Our dynamic team is made up of only experienced, fun and enthusiastic speech pathologists who love working with a general paediatric caseload.  Many have areas of special interest.

Kathryn (Kat) Waugh
Kat is the owner and
Principal  Speech 
Pathologist of Bubbles
Speech Pathology, (not to mention being mother of 4 children).  She has been providing communication
assessments and therapy
for children in Perth,  Trinidad & Tobago and in the UK for over 20 years. Her experience spans across Child Development Centres, schools, Disability Services Commission and several hospitals, both internationally and locally. 

Kat's interest is working with young children and their families to provide the best outcomes in the years before school and early school age.  She particularly enjoys working with children with neurodiversity, developmental delay and late talkers.  She is a trained Hanen Therapist (It Takes Two To Talk, More Than Words), providing programs that are tailored for young children who have a language delay. She also has training in stuttering, including the Lidcombe Program for Young Stutterers (which helps young children who are stuttering achieve normal fluency in their speech).  In addition, she is PROMPT (Introductory Level) and  DIR Floortime trained.  


Feline van Brakel
Feline is a certified PROMPT therapist - one of only 6 speech pathologist in Australia and has extensive experience working with children with motor speech difficulties.

Given Feline's Dutch background, a therapist with experience in bilingual considerations is a welcome addition to the team.  Feline has over 16 years experience in working with an array of areas relating to speech and language, across early intervention and providing services to the school aged population.   She is also trained in the Lidcombe Program for Early Intervention of Stuttering.


Jasmine Martin
Jasmine has vast experience in a range of clinical settings, across various countries (although we are not sure that "working" in the Caribbean constitutes work).  Jasmine is PROMPT trained (Bridging Level), is an advanced Lidcombe Program therapist and has received Hanen (It Takes Two To Talk, More Than Words), Sounds Write, Floortime DIR 101 training. Jasmine also has a keen interest in Developmental Language Delay.   At the end of her day, she returns to her busy family life with three children.


Jemma Barion
Jemma joined the BSP team in 2022 bring 20 years of experience working with children. She enjoys working with children under 10 years of age and has extensive experience in school age language and speech sound disorders. Jemma is also a busy mum to 3 young children including twins!


Sandra Gerbaz
Sandra brings over 20 years of clinical experience (in child development centres, schools and private practice) to Bubbles.   She brings advanced skill levels to providing management for school aged speech and language services, with a span from 3 years to 8 years.  She has PROMPT Bridging Level, Hanen (ITTTT, ABC and Beyond) and Sounds Write training.


Jeni Brennan 
Jeni has a keen interest in working with families to promote positive outcomes for children who experience speech and/or language delay/disorder. As a mother of three children, one of whom experienced motor speech difficulties, Jeni has first-hand knowledge and understanding from both the perspective of a parent and a speech pathologist. As an early client of Bubbles, Jeni was inspired to pursue a career in speech pathology and has not looked back! She has experience working with children in various school environments, language development centres and government and private settings. She is trained in Sounds-Write, Talk for Writing and PROMPT (Introductory Level) and has a clinical interest in literacy, phonological delay/disorder and Developmental Language Disorder. Jeni is passionate about supporting families, making therapy fun and empowering children to realise their potential!


Tania Rodwell  
Tania is a mum of 3 boys who has worked as a Speech Pathologist in various government, private and not for profit sectors for over 20 years. Tania was the Founder and Director of early intervention clinic Little Language Centre. She has also worked as Special Education Consultant in the Catholic Education sector, school-based Speech Pathologist and Autism Diagnostician. In more recent years she has held positions of Board Member and Project Manager of the TOBY early intervention app at Autism West. Tania has specialist training in Sounds Write and is PROMPT trained (Introductory Level).

Tania is passionate about making speech pathology functional in daily life, and more importantly, making it fun!


Jess Cayoun
Jessica Cayoun will be returning to Bubbles on Saturday mornings from mid July 2024 offering a Saturday Assessment Clinic. She will be available for autism diagnostic assessment (Speech and Language component), Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) diagnostic assessments and Language Development Centre referral applications.

Jess has over 20 years experience specialising in supporting language, communication and play development in children 0-16 years of age. She has held senior positions across private, government health departments and educational departments. 


Michelle Metaxas
Michelle brings over 20 years of experience and expertise working both in the public and private sector working with children 0 - 10 years of age. 

She has a partiulcar expeterise and interest i working with children with speech sound disorders, language delay, feeding and stuttering difficulties.   

Michelle is a busy mum of two young children. 


Lee-anne Bell
Lee-anne bring over 10 years' experience to the Bubbles Speech Pathology team.

She has worked providing both clinic-based and outreach speech pathology services in a major regional centre and as a senior clinician in the NHS in London. She is a busy mum of two young girls and enjoys working with speech and language difficulties across the early years and with school age clients. 


Elaine Schneiker
Elaine has worked in various clinical and research settings and brings 15 years of industry experience to Bubbles. Elaine is also a busy mum of 2 high-energy children so she understands the parenting juggle! 

She is certified in Hanen ITTT (It Takes Two to Talk), Sounds Write, Lidcombe Intervention, and ADOS-2 autism assessment (speech and language component). She has specialist skills in linguistic analysis of conversation and has published in this area and presented at interstate and international conferences. Elaine has a keen interest in DLD (Developmental Language Delay), early literacy (kindy to yr 3) and neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia). Elaine takes the time to build connection and trust with your child and incorporates their interests and strengths into therapy. She is committed to helping families achieve goals that are functional and meaningful to them.

Ange Tayler 
Read about our amazing founding speech pathologist Ange Tayler here. https://www.bubbles-speech.com.au/vale-ange-tayler/