Alison Clarke OAM

Alison has been a Speech Pathologist since 1988, and also holds a Masters in Applied Linguistics and an ESL teaching certificate. She has worked in a range of sectors, and set up the Spelfabet website in 2012 to encourage early literacy teaching and intervention that reflects scientific reading research. Her practice is now called Spelfabet, and all clinicians working there are Sounds-Write trained. Alison was 2015-16 Vice President of Learning Difficulties Australia (LDA), and has also been a City Councillor and Mayor. She received LDA’s 2018 Mona Tobias Award, and a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2022.