Marion is a paediatric Speech Pathologist who graduated in 2003. She started Kids in the Hills Speech Pathology in 2015, after gaining a wide range of experience supporting children at schools, home, kindy/childcares and in the hospital context. She previously worked at the Royal Children’s Hospital helping children with hearing impairment and cochlear implants to develop oral communication skills. She has also worked at Montrose, a not-for-profit community organisation, supporting children with a wide range of disabilities and delays in their feeding and communication skill development. 

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Marion is a practising member of Speech Pathology Australia and regular participates in further professional development activities. She enjoys working with younger children 0-8years in their early years, kindy, prep readiness and during the first few years of schooling. Her specific areas of interest and experience include working with speech sound disorders, early language and literacy difficulties.

 

She has completed further training in the following areas (most relevant listed) :

• Speech:

  • 2 day CAS Bootcamp, by Maryane Gomez (2024)

  • Practical Strategies and Resources: Your Toolkit for CAS, by Jennie Bjorem (2024)

  • Articulating Success: Navigating the Evidence for Treatment of Orofacial Myofunctional Disorders in Speech Pathology, Clinical Bites SPA (2023)

  • Diagnosis and Treatment of CAS Using Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing (DTTC), by Edyth Strand 

  • Jaw Stability and Speech Clarity, Talk Tools

  • Rapid Syllable Transition (ReST) program for CAS, through the Sydney University

  • Familiar with work by Pamela Marshalla including "The Marshalla Guide" and "Frontal Lisp, Lateral Lisp".

  • Eliciting Speech Sounds, SPA by Elise Baker (2022)

  • Speech Sound Disorders Series, Bright ideas (2021, 2022) 

  • Using Principles of Motor Learning, by Cari Ebert (2021)

  • ​​Evidence- based management of phonological impairment in children, SPA by Elise Baker (2016) 

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• Language:

  • Assessing and Facilitating Sentence Diversity in Early Language Intervention, by Pamela Hadley (2024)

  • “It Takes Two to Talk", Hanen

  • Derbyshire Language Scheme

  • Evidence-Based Interventions & Strategies for Children with DLD, The DLD Project

  • Effective oral narrative intervention for school- aged children, Laura Glisson (2023)

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• Literacy:

  • Sounds-Write​ program

  • Read3 program

  • Literacy intervention for children with dyslexic risk factors, SPA (2021)

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• Feeding - the SOS Feeding Approach

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