1997: Inspired by fellowship

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Danielle Le Rossignol, Bachelor of Speech Pathology

Danielle Le Rossignol

Danielle Le Rossignol has recently returned to Australia after having been awarded the Gallaugher Bequest Churchill Fellowship.

She won the award for her investigative programs that will benefit children and adolescents with specific language impairment (SLI) and dyslexia.

She travelled to six sites across the USA and UK as part of her fellowship and said it was a fantastic opportunity, both professionally and personally.

“The fellowship extended my professional knowledge and skills and promoted my profession and the Tasmanian Department of Education. It also provided me with some of the best mentoring experiences of my career to date,” she said.

She has worked as a senior speech and language pathologist with the Tasmanian Department of Education since 2005.

Prior to this, she was senior paediatric speech pathologist at Maroondah Hospital in Victoria, and worked as a locum speech and language pathologist in Scotland and Wales in the UK in 2001.

She was also a speech and language pathologist with the Tasmanian Department of Education from 1998–2001.

Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team in schools to support students with communication and feeding difficulties is the most enjoyable part of her work.

“I love working in an educational setting with teachers and other professionals and working with children in particular,” she said.

“I am currently focused on disseminating findings from my Churchill Fellowship to speech and language pathologists, other educators (teachers, social workers, and educational psychologists), managers and caregivers, including preparing to implement some of the new programs I was trained in while on the fellowship.”

Ms Le Rossignol was full of praise for the opportunities that a Churchill Fellowship provides.

“I was continually amazed and humbled by people’s generosity in sharing their knowledge and skills with me,” she said.

“The experience certainly challenged and inspired my thinking, and opened up many partnership opportunities.”

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