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Caroline Bowen PhD CPSP
SPEECH PATHOLOGY PRACTICE
 
Location / postal address
Dr Caroline Bowen
9 Hillcrest Road
Wentworth Falls NSW 2782
Australia
61 2 4757 1136 
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How to get there
Click here for detailed travel directions, and here for a map of Wentworth Falls, a small village in a beautiful setting in the Blue Mountains 100Km from the Sydney CBD and 100Km from Bathurst.

Clinical Practice

March 1976 - June 2004
Caroline Bowen practised as a Speech-Language Pathologist in Gordon, NSW from March 1976 until June 2004.The Gordon clinic in suburban Sydney continues to thrive, and details are here.

July 2004 -
With an extensive clinical background in all aspects of child and adolescent communication disorders, nowadays in her clinical work Caroline is mainly involved in the assessment and treatment of children in the zero to five years age-group. Her main clinical interest is young children's language development and disorders, and children's speech sound disorders, including developmental phonological disorders, functional speech disorders, and childhood apraxia of speech (CAS). 

She is also interested in the semantic and pragmatic difficulties, and the language input processing issues associated with the autistic spectrum of disorders, and in word retrieval difficulties.

Caseload: Children 0 to 5 years
Please note that Caroline's current caseload mainly comprises children 0-5, and a few a little older (Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2), who have communication difficulties associated with:

Childhood apraxia of speech (CAS)
Conductive hearing problems (otitis media / "glue ear")
Delayed language development
 
Delayed speech development
 
Developmental disability ("developmental delay")
Developmental phonological disorders
Fluency disorders (stuttering, cluttering)
Functional Speech Disorders including lisping
Semantic and pragmatic difficulties
Semantic pragmatic language disorder
Specific language impairment (SLI) 
Tongue-tie
(Ankyloglossia)
Traumatic brain injury (TBI)
Voice disorders
Word retrieval difficulties 

"Second opinion" assessments
For many years Caroline's practice has included a consultancy service to fellow speech pathologists locally, interstate and internationally, providing second opinions in cases of severe and/or persisting speech sound disorders. In 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 SLPs, and the remaining third by parents and caregivers.

Appointments
Telephone 02 4757 1136 or email to make appointments.

Assessment
The assessment process for children involves taking a detailed history from parent/s, gathering supporting information (e.g., school reports, psychological assessment, audiogram), and assessing the child's communication skills via standardised measures and non-standardised clinical observations. Assessment usually takes from one to three visits. Assessment reports (if requested/required) regarding children go to parents for them to distribute at their discretion.

Reports
All reports go to parents / caregivers for them to distribute at their discretion.

Therapy
The number and frequency of therapy appointments for children varies according to the child and to the disorder. Parents are given an indication of the amount of therapy likely to be needed as soon as possible.

An approximate estimate of how much therapy will be required is usually possible after the assessment is complete, and an even more accurate indication is possible after the third or fourth therapy appointment. 

Pre-school aged children are seen during school hours, preferably on days that they do not normally attend pre-school.

Although there are sometimes problems associated with it (i.e., with regard to coming out of school), it is preferable to see Kindergarten and Year 1 and Year 2 students for appointments before mid-day, especially if they have attention span problems or if they tire easily, as so many speech and language impaired and learning disabled children do.

Fees and insurance
A current  schedule of fees is available by regular mail on request. Fees are always discussed with clients prior to the initial consultation. Speech-Language Pathology fees are GST exempt and are partially covered by private health insurance funds, but not Medicare. Note that most funds will not pay a rebate for report fees. 

Biographical details, professional activities, etc
There is more information about Caroline Bowen here.

 

Caroline Bowen is a Certified Practising Member of Speech Pathology Australia (CPSP), a Life Member of The New South Wales Private Practitioners' Network, and an International Affiliate member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association.

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
 
 

Page updated 29 May 2008

 

         
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