Stacy Tan
Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours), Australia
Master of Neuroscience, Language and Communication, United Kingdom
AHPC registration number: A1300567C
MEMBERSHIP
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Allied Health Professional Council (Full Reg)
SENIOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPIST
Stacy believes in helping each child to reach his or her fullest potential through close collaboration and partnership with families, caregivers, teachers, and therapists.
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Stacy began her career as a scholar with the Ministry of Health. With over 14 years of experience in a public children’s hospital, Stacy has worked extensively in the Neonatal and Children’s Intensive Care Units (NICU, CICU), high-dependency wards, and outpatient settings. Her expertise lies in supporting children with developmental delays and medically complex conditions, including those requiring ventilators, tracheostomies, and feeding tubes. She also has experience working in Early Intervention, and excels at supporting language and speech development via a naturalistic, play based approach.
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She specialises in feeding therapy and communication therapy. She works with infants and children with feeding challenges such as oral aversion, food refusal, Pediatric Feeding Disorders (PFD), and swallowing impairments (dysphagia). Additionally, she provides intervention for speech and language delays, and has supported children with a variety of conditions such as Global Developmental Delay (GDD), genetic conditions, and neurodevelopmental disorders.
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As a clinical supervisor and mentor, Stacy has leveraged her advanced clinical expertise to develop training curricula and provide clinical training for other speech therapists. She has been trained/certified in the following clinical approaches:
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Feeding Therapy: A Sensory Motor Approach
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Transdisciplinary Effective Assessment and Treatment (TR-eat®) model for treatment of complex feeding problems
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Hanen Certified: It Takes Two to Talk
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Introduction to PROMPT: Technique
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Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)