Pauline Hatty

Pauline has practised Speech Pathology since 1993. She has worked as a senior clinician in both the public and private sector across her career, and has specialised in working with children since 1995.

Pauline has worked across the hospital, pre-school and school settings, as well as in private practice. She has worked on a number of Developmental Assessment Teams, collaborating with a Paediatrician and Occupational Therapist, to assist in the assessment and diagnosis of young children with developmental difficulties. She is currently part of a multi disciplinary Autism Assessment Team, that is located within the western suburbs.

Pauline has a high level of experience working with a Paediatric caseload, and a particular interest in the areas of Autism Spectrum Disorder, as well as dyspraxia.

Chantell Palermo

Chantell has practised Speech Pathology since 2002. She has worked as a clinician in both the public and private sector, and has specialised with the paediatric population over her career. Chantell has worked within the school, hospital and private practice setting, and has extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of a variety of pre-school and school aged speech, language and learning disorders. She has worked specifically on a Learning Difficulties Assessment team, and strongly believes in collaborating with other professionals, in order to obtain the best overall picture of a child’s developmental and/or learning needs. Chantell has a particular interest in Autism Spectrum Disorder, school-aged learning difficulties and preschool language disorder/delay. Chantell is trained in the Hanen ‘It Takes Two to Talk’ program and the Hanen ‘More Than Words’ program, the Secret Agent Society (a social training program), as well as PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System).

Lucy Adams

Lucy has practised Speech Pathology since 2008. She began her career in community health, working as part of multi-disciplinary teams to assess and provide therapy to preschool children.

She then transferred this family-centred approach to private practice, working with families of children aged from two to ten years.

She has extensive experience running group programs and a particular interest in early childhood stuttering, preschool speech and language delays and Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Lucy is trained in the Lidcombe Program (for preschool children who stutter), Social Thinking, Cued Articulation and PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System).