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The AATDWA currently has a very enthusiastic and professional Committee
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Meet our AATD WA Committee for 2020
Chairperson & National Rep.
Bronwyn Birch |
Secretary
Roz Davies |
Treasurer
Kara Passi |
National Rep.
Janene Hall |
Leanne Potter
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Kendra Buss
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Zita Ferreira
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Jane Sutherland
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Gail Mullen
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Bronwyn Birch Chairperson &
National Rep. |
I have been a TOD for over 35 years spending most of my working career at Telethon Speech and Hearing. In 2009, I became a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSLS) Cert Auditory Verbal therapst through AG Bell in America. In 2014 I started working with families in their homes, as an AVT, coaching parents who have chosen that their child learns to listen and use spoken language.
My business, ‘Auditory-Verbal Western Australia’ (AVWA) is a Better Start provider and I work in collaboration with ‘Hear at Home.’ I am also a WA NDIS provider and a NDIS provider. I also work at SSEN; S as a Visiting Teacher of the Deaf, on a relief basis. I feel privileged to be able to empower both parents and students to achieve their goals. |
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Leanne Potter
Committee member |
Leanne began teaching hearing students in the ‘70s and moved into Deaf Education in 1981. After 3 and 2 year stints at Mosman Park School for Deaf Children and Swanbourne Deaf Unit, Leanne began as a Visiting Teacher at WAIDE. For 12 years she worked on the University of Melbourne’s Teacher of the Deaf Master’s Program as part of her Level 3 CT duties and was made a Fellow of the University of Melbourne for this work. Leanne then began the Access and Equity position at WAIDE and combined with research in her Masters did further research on Educational Interpreters which she presented at ICED in Vancouver in 2010. During this time she was president of AATD (WA) and was the National Representative. Leanne began her present substantive position as Principal of Shenton College Deaf Education Centre in 2014.
In her spare time, Leanne was on the Board of the WA Deaf Society for 22 years, on the Board of the Emmanuel Centre for 5 years and a pro bono interpreter at Mass for 25 years, served as a councillor for the City of Subiaco for 1 term and presently is a sessional member of the State Administrative Tribunal representing the Education Department. Qualifications - M.Ed. (Melb.), B.Ed. - Deaf (E.C.U), N.A.A.T.I., 1988 (oral), N.A.A.T.I., 1984 (sign), B.Ed (Curtin) , Dip Tch - Claremont Teachers’ College |
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