fundraising from mass participation events and community groups to major donors. She joined the Speech, Language and Hearing Centre in April 2011 and has relished the challenge of raising funds for various projects, launching a Friends scheme and building a bigger database of potential funders.

Kasey received her Master’s degree in Occupational Therapy at The University of New Hampshire in the United States. She has had experience providing therapy for children within private clinics both in the USA and in London. She also has experience working in a school setting in the UK and has worked with children with a wide variety of diagnoses since her qualification.

She believes in therapy that is motivating and fun for the child, based around play and meaningful activity. She enjoys working closely with team members, families and children to ensure the individual goals of each child are being fully addressed.

Leah has worked as a paediatric speech and language therapist since graduating. She has worked in community clinics and early intervention services in Sydney. Leah has experience working in multi-disciplinary teams and has a special interest in early language intervention and bilingualism. Leah is a Hanen certified Speech and Language Therapist.