About

Anna is a Certified Practicing Speech Pathologist with over 20 years experience working with preschool and school-aged children with speech, language, fluency and social communication difficulties.

Anna began her career in Canberra working with children aged 0-12 years in early intervention and community settings. She worked with children with developmental delays as well as children diagnosed with Autism, Downs Syndrome and Cerebral Palsy.

For three years she lived in the United Kingdom, where she worked as the hearing impaired specialist in primary and secondary schools, hospital and community settings. Since returning to Victoria, Anna has worked in community health, childcare centres, kindergartens, schools and private practice settings. She has facilitated the Hanen ABC & Beyond program for educators and the Hanen I'm Ready! program for parents. Both programs focus on developing young children's early literacy skills.

Anna’s professional interests include early language development, developmental speech and language delays, stuttering, early literacy development and social interaction. Anna is committed to providing high-quality, evidence-based speech pathology services.

Anna's friendly and engaging manner means that she quickly builds trust and rapport with children and their families. She has a passion for educating and empowering parents, caregivers and teachers to better understand their child's / student's learning needs and how to best support them at home and in the classroom.