CATHERINE GRANT
Consultant Speech Therapist
Catherine is from Manchester, England and has been practising as a Speech Therapist for more than 12 years. She has 5 years of experience working in Singapore and is fully registered under the Allied Health Profession Council (AHPC) in Singapore. She is also a certified AHPC supervisor and has trained many junior Speech Therapists.
Catherine graduated with a First-Class Honours degree in Speech Language and Pathology from Manchester Metropolitan University.
Catherine specialises in working with children with mild to complex needs in clinical practice, Early Intervention Centres, homes and inclusive pre-schools. She has advanced clinical knowledge and skills both in assessing and working with infants, children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Down’s Syndrome, Global Developmental Delay (GDD), Cerebral Palsy, apraxia of speech, phonology, speech and language delay or disorder.
She also has special interests and specialises in feeding difficulties in children and stuttering difficulties in children and adults.
Catherine believes in empowering parents to support their child’s potential through meaningful and enjoyable engagement. Her enthusiasm and encouraging nature helps her to build a strong rapport with children and their families. Catherine is very familiar with working with families from multicultural backgrounds.
Accreditations and Certifications in:
- First Class Honours degree in Speech Language and Pathology (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom)
- Hanen: More than Words
- Makaton For Professionals
- Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding
- Food Selectivity in Children (M. Suarez PhD)
- Feeding Development: Understanding the Spectrum of Eating in Children (Melanie Potock)
- Parent Participation in Responsive Feeding Therapy (Get Permission Institute)
- The Cycle of Effective Feeding Therapy (Get Permission Institute)
- Treating Stuttering in Young Children (S. Yaruss PhD)
- The Fluency Trust: Advanced Dysfluency Training (Swindon NHS Trust/Fluency Trust)
- Palin Parent-Child Interaction Therapy for Early Childhood Stammering (The Palin Centre for Stammering)
- Specific Language Impairments in Children (S. Redmond PhD)
- CAS to Childhood Apraxia of Speech (R. Stoekcel PhD)
- Speech/Resonance Disorders and Velopharyngeal Dysfunction (A. Kummer PhD)
- Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme (NDP3)
- Sensory Modulation in Early Intervention (J.L. Clark)
- Certified Allied Health Professional Council (AHPC) supervisor (Singapore)
- Certified Health Care Professional Council (HCPC) supervisor (UK)