“Every person has a voice. Our role is to make sure it is heard.”
I am Speech and Language Therapist with over 24 years of experience across healthcare, rehabilitation and developmental services in the UAE and Lebanon. Throughout my career, I have combined clinical practice with leadership, service development and multidisciplinary care, with a strong focus on building services that are collaborative, evidence-based and responsive to the needs of children and families.
In leadership roles, I have supported the development and transformation of Allied Health services, built multidisciplinary teams, established clinical programmes and pathways, strengthened clinical governance, and developed partnerships with schools, nurseries and healthcare professionals. I value supportive leadership, professional development and creating environments where different disciplines can work together effectively to provide coordinated care.
As a clinician, I work with children and adolescents with speech, language and communication needs, neurodevelopmental differences, autism, literacy and learning difficulties, fluency disorders, AAC needs, pediatric feeding disorders and selective eating. Early intervention and family-centred care are central to my practice, particularly parent coaching and supporting communication within everyday routines and environments.
My approach is grounded in evidence-based and neurodiversity-affirming practice, recognising each individual’s strengths, differences and preferred ways of communicating. Above all, I believe that communication is a fundamental right for all, and this principle continues to guide both my clinical work and my leadership.
Areas of Practice
- Speech sound disorders – articulation difficulties, phonological disorders, and reduced speech intelligibility
- Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) and receptive, expressive, or mixed language difficulties
- Language delay / late language emergence in toddlers and preschool children
- Social communication and pragmatic language difficulties
- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) – communication, interaction, play, pragmatic language, and functional communication needs
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) – supporting minimally speaking and nonspeaking children
- Specific Learning Disorders – particularly dyslexia and dysorthographia, including difficulties with reading, spelling, phonological processing, and written language
- Reading comprehension and higher-level language difficulties – including inferencing, narrative skills, vocabulary, and verbal reasoning
- Fluency disorders – including developmental stuttering
- Communication difficulties associated with developmental, neurodevelopmental, cognitive, or complex needs
- Pediatric Feeding Disorder (PFD) – difficulties with age-appropriate oral intake involving feeding skills, sensory, medical, nutritional, and/or psychosocial factors
- Picky/selective eating – restricted food repertoire, food refusal, difficulty accepting new foods, and sensory-related food preferences
- Early intervention and parent coaching – family-centred, parent-implemented intervention that empowers parents and caregivers to support their child’s communication, language, play, joint attention, and social interaction through responsive strategies embedded within everyday routines
- School-age academic language difficulties – including following complex instructions, verbal memory, vocabulary, classroom communication, and curriculum-related language
- Adolescent communication needs – including conversation skills, social communication, functional language, and self-advocacy
- Multidisciplinary assessment and intervention for children with complex developmental and communication profiles.
- Bachelor’s degree, Speech and Language Therapy
Certifications & Professional Training
- Bayley 4 Scales of Infant and Toddler Development
- Autistic Diagnostic Observation Schedule – 2 (Ados 2)
- Sos Approach to Feeding
- More Than Words® — The Hanen Program® for Parents of Autistic Children
- Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme (Ndp3® Level 1,2,3 & 4)
- It Takes Two to Talk® — The Hanen Program® for Parents of Children with Language Delays
- Makaton (Level 1,2,3 & 4)
- Talktools® 3-Part Treatment Plan for Opt™
- Aac Intervention
- Lidcombe Programme
