Victoria is a clinical speech pathologist and PhD candidate with over ten years’ industry experience.

She is a published author in peer reviewed journals on the topic of autism and translational research, and a speaker at national speech pathology conferences. She is a guest lecturer in tertiary speech pathology courses and has a track record of supervision of speech pathology students, allied health assistants and early-career clinicians.

Victoria’s professional interest is in complex care. People who experience co-occurring and chronic health conditions or neurodevelopmental disability, require integrated care across services and skilled professionals in multiple clinical specialties. It is Victoria’s ambition to provide exceptional, integrated, and holistic care for people with complex needs and this ambition is reflected in her proactive approach to gaining diverse clinical skills: she has experience providing swallowing and communication services across the lifespan in acute and primary care settings. She is currently employed in a clinical–research–education role with the Queensland Centre of Excellence in Intellectual Disability and Autism Health. She demonstrates her commitment to exceptional care by applying her research skills to translating evidence into clinical and supervisory settings.

Clinical Experience

Clinically, her workplace experience is diverse: she has experience working in neonatal, paediatrics, school-aged and adult caseloads; in tertiary hospitals providing intensive care, acute, and outpatient services. She also has significant clinical experience working in the private practice sector with adults with congenital disabilities and in infant and paediatric services. In the private practice setting Victoria’s service models included home, schools, child-care centres and clinic-based services in both regional and rural areas. Victoria has provided both communication and dysphagia/mealtimes services in all of her clinical roles.

Professional Training

Victoria has completed post-graduate training inclusive of the following: Sequential Oral Sensory approach to feeding (foundation and advanced), Pragmatic Organisation Dynamic Display (AAC), Hanen It Takes Two to Talk, Key Skills of Family Therapy, Learn to Play Therapy, Using and interpreting Sensory Profiles in clinical practice, Easy English training.