Ann Parker

Ann is a freelance consultant in Higher Education and a Fellow of RCSLT. Before moving into university teaching, she practised as a speech and language therapist for many years, developing the first specialist speech and language service for deaf children with the Inner London Education Authority in the early 1970s. Ann was the first national Speech Therapy Adviser at the RNID, and later became Head of the RNID Language and Communication Division, co-founding the RCSLT Advanced Specialist course (ASC) for therapists specialising in deafness, which then became a specialist route for the MSc at City University. She has retired from her full time Senior Lectureship at UCL to develop her freelance consultancy and training work, and now works internationally in a range of university settings teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as lecturers and clinical teachers. Ann's current specialist work includes a range of courses and workshops on clinical and university teaching, and she also teaches applied phonetics to undergraduates, practising SLTs and other communication workers in the field of deafness. She is the author of PETAL, the specialist speech assessment for use with deaf children and adults.