Monica Bray

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Monica Bray has worked as a speech and language therapist all her working life. She has worked in South Africa, America and England and has had a variety of posts. She began working with children with learning difficulties in the USA where she was lucky enough to be part of the early days of both behavioural programmes and family therapy.

She took up a post in Leeds as Senior Therapist in Learning Disability in the late 1970s and worked in special schools and centres for adults until she entered the lecturing profession in 1985.

The rest of her full-time working career was spent lecturing in fluency disorders, in learning difficulties and in counselling as well as running a clinic with students which provided group therapy for either adults with learning difficulties and their carers of children and their parents.

During this time Monica pursued two Master's degrees - one where she investigated the way in which adults with Down's syndrome view their own speech and language, and the other in which she achieved competence in the area of counselling and applied this to those with learning difficulties.

Monica has co-authored a book on the clinial process in speech and language therapy as well as contributing chapters to 4 books on Down's syndorme, the social disadvantages felt by adults with learning difficulties and working with parents.

Monica has spoken at conferences and written papers on the problems of fluency in Down's syndrome and she has recently completed a research project on stammering and the telephone.

Now she is retired(!), Monica is thrilled to be given this opportunity to work with children with Down's syndrome, their parents and their educators. She has always been keen to keep her own knowledge and skills up to scratch and working alongside others who have intimate knowledge of children and their speech and language development will be a great pleasure.

Monica is looking forward to working with the Education Centre for Children with Down Syndrome.