Four speech pathologists, and current wait times
All Certified Practising members of Speech Pathology Australia. Wait times are updated every Monday, because being told “we’ll add you to the list” when your child is falling behind at school is not an answer.
Who you will be booked with
Every one of us runs our own caseload; you keep seeing the same person block to block.
Alice Farnworth
Alice worked in Queensland Health community paediatrics for six years, where the waiting list ran past eighteen months and children aged out of the best window before being seen. The block model here is a direct response to that — she takes on fewer children and finishes with them. She handles the late talkers and the stuttering caseload.
- BSpPath (Hons), University of Queensland
- Certified Practising Speech Pathologist
- Lidcombe Program trained
- Special interest: early language & fluency
Here since 2015 · current wait 4 weeks · sees birth to 6 years
Dev Raghunathan
Dev carries the school-age language and literacy caseload and does most of our school visits. He is direct with parents about the fact that a weekly clinic session cannot compete with a teacher who knows the goals — which is why he would rather see your child at school than here.
- MSpPath, La Trobe University
- Certified Practising Speech Pathologist
- Structured synthetic phonics trained
- Special interest: literacy & dyslexia
Here since 2018 · current wait 2 weeks · sees 5 to 14 years
Nour Haddad
Nour works with autistic children and those using AAC, and she holds most of our NDIS caseload. Her approach is to build communication that works for the child rather than communication that looks typical to everyone else, which some families find refreshing and all of them should be offered.
- BSpPath, Charles Sturt University
- Certified Practising Speech Pathologist
- AAC and speech-generating devices
- Special interest: autism & social communication
Here since 2021 · current wait 3 weeks · sees all ages, NDIS
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty sees preschool speech sound difficulties and paediatric feeding, working alongside a dietitian on the fussy eating cases. She also runs our Thursday after-school list, which is the one that fills first every term.
- MSpPath, University of Queensland
- Certified Practising Speech Pathologist
- Special interest: speech sounds & paediatric feeding
Here since 2023 · current wait 2 weeks · sees 2 to 8 years
First assessments are usually available within three weeks
No referral needed for a first appointment. Ring between 8:30am and 5:30pm weekdays and we will find a time.