Early Intervention
Early intervention with speech and hearing problems in children is important for speech and development.
Early intervention with speech and hearing problems in children is important for speech and development.
Our services for children include paediatric hearing assessments and speech therapy.
Our services for Adults include hearing assessment and screening and hearing aid programming.
Kathy spent 4 years working as an Audiologist in Canada before moving to Australia in 2000. She had been working as an Audiologist in Fremantle and Perth and moved to the southwest in 2010. She is skilled in fitting children and adults with hearing aids and dealing with more complex communication difficulties. She is a highly knowledgeable audiologist with 18 years’ experience in the industry. Kathy has worked with all the major hearing aid manufacturer’s hearing aids.
Kathy has worked within the Office of Hearing Services hearing aid program for 14 years providing free hearing assessments and free hearing aids to pensioners. Kathy has her current practising certificates from the Audiological Society of Australia and Speech Language and Audiology Canada.
Kathy is known for her wonderful baking skills and says that if she was not an audiologist she would be a pastry chef.
She prides herself on providing a friendly, helpful service and likes to solve problems and customer queries as they arise.
Kim has lived in Busselton for 25 years with her background being in both the Real Estate and Optical Industries.
Eimear (pronounced “eema”) O’Brien graduated from Human Communication Science (Speech Pathology) at Curtin University in 2004 and went on to do her Masters in Clinical Audiology at the University of Melbourne and graduated in 2006.
From 2007 to 2012 she gained experience working in a variety of hearing clinics in Perth and in the South West. Throughout her working career Eimear has worked in nearly every aspect of clinical Audiology; including pre-operative diagnostics for a leading Ear Nose and Throat Surgeon, she has extensive knowledge of hearing instruments. Eimear is familiar with all of the major hearing manufacturer’s hearing aids, she has worked in the areas of tinnitus and cochlear implantation and is very experienced in assessing children of all ages. She also has worked within the Office of Hearing Services hearing aid program for 6 years providing free hearing testing and free hearing aids to pensioners. Eimear has current practising certificates from the Audiological Society of Australia, Speech Pathology Australia, Work Cover and Mines Health Surveillance.
Eimear is married to Aaron who is a winemaker, and they enjoy living on a family vineyard in Wilyabrup.