Leadership and Governance Team

Diana Bleby

Director, Certified Practising Speech Pathologist

Diana is the Director and Principal Speech Pathologist of the practice with personal specialisations in school age and adolescent therapy along with her long-term pre-school paediatric speech, language and fluency work. She has over 25 years of experience working in State Education as a field speech pathologist and Senior Speech Pathologist/line manager responsible for the induction of new staff. For 10 years she was employed as a Professional Recognition Assessor with Speech Pathology Australia. She holds a Graduate Certificate in Public Sector Management. As a former State Branch President, she is committed to lobbying for effective and appropriate speech pathology services for all people whatever their walk in life..

Specialisations

• Leadership and Professional Support
• Advocacy for speech pathology clients and professionals
• Professional Development for school and pre-school staff
• Child Speech
• Early, pre-school, school and adolescent language (including Intellectual Disability and ASD)
• Literacy
• Fluency
• German speaking

Deidre Baird

Practice Manager

Deidre has a wealth of experience working in the Home Care and Aged Care Sectors including being a Health and Wellness planner coordinating service providers. Her long history of developing and creating policy in these sectors means that she has a crucial role in ensuring that Good Prospects maintains the highest of standards when it comes to compliance with organisations such as the NDIS, Medicare, SA Health and Private Health Insurance Providers. She is the face of our practice at our main Salisbury office and the person you are most likely to talk to when you first call.

Specialisations

• Practice Manager
• Policy and Practice Development
• Administration
• Adult and Disability Services Advisor

Cindy Leighton

Senior Speech Pathologist – Level 2

Cindy is a talented and experienced speech pathologist of more than 25 years. She holds the role of Team Leader – Speech Pathology whilst like everyone else still seeing some clients. Her primary focus is our Gawler Office and Clare outreach as well as working with Diana and Kim on the professional support program for all staff. She has long term experience with clients who have complex needs and require Augmentative or Alternate communication systems, children with early language needs and language and literacy within the school aged population. She also has a history of working in health with adults with Dysphagia.

Specialisations

• Augmentative and Alternative Communication
• ASD and Intellectual Disability
• School age language and literacy
• Dysphagia or Swallowing
• Leadership and Professional Support

Kim Adams

Senior Speech Pathologist – Level 2

Kim brings a number of highly valuable skills to this practice. As well as an experienced speech pathologist and clinical educator, she is a qualified Teacher of the Deaf and a fluent Auslan speaker. Kim, up until recently has been the Deputy Principal at Klemzig Primary School which has a hearing impaired unit but has now joined Good Prospects on a full-time basis as Team Leader – Speech Pathology. Her leadership skills in this practice across her range of experiences are considered invaluable and she like all senior staff are involved directly in seeing clients.

Specialisations

• Hearing Impairment
• Early, pre-school, school and adolescent language (including Intellectual Disability and ASD)
• Child speech
• Curriculum related issues
• Clinical education
• Auslan speaking
• Leadership and Professional Support