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Caroline Bowen PhD
SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGIST
and enthusiastic amateur web weavers

Dr Caroline Bowen is a Speech-Language Pathologist, an Honorary Associate in Linguistics at Macquarie University (Sydney), a Certified Practising Member of Speech Pathology Australia and a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. With qualifications in speech pathology, speech and drama, and family therapy, and a doctorate in clinical linguistics, her workload comprises a happy mix of clinical practice, presenting continuing professional development (CPD/CEU) events in the area of children's speech sound disorders, research and writing.

Professional Education

1996 PhD Linguistics	Macquarie University Sydney NSW Thesis: Bowen, C. (1996). Evaluation of a phonological therapy with treated and untreated groups of young children. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Macquarie University.
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1989 Dip FTIA Family Therapy	Family Therapy Institute of Australia (Post Graduate Diploma)
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1970 LACST Speech Therapy	Victorian School of Speech & Hearing Science (Professional qualification in Speech-Language Pathology)
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1966 LTCL Speech and Drama	Trinity College London (Teaching Diploma)

Experience
Following five years in the public sector in general hospital and school settings, Caroline was a joint founder in 1976 of an independent Speech Pathology Group Practice in Gordon (Sydney, Australia) which she administered for 28 professionally and personally satisfying years. In that time she assessed and treated thousands of children and adolescents with a range of voice, speech, language, fluency, hearing and social communication challenges, gaining wide experience. This brought with it an appreciation of the role of families in assessment and therapy and prompted Caroline to undertake Family Therapy studies in 1988-1989.

Children's speech sound disorders
As her research interest and expertise in the clinical management of children's speech sound disorders grew, her work became more specialised and by 1994 her caseload consisted primarily of children with phonological and articulation disorders and childhood apraxia of speech. At least half of these children with speech sound disorders had 'other' communication and developmental difficulties such as autism spectrum disorders, craniofacial differences, Down syndrome, fluency disorders, hearing impairment, 'late talking', specific language impairment, traumatic brain injury, visual impairment and Williams syndrome.

Doctoral studies
In 1996 Caroline completed her doctoral studies in the area of intervention for children with phonological disorders and two years later her first book, Bowen, 1998, was published. The intervention approach that she developed and evaluated for her PhD is called Parents and Children Together, or PACT and it is a broad-based approach to phonological therapy in which parents, child and clinician are actively involved.

Wentworth Falls NSW
The scene changed in June 2004 when she and her husband, Don Bowen, relocated and Caroline commenced her solo speech pathology practice in the Blue Mountains village of Wentworth Falls. This allowed more time for Caroline to pursue her interest in writing, present Continuing Professional Development (CPD/CEU) Events for Speech-Language Pathologists and deliver invited talks and workshops for parents, consumer groups and teachers. From June 2004 to December 2009 she continued to treat children with a range of communication issues.

2010
After 38 absorbing years and countless hours of providing speech-language pathology intervention she took the decision that from 2010 her clinical work would be devoted to speech assessments including second or 'expert' opinions. READ MORE Her writing and CPD/CEU work continues unabated!

Writing
Caroline's publications include peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters about the assessment and management of speech sound disorders. She also enjoys writing Webwords the Internet column in 'ACQ' Speech Pathology Australia's triannual clinical and professional journal. Webwords, which addresses a vast gamut of SLP related topics, has appeared in every issue of ACQ since 1999 - the year after she started to write and publish her web site. Her role as the list owner of the useful phonologicaltherapy discussion group also provides an outlet for Caroline's urge to write and helps fulfil her interest in hearing a range of ideas, opinions and evidence in the areas of children's speech development and disorders.

French translation
After years of collaboration with, and hard work by Rachel Fortin, a French translation of Bowen, 1998 was published in Montreal, Canada as Bowen, 2007. A third book, Bowen, 2009 followed. While Caroline's first two books are addressed to the families and teachers of children with phonological disorder in particular, the primary target readership for the 2009 book is clinicians and clinical educators, and it covers the full range of speech sound disorders in children.

New in 2009 'for clinicians by a clinician'
Described by several readers as being 'for clinicians by a clinician', Children's Speech Sound Disorders (Bowen, 2009) addresses the assessment and intervention issues that arise in the day-to-day clinical practice of SLP/SLT colleagues wherever they are. Half of this 430 page book is authored by Dr Bowen herself and half by a galaxy of expert contributors.

It comprises an Introduction, followed by Part 1: A Practical Update containing Chapter 1: The Evolution of Current Practices; Chapter 2: Terminology, Classification, Description and Assessment; Chapter 3: Special Populations; Chapter 4: Intervention Approaches; and Chapter 5: �Common�, �Best� and Evidence-Based Practice.

In Part 2: Speech Intervention in Everyday Practice are Chapter 6: Symptomatic Management of Moderate and Severe Disorders; Chapter 7: Treatment Schedules, Levels and Options; Chapter 8: Targets, Tips, Tricks and Insights; Chapter 9: Working with PACT; and Chapter 10: Directions and Reflections. Finally there is an Index.

Expert essays
Bowen does not cover these topics single-handedly. Rather, she enlists the help of 51 authorities from around the world, posing questions to them that she (and hopefully the reader) would like to ask them about their work in the area of child speech. The result is 49 'expert essays' of up to 2,000 words each. The topics cover an enormous range such as CASANA, craniofacial disorders, cleft palate and velopharyngeal dysfunction, clinical decision making, dynamic assessment, finding the correct dose in speech intervention, second first language learning in internationally adopted children, optimising treatment outcomes with careful therapy target selection, perceptually based intervention, phonemic awareness, quantifying the severity of speech sound disorders, and vowel errors.

The international line-up of contributors makes up a good proportion of the who's who of child speech! They are Elise Baker (Australia), B. May Bernhardt (Canada), John Bernthal (USA), Ken Bleile (USA), Barbara Dodd (Australia), Lynn Flahive (USA), Peter Flipsen Jr (USA), Karen Froud (USA), Hilary Gardner (UK), Fiona Gibbon (Ireland), Gail Gillon (New Zealand), Karen Golding-Kushner (USA), Sharon Gretz (USA), Anne Hesketh (UK), Chantelle Highman (Australia), Megan Hodge (Canada), Barbara Hodson (USA), David Ingram (USA), Debbie James (Australia), Victoria Joffe (UK), Gwen Lancaster (UK), Suze Leitao (Australia), Gregory Lof (USA), Brenda Louw (South Africa), Robert Lowe (USA), Rebecca McCauley (USA), Karen McComas (USA), Sharynne McLeod (Australia), Amy Skinder-Meredith (USA), Benjamin Munson (USA), Adele Miccio (USA), Roslyn Neilson (Australia), Aubrey Nunes (UK), Megan Overby (USA), Michelle Pascoe (South Africa), Karen Pollock (Canada), Thomas Powell (USA), Suzanne Purdy (New Zealand), Mirla Raz (USA), Joan Rosenthal (Australia), Sue Roulstone (UK), Dennis Ruscello (USA), Susan Rvachew (Canada), Ruth Stoeckel (USA), Carol Stoel-Gammon (USA), Judith Stone-Goldman (USA), Edythe Strand (USA), Angela Ullrich (Germany), Nicole Watts Pappas (Australia), A. Lynne Williams (USA) and Pamela Williams (UK).

Pleasing
A unique and pleasing feature of the book from Caroline's perspective is the way the contributors' individual voices can be heard. She hopes the contributors reading the book feel that they know each other better if they were already acquainted, and have a sense of getting to know a colleague and his or her point of view if they were not. Similarly, she hopes all readers gain useful information and a sense of the person responsible for the thinking and research that underpins each essay. A second gratifying aspect is the international feel of the book and its reaching out, with valuable information, to the speech-language pathology clinical world. Thirdly, writing the book and communicating and collaborating with the contributors and the production team was an unforgettable, rewarding and inspiring experience.

Workshops, seminars, master classes, courses
Caroline has presented invited continuing professional development (CPD/CEU) events to groups of speech-language pathologists and students throughout Australia and in many other parts of the world including Canada, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore and the United States.

Details of current and recent presentations can be found by clicking here. Note that as well as presenting to speech-language pathologists nationally and internationally, Caroline appreciates the opportunity to develop invited lectures and workshops for teachers, parents and special interest groups.

CPD/CEU Enquiries
Interested parties can contact Dr Bowen by telephone +61 2 4757 1136 or email to discuss CPD/CEU needs and potential events in their country or region. An up-to-date curriculum vitae is available on request, as well as presentation fee details and audiovisual, travel and accommodation requirements. Suggestions for topics are always welcome.

Clinical practice
Since 1994 Dr Caroline Bowen's clinical practice has included a consultancy service to fellow speech-language pathologists locally, interstate and internationally, providing expert opinions in cases of moderate, severe and/or persisting speech sound disorders. The fee for this service is met by the child's family at the time of consultation. Children have come from the local area and throughout Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, South East Asia and the Pacific, the UK and the US.

SECOND OPINIONS FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE RECEIVING INTERVENTION
When providing these assessments Caroline prefers to communicate with each child's treating speech-language pathologist. About two thirds of second opinions are initiated by treating speech pathologists with questions about diagnosis and management, and the remaining third by parents, care-givers and occasionally teachers. READ MORE

SPEECH ASSESSMENTS FOR CHILDREN WHO ARE NOT RECEIVING INTERVENTION
Caroline also provides assessments and short term management advice for parents of children with difficult-to-understand speech who are not (for a range of reasons including geographical isolation) receiving speech-language pathology treatment. READ MORE

Professional activities and honours
A strong advocate for her profession, Caroline is active in several capacities as a Speech Pathology Australia member. In 1986 she was delighted to be made a Life Member of the Private Speech Pathologists� Association of New South Wales (later to become the NSW Private Practitioners' Network) for services to professional practice. She was honoured to receive Speech Pathology Australia's Elinor Wray Award for 2000 for services to the profession. In 2003 she had the privilege of presenting the annual Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture at the Speech Pathology Australia convention in Hobart, Tasmania. The paper was entitled Harnessing the Net: A Challenge for Speech-Language Pathologists. Then, in 2005 she was the Speech Pathology Australia National Tour speaker, and in 2008 she was elected as an ASHA Fellow.

Selected Publications
PEER REVIEWED
Bowen, C. (1998). Developmental phonological disorders: A practical guide for families and teachers. Melbourne: The Australian Council for Educational Research Ltd. HERE

Bowen, C. (2000). PACT: Collaboration avec les familles et les enseignants r��ducation phonologique. R��ducation Orthophonique, 203, Septembre, 11-17.

Bowen, C. (2007). Les difficult�s phonologiques chez l'enfant : guide � l'intention des familles, des enseignants et des intervenants en petite enfance / Caroline Bowen ; Rachel Fortin, traductrice et adaptatrice. Montr�al: Cheneli�re-�ducation. PUBLISHER

Bowen, C., & Cupples, L. (1998). A tested phonological therapy in practice. Child Language Teaching and Therapy. 14, 1, 29-50. FULL TEXT

Bowen, C., & Cupples, L. (1999a). Parents and children together (PACT): a collaborative approach to phonological therapy. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. 34, 1, 35-55. FULL TEXT

Bowen, C., & Cupples, L. (1999b). A phonological therapy in depth: a reply to commentaries. International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders. 34, 1, 65-83. FULL TEXT

Bowen, C., & Cupples, L. (2004). The role of families in optimising phonological therapy outcomes. Child language Teaching and Therapy, 20, 3, 245-260. FULL TEXT

Bowen, C. & Cupples, L. (2006). PACT: Parents and children together in phonological therapy. Advances in Speech Language Pathology, 8, 3, 282-292. Copyright 2006 Speech Pathology Australia. Uploaded with permission. FULL TEXT

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Bowen, C. (1998). Give me five: A broad-based approach to phonological therapy. Communications Ahead. Dunedin: New Zealand Speech-Language Therapists� Association Biennial Conference Proceedings. FULL TEXT

Bowen, C. (2003b). Harnessing the Net: A challenge for Speech Language Pathologists. The 2003 Elizabeth Usher Memorial Lecture. In C. Williams & S. Leitao (Eds), Nature, Nurture, Knowledge, Proceedings of the Speech Pathology Australia National Conference, Hobart. pp. 9-20. FULL TEXT

BOOK CHAPTERS
Bowen, C. (2003). Phonological Disorders. Learning Disabilities Sourcebook, 2nd edn. Health Reference Series Detroit: Omnigraphics.

Bowen, C. (in press). Parents and Children Together (PACT). In Williams, A.L., McCauley, R. E. & McLeod, S. (Eds.). Interventions for Speech Sound Disorders in Children. Baltimore: Paul Brookes.

Watts Pappas, N., & Bowen, C. (2007). Speech Acquisition and the Family. In McLeod, S. (Editor). The International Guide to Speech Acquisition. Clifton Park, N.Y.: Thomson Delmar Learning. 86-90.

Selected Publications
NON-PEER REVIEWED
Bowen, C. (2002, Winter). My top ten resources. Speech and Language Therapy in Practice. HERE

Bowen, C. (2005, October). What is the evidence for...? Oral motor therapy. ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing, Speech Pathology Australia, 7, 3,144-147. FULL TEXT

Kuster, J. M., & Bowen, C. (2002, June). Fluency and fluency disorders: Discussion forums and web sites. ACQuiring Knowledge in Speech, Language and Hearing, Speech Pathology Australia, 4, 2, 75-77. FULL TEXT

Webwords Columns, 1999 -

Personal
Caroline's top leisure pursuits are international travel, reading, writing, bushwalking (but not often enough) and dining out. She is passionate about social justice, Aboriginal reconciliation, native title, conservation, Film Sound Australia, the ABC, Speech Pathology Australia and her profession. Her favourite places in the world are Sydney and London; the villages of St Fillans in Scotland, and Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains, NSW; and New Zealand - all of it!

She is proud of her three grown up children, Philippa (Pip), Barnaby (Ba), and Luke, and her lovely grandson Jonathan, born on August 29, 2007. She enjoys their company, and the company of David (Pip's husband), and Rachael (Luke's partner) as well as good coffee, classical music, the visual arts and gardening. And the icing on the cake is being married to Don Bowen PhD.

Projects, new ventures, expertise requests
Caroline Bowen is enthusiastically engaged in consultancy for several ongoing international projects in the areas of professional publication, web site content development and children's television. She is keenly interested in receiving consulting offers, invitations to consider academic and clinical teaching opportunities, suggestions for new ventures and collaboration and expertise requests.

Contact
Dr Caroline Bowen
Speech-Language Pathologist
9 Hillcrest Road
Wentworth Falls NSW 2782
Australia
T: +61 2 4757 1136
F: +61 2 4757 1598
email

Caroline Bowen PhD, CPSP is a Certified Practising Member of Speech Pathology Australia (CPSP), a Life Member of The New South Wales Private Practitioners' Network, an International Affiliate member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association, and an ASHA Fellow. A current Curriculum Vitae is available on request.

Page updated February 04, 2010

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