Alison Clarke has been a Speech Pathologist since 1988. She also holds a Masters in Applied Linguistics and an ESL teaching certificate. She has worked for the Victorian Education Department, Yooralla, SCOPE, a hospital in London, the Royal Children’s Hospital Autism Assessment Team, Lewis and Lewis, and as a contractor in both mainstream and specialist schools. Alison set up her private practice in 2000, and now works in it full-time, mostly addressing school-aged children’s reading/spelling and speech, language and/or social interaction difficulties. Her practice is located at the Clifton Hill Child and Adolescent Therapy Group. She is a member of Learning Difficulties Australia and publishes the Spelfabet website and materials.