About Dr Brenda Carey
Brenda Carey is the founder and director of the Stuttering Treatment Centre in Melbourne. Brenda has been interested in stuttering in people of all ages, leading her to focus exclusively on this area of practice.
Brenda completed her PhD after being awarded a scholarship from the Australian Stuttering Research Centre (ASRC), where her research concerned telepractice delivery of the Camperdown Program for adults who stutter. She now consults by telepractice with people around the world of all ages who stutter, enabling them to access evidence-based practice. She has extensive experience in the Lidcombe Program for pre-schoolers, and has also treated many adolescents and adults who stutter using various methods including the Smooth Speech Program and the Camperdown Program. Brenda is an author on both the Lidcombe Program and Camperdown Program Treatment Guides.
As a member of the Lidcombe Program Trainers Consortium and the Camperdown Program Trainers Consortium, she presents workshops to speech pathologists in Australia and internationally. She has trained more than a thousand speech pathologists in the Lidcombe and Camperdown programs in Australia, Singapore, Canada, and Israel. In Japan alone she is responsible for having trained 300 speech pathologists in the Lidcombe Program.
Brenda is an Honorary Associate at the Australian Stuttering Research Centre and a clinical educator at the La Trobe University Communication Clinic. She is engaged in clinical research, mentors clinicians and provides second opinions. She has published her research in several international journals. Brenda was a keynote speaker at the Oxford Dysfluency Conference in 2014 and at the International Conference on Stuttering in Rome in 2015. In 2018, Brenda presented a paper at the 3rd International Conference on Stuttering in Rome and in 2019 she was an invited presenter at the Japan Society of Stuttering and Other Fluency Disorders Conference (JSSFD). She is currently involved in writing a Lidcombe Program text with co-editors from the ASRC. She is the Convenor of the Victorian Stuttering Interest Group, which provides support and professional development for Speech Pathologists.
Brenda remains passionate about continuing her own education and understanding of stuttering, with the aim of bringing the best of what she learns to her centre in Melbourne.
Brenda consults from the Malvern East centre on Fridays, and consults via telepractice on other days.
Brenda's most recent research publications:
Santayana G., Carey B., & Shenker R.C. (2021). No other choice: Speech-Language Pathologists' attitudes toward using telepractice to administer the Lidcombe Program during a pandemic. Journal of Fluency Disorders. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2021.105879. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34624789.
Lefort, M.K.R., Erickson, S., Block, S., Carey, B & St. Louis, K.O. (2021) Australian attitudes towards stuttering: a cross-sectional study, Journal of Fluency Disorders, in publication, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2021.105865.
Yandeau, E., Carey, B., & Onslow, M. (2021). The Lidcombe Program: A client report 7 years post-treatment. Speech, Language and Hearing, in publication, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2021.1923304
Carey, B., Onslow, M., & O'Brian, S. (2020). Natural recovery from stuttering for a clinical cohort of pre-school children who received no treatment. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1746399
The following speech pathologists practice at Brenda Carey’s clinic:
Dr Kylie Smith
Ms Fiona Ross
Ms Peta Newell
Ms Margaret Olczak
Dr Shane Erickson
Ms Tish Drakopoulos
Ms Ishita Budd
Ms Rosie Zocco
Ms Constance Alateras
Ms Merrin Torpy
Dr Anna Hearne
Brenda completed her PhD after being awarded a scholarship from the Australian Stuttering Research Centre (ASRC), where her research concerned telepractice delivery of the Camperdown Program for adults who stutter. She now consults by telepractice with people around the world of all ages who stutter, enabling them to access evidence-based practice. She has extensive experience in the Lidcombe Program for pre-schoolers, and has also treated many adolescents and adults who stutter using various methods including the Smooth Speech Program and the Camperdown Program. Brenda is an author on both the Lidcombe Program and Camperdown Program Treatment Guides.
As a member of the Lidcombe Program Trainers Consortium and the Camperdown Program Trainers Consortium, she presents workshops to speech pathologists in Australia and internationally. She has trained more than a thousand speech pathologists in the Lidcombe and Camperdown programs in Australia, Singapore, Canada, and Israel. In Japan alone she is responsible for having trained 300 speech pathologists in the Lidcombe Program.
Brenda is an Honorary Associate at the Australian Stuttering Research Centre and a clinical educator at the La Trobe University Communication Clinic. She is engaged in clinical research, mentors clinicians and provides second opinions. She has published her research in several international journals. Brenda was a keynote speaker at the Oxford Dysfluency Conference in 2014 and at the International Conference on Stuttering in Rome in 2015. In 2018, Brenda presented a paper at the 3rd International Conference on Stuttering in Rome and in 2019 she was an invited presenter at the Japan Society of Stuttering and Other Fluency Disorders Conference (JSSFD). She is currently involved in writing a Lidcombe Program text with co-editors from the ASRC. She is the Convenor of the Victorian Stuttering Interest Group, which provides support and professional development for Speech Pathologists.
Brenda remains passionate about continuing her own education and understanding of stuttering, with the aim of bringing the best of what she learns to her centre in Melbourne.
Brenda consults from the Malvern East centre on Fridays, and consults via telepractice on other days.
Brenda's most recent research publications:
Santayana G., Carey B., & Shenker R.C. (2021). No other choice: Speech-Language Pathologists' attitudes toward using telepractice to administer the Lidcombe Program during a pandemic. Journal of Fluency Disorders. doi: 10.1016/j.jfludis.2021.105879. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34624789.
Lefort, M.K.R., Erickson, S., Block, S., Carey, B & St. Louis, K.O. (2021) Australian attitudes towards stuttering: a cross-sectional study, Journal of Fluency Disorders, in publication, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfludis.2021.105865.
Yandeau, E., Carey, B., & Onslow, M. (2021). The Lidcombe Program: A client report 7 years post-treatment. Speech, Language and Hearing, in publication, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/2050571X.2021.1923304
Carey, B., Onslow, M., & O'Brian, S. (2020). Natural recovery from stuttering for a clinical cohort of pre-school children who received no treatment. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2020.1746399
The following speech pathologists practice at Brenda Carey’s clinic:
Dr Kylie Smith
Ms Fiona Ross
Ms Peta Newell
Ms Margaret Olczak
Dr Shane Erickson
Ms Tish Drakopoulos
Ms Ishita Budd
Ms Rosie Zocco
Ms Constance Alateras
Ms Merrin Torpy
Dr Anna Hearne
