Charlie Ayling

Charlie is a Speech and Language Therapist based at Birmingham Community NHS Foundation Trust (Advanced Specialist SLT) and Birmingham City University (Lecturer). Charlie is interested in learning more about speech sound disorders as she finds it fascinating, and loves working with children with SSD and their families because she enjoys working out what will work for them and seeing the impact of the progress they make.

Sally Bates

Dr Sally Bates is a senior lecturer on the speech and language therapy programme at Plymouth Marjon University.  She is also a paediatric SLT with a clinical specialism in SSD and has co-authored two speech assessment tools: the PPSA (Phonetic and Phonological Systems Analysis) and CAV-Es (Clinical Assessment of Vowels – English Systems)

Sam Burr

Dr Sam Burr is a Speech and Language Therapist and Research Fellow at Cardiff Metropolitan University.

Read more about her here: https://microsites.cardiffmet.ac.uk/MISLToeSSD/dr-sam-burr/

Vicky Joffe

Victoria Joffe is professor of Speech and Language Therapy and Dean of Integrated Health and Care Partnerships at the University of Essex. Her areas of expertise include working with children and young people with speech sound disorders and developmental language disorder and enhancing their communication, participation and wellbeing.

Hilary McFaul

Hilary is the Professional Lead Speech and Language Therapist of Southern Health and Social Care Trust in Northern Ireland.

Hilary worked clinically with children with Speech Sound Disorders for many years before moving into management.  She is focused on ensuring that the Southern Health and Social Care Trust SLT service is effectively delivering the best evidence-based interventions.  Quality Improvement methodology has supported Southern Health and Social Care Trust’s SLT Team to significantly transform their SSD service delivery model, bringing improved outcomes for children.

Katherine Pritchard

Dr Katherine Pritchard works in the Speech and Language Therapy department at the University of Reading and in the Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit.

She has been interested in child SSD since she qualified as an SLT in 2006 and has always sought out opportunities to learn more about this population of children. She joined the University of Reading in 2014 and teaches SSD to student SLTs. She is particularly interested in how parents and therapists can work together to ensure intervention for children with SSD is delivered at an evidence based level of intensity.

Lucy Rodgers

Dr Lucy Rodgers is a specialist Speech and Language Therapist at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Research Fellow at City St George's. Her interest in SSD stems from seeing the powerful impact of speech and language therapy for children with SSD in clinical practice. Her research explores how best to support children with SSD and language needs. 

Pam Slater

Pam’s daughter has Childhood Apraxia of Speech, a type of SSD. Before her diagnosis, Pam and her family had never heard of this motor speech condition, and are keen to raise awareness of CAS and the importance of early intervention. 

Helen Stringer

Professor Helen Stringer is currently Professor of Childhood Speech Sound Disorders and Behaviour Change at Newcastle University. Her research covers diverse areas, including developmental speech sound disorders, phonological awareness, evaluating interventions and applying behaviour change theory in speech and language therapy. Helen is a member of the [BSLTRU%20website]MISLToe_SSD research team. She was lead author on the RCSLT SSD Guidance, RCSLT CAS Position Paper. Helen developed the phonological awareness resources NAPA and NIPA and led on the development of the NNUTS framework for partnership working between SLTs and schools/settings.

Jill Titterington

Dr Jill Titterington is an independent Speech and Language Therapy Consultant/Researcher and the founder of RADiSSD. Jill has extensive clinical experience and worked for many years in the speech and language therapy department at Ulster University specialising in evidence based speech and language therapy for children with speech sound disorder. She is passionate that children with moderate-severe speech sound disorder receive the amount and type of intervention required to produce the best outcomes for them and their families.

Pam Williams

Dr Pam Williams works independently and mostly runs training workshops online on the subject of Childhood Apraxia of Speech and the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme -3rd edition (of which she is the lead author). She worked as a clinician for almost forty years and continues to be particularly interested in intervention approaches and service delivery issues for children with CAS.

Yvonne Wren

Professor Yvonne Wren works at University of Bristol/Cardiff Metropolitan University/Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit, Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.

Yvonne has had a long term interest in SSD, initially as a clinical speech and language therapist and more recently through her research which includes development of software to use in intervention for SSD and the MISLToe_SSD study which is establishing agreed processes for the diagnosis of subtypes of SSD and also the collection of outcome data.