We are delighted to welcome Marinet Van Vuren, Speech and Language Therapist as advisor to our website. She will begin to blog weekly about issues relating to SLT for people with Down syndrome shortly.

South African born Marinet has worked in Ireland for the past seven years, gaining valuable experience in a range of disability organisations including Enable Ireland, St Michael’s House and the Children’s Sunshine Home. 

In 2008 she obtained a Master of Science degree in Speech and Language Pathology through the University of Cape Town. She has recently set up a private speech and language therapy practice, called Bright Stars, in Rathfarnham, where she and her colleague see children of all disabilities with various speech, language and feeding difficulties.