Jodi Lipscombe | Head of Department
Jodi.Lipscombe@health.wa.gov.au
Carolin Jentzsch | Senior Speech Pathologist
Carolin.Jentzsch@healh.wa.gov.au
Departmental Overview
The Speech Pathology Department provides inpatient and outpatient services to patients referred with communication and feeding disorders. Our speech pathologists work in partnership with caregivers and other health service providers to provide assessment and management for infants, children and adolescents with communication and/or swallowing difficulties.
Our department is a state-wide service for consultation, second opinion and diagnostic assessment of complex medically based swallowing and communication disorders. Speech Pathology staff provides formal teaching, training and education to undergraduate and postgraduate speech pathologists from Curtin University of Technology and Edith Cowan University.
The speech pathology department has a commitment to supporting best practice service delivery through quality improvement and research partnerships. Our current focus is on the continuing to collaborate and engage with our Curtin and ECU University partners in facilitating and supporting Honours Student research projects.
Current research collaborations
- The development of evidence-based guidelines for prevention and management of respiratory disease in young people with cerebral palsy
- The impact of parent coaching on early communication development with infants and toddlers
- The outcomes of cochlear implant habitation by speech pathology and audiology