Dee has over 10 years experience working with children who have speech, language and social communication difficulties.
Dee trained as a speech pathologist at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand and worked for the Ministry of Education in New Zealand for a number of years. In this role Dee worked closely with psychologists, teachers and parents to help preschool children to develop their early language and communication disorders, and also with school age children facing speech, language and literacy difficulties.
Following a move to Melbourne in 2001, Dee completed her Masters degree in Applied Linguistics at Macquarie University (Sydney) and in 2002 began work at the Cochlear Implant Clinic in Melbourne. In this highly specialised role Dee worked with children with severe-profound hearing loss and their families to support them through the candidacy process and the long term rehabilitation required after surgery.
Dee has been leading a long term research project in the area of Autism Spectrum Disorders and hearing loss and has received a number of community funding grants to support this ongoing research. Dee has presented a number of research projects and lectures at national and international conferences.
Currently, Dee co-ordinates the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Program at St Vincent’s Hospital, continues her work and study as a researcher at the University of Melbourne, and works as a clinical educator training graduate speech pathologists at La Trobe University. |
