Director of Research Dr Sylvia Taylor-Goh
Sylvia brings academic and clinical expertise to her role as Director of Research. A speech and language therapist and Advanced SI Practitioner with a PhD in Clinical Reasoning and Decision Making from King's College London, she is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her career spans clinical practice, higher education, research, and leadership, with interdisciplinary and international collaboration at its core. Chair of the SI SLT Clinical Excellence Network, she presents at national and international conferences and has forthcoming publications in brain injury, interoception, and vestibular-related communication conditions.
Amy Stephens, Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Amy Stephens is a Speech and Language Therapist, a fully qualified Ayres Sensory Integration Therapist and Lecturer in ASI. Working with Deaf people with autism led her to Ayres Sensory Integration and she chooses to use, broadly, an ASI frame of reference in her Speech and Language Therapy. Amy recognises the crucial role that efficient sensory processing plays in engagement, participation and communication.