Staff profile

Dr Simone Arnott (Lees) PhD, Ba (SpPath)

Clinical Education Lecturer, Speech Pathologist and Clinical Educator

Faculty of Health Sciences

School of Allied Health
Department of Human Communication Sciences

HS1 422, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

Bachelor of Speech Pathology, La Trobe University; PhD, University of Sydney

Membership of professional associations

Speech Pathology Australia, Lidcombe Trainers Consortium, Stutttering Interest Group, Speak Easy Association

Area of study

Speech Pathology

Brief profile

Simone coordinates the Paediatric Stuttering Clinic at La Trobe Communication Clinic, is Subject Coordinator of HS5AIB and is a lecturer in the Clinical Education Team. Simone has held a number of roles within the School but has a special interest in stuttering and student education. She has extensive clinical experience in treating stuttering and training students and speech pathologists in the Lidcombe Program. She recently completed her PhD studies with the Australian Stuttering Research Centre at the University of Sydney. Her research investigated the efficacy and efficiency of group delivery of The Lidcombe Program of early stuttering intervention. 

Recent publications

Lees, S., Onslow, M., Packman, A., O’Brian, S. & Block, S. (May 2010). Group Delivery of the Lidcombe Program: Is it more efficient? Paper presented at the Speech Pathology Australia Conference 2010, Melbourne, Australia. 

Lees, S., O’Brian, S., Block, S. & Onslow, M. (Nov 2010). Group Delivery of the Lidcombe Program: A Clinical Trial. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, Philadelphia, USA.   Lees, S., Block, S., O’Brian, S., Onslow, M. & Packman, A. (June 2011). Group Delivery of the Lidcombe Program is efficacious and efficient; but does it belong in your workplace? Paper presented at the Speech Pathology Australia Conference 2011, Darwin, Australia.   Lees, S., Onslow, M., O’Brian, S., Packman, A., Block, S. & Menzies, R. Exploring group delivery of the Lidcombe Program of Early Stuttering Intervention from a theoretical perspective. Paper accepted for presentation at the 9th Oxford Dysfluency Conference, Oxford, UK, September 2011.  

Research projects

Randomised Controlled Trial of Group versus Individual Delivery of the Lidcombe Program of Early Stuttering Intervention