Jane Mott (Brisbane).  
AVA President
Speech Pathologist & Voice Consultant

Private Practice
P O Box 949
Toowong  Qld  4066
Ph 61 7 3870 3882  Fax 61 7 3870 3882
Mobile 0414 835 431
Email janemott@ozemail.com.au 

Jane is a Speech Pathologist and Voice Consultant with over 30 years in Private Practice in Brisbane.  She works extensively with Professional Voice Users including Singers, Actors, Teachers, Journalists, Ministers of Religion, Politicians and Presenters and students of these professions.  She has a passion for voice – investigation, research,  quality and care. 

Jane acts as Consultant, Drama Department, Academy of the Arts, Queensland University of Technology, has presented Professional Development for Speech Pathologists, Teachers, Librarians, Music Teachers, Singers and both undergraduate and postgraduate students. She is a Foundation Member & previous Board Member of the Australian Voice Association, is a member of the Queensland Multi Disciplinary Voice Interest Group and Speech Pathology Australia and has a particular interest in Performing Arts Medicine.

Jane is committed to working for the advancement of the Australian Voice Association and the enhancement and well being of all voices.

Adele Nisbet (Brisbane)
AVA Vice President and Foundation Editor of Australian Voice
Lecturer in Voice and Vocal Pedagogy (singing), Researcher, Singer

Queensland Conservatorium
Griffith University
PO Box 3428
South Bank Q 4101 AUSTRALIA
Phone: 61 7 3735 6231; Fax: 61 7 3735 6282
Email: a.nisbet@griffith.edu.au

Adele is a Lecturer in Voice and Vocal Pedagogy, and the Head of Vocal, Division of Opera and Vocal Studies at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

Her focus is primarily on her studio teaching and lecturing within the Conservatorium. However, her doctoral work is on the acquisition of motor skills and the teaching and learning of singing.

Other research interests include learning theory as it applies to singing, the acquisition of expertise and the rehabilitation of the dysfunctional voice.  She set up the first voice lab in an Australian University in 1994 which still operates offering spectrographic analysis as a tool for examining and understanding vocal tone.

As a soprano, she is an experienced recitalist and has sung as soloist in many of the great works from the choral canon. She was co-founder and soprano with the vocal sextet Jones & Co in the 80’s and 90’s performing both nationally and internationally. 

She is the founding Editor of Australian Voice, Journal of the Australian National Association of Teachers of Singing and a past president of the AVA. 

Helen Tiller(MA)
Clinical Voice Consultant
Speech, Voice, Singing and Remediation

Ph: (08) 8332 0136
Fax: (08) 8332 0139
Email: helen.j.tiller@gmail.com
PO Box 405,
BURNSIDE 5066
SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Sharon Moore
Treasurer  

45 Waterfall Drive
Jerrabomberra  NSW  2619  
Ph 0466 501 248
Email londonmoores@googlemail.com

Sharon Moore is a Speech Pathologist trained at Flinders University Adelaide, graduating in 1980.

Her career has provided experience with paediatric and adult populations, in  SA Ed Dept, C.A.M.H.S., Cochlear Sydney, Private Practice ( totalling10 years in Adelaide and Canberra), The Canberra Hospital  and St Thomas's Hospital in London.

All  jobs provided an opportunity to practice in the voice area, culminating  as a Voice Specialist in London which included weekly diagnostic voice clinics.

It has always been a pleasure working with voice patients, unravelling the  threads that contribute to the complex tapestry of their voice, and its dysfunction.

Future goals as a voice specialist aim toward setting up a diagnostic voice clinic to provide multi-disciplinary diagnostic voice services for the ACT region.

Jan Baker
Public Officer

22 Howard Tce
Hazelwood Park, SA 5066

Johanna Flavell (Adelaide)
AVA Board member
Speech Pathologist, Voice Consultant

PO Box 117
Stirling, SA 5152
Phone: 0407 610 452
jaflavell2@bigpond.com

Johanna is a speech pathologist specialising in the diagnosis and treatment of voice disorders.

She works in private practice and on a part-time basis at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, where she coordinates the Voice Analysis Clinic as well as the Diagnostic and Treatment clinic for Spasmodic Dysphonia.

She also presents extensively in the area of voice injury prevention / voice safety promotion for professional voice users and has presented this work within the international Health Promoting Hospitals / Safe and Healthy Communities networks’ European meetings. Clinical research interests include asthma, dysphonia and chronic cough, and physical therapy for the release of voice / cough related musculoskeletal tension.

She is an eclectic therapist and casts her professional development net widely, and has, for example, undertaken training in Cranio-Sacral Therapy and Somato-Emotional Release under the auspices of the Upledger Institute in the USA. 

Johanna is a passionate singer but is regularly informed that this is an activity best undertaken in the privacy of her car.

Julia Moody
AVA Board Member
Voice Lecturer (Speech), Voice Consultant

Julia Moody has a Bachelor of Arts from Curtin University (Perth), a Graduate Diploma in Voice Studies from NIDA (Sydney), is a fully accredited Associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, and did her actor training at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the United Kingdom.

Julia has performed as an actor in Theatre, Film, TV, and Radio with companies right across Australia. She has worked as a Voice trainer and Consultant in the professional media with SBS TV and Radio since 1994, and with various other companies such as Channel 10, Open Channel, Public Radio News, 5UV, and 6PR.

She has run specially designed voice training sessions for professional speakers in all domains: the corporate arena; education; Theatre and Film; medical professionals … and many others.

Julia has lectured in Voice at the Victorian College of the Arts School of Drama, the University Of Ballarat Academy Of Performing Arts, and is currently Senior Lecturer of Voice in the Acting Department of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University.

Sheryl Mailing

Hm 03 9589 3550
Mob 0438 893 550
Email sheryl.mailing@eyeandear.org.au

Sheryl is a Speech Pathologist who has been working with people with voice disorders for over 25 years. 

She works part time at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in the ENT unit and the Voice Analysis clinics. She has also worked as a clinical educator in voice therapy with LaTrobe University for many years.

She provides voice consultancy to some of the speech pathology services in Melbourne’s health services. 

She also runs, with two other Speech Pathologists, Sapphire Speech Pathology Consultancy, a private practice specialising in voice disorders, accent modification, and aged care including the provision of audit and screening programs to General Practice networks in Victoria.

Sheryl is a committee member of the Victorian Voice Interest Group and is delighted to be joining the board of the Australian Voice Association as she looks forward to providing benefit to the professionals working in the area of voice and to the patients and clients we aim to assist.

Thea Peterson B SpThy (Qld)
AVA Board member
Speech Pathologist/Voice Consultant
Voice Care WA
14 Mann St
Cottesloe
Perth WA  6011
Phone 0413 048118
theap@iinet.net.au
www.voicecarewa.com

Thea is a Speech Pathologist with more than 25 years experience in the treatment of people with voice disorders.  She has worked in Private Practice in Perth for more than 25 years and prior to that in several major teaching hospitals. For the past 20 years she has worked closely with her ENT colleagues and has been involved in a combined Private Voice Clinic utilizing videostroboscopy.

She has a special interest in the vocal problems of professional voice users especially singers, performers and teachers. Thea has extensive experience in improving and maintaining the aging voice, psychogenic voice disorders  and the treatment of vocal fold paralysis.

Thea has run workshops for various organizations on voice care and conservation and improving voice technique. These include Speech Pathology Australia, Curtin University Speech Pathology students, Murdock University Theology students, St John’s ambulance, The Department of Public Prosecution, Edith Cowan University Physical Education students, The Australian Tax Office and Auctioneering Companies.

Her personal philosophy regarding problems of the voice involves a holistic view that voices have people attached to them and that voice therapy aims to empower the client to make changes in their voice, lifestyle and attitude to life which will allow them to re establish a comfortable, durable and sustainable voice for their daily and professional lives.