Claire is a dual-qualified audiologist and speech pathologist.
She has worked in the field of hearing assessment, auditory processing assessment and auditory training for more than 20 years. She is passionate about helping people to improve their hearing and understanding of speech.
Assessments and therapy are done at your convenience. Capable Hearing Solutions is a mobile service and testing can be done in a quiet room at your home, work or school.
We work one-on-one, offering a bespoke experience that ensures that your experience is fun, relevant and tailored to both your interests and audiological needs.
Only audiologists can diagnose auditory processing disorder. We specialise in diagnosing APD using a specific group of listening tests. We have the tools and skills to test children from as young as 3 1/2.
We use the very latest equipment and technology. We never stop learning. Claire has presented her work on APD intervention at a number of conferences, both national and international. She has recently had an article published in Audiology Today.
Individuals with Central Auditory Processing Disorder (also called Auditory Processing Disorder) have normal hearing thresholds (abilities). Still, mechanisms in the pathway from the ear to the part of the brain that processes sound are impaired.
Auditory Processing includes mechanisms that preserve, refine, analyse, modify, and interpret information from auditory information. When there is a breakdown in one or more mechanisms along this pathway, the result is a central auditory processing disorder.
These mechanisms underlie the following skills: Decoding, Auditory discrimination, Binaural Processing, Temporal Processing, Spatial Processing, Listening to noise, Auditory Memory, Organisation, and Integration.
My Son was diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder when he was 8 years old. For three years he used an FM system at school. Slowly he was making some improvements. Then when he was going into High School we were looking at moving onto low gain hearing aids.
Claire from Capable Hearing Solutions, recommended therapy sessions first to see if he could make some gains in his areas of weakness. After the first 12 weeks of sessions, he has made enough gains that he is going to school without a hearing device. I would absolutely recommend therapy sessions to anybody who has Auditory Processing. They have made such a huge difference to the way my Son listens and interacts.
We will definitely be using therapy for my Daughter who has also recently received an Auditory Processing Diagnosis.
My family has been engaged with Claire at CAPable Hearing Solutions for 18 months and we are so happy with the care and attention to detail we receive.
Claire takes time to provide therapy tasks that are specific, personalised and fun.
Claire not only works 1:1 with my son, but she also provides support to my husband and I, as well as my son's other caregivers and teachers, to ensure that we understand the best way to help him day to day. The reports and feedback we get after an assessment are invaluable.
We really appreciate Claire's service and dedication and wouldn't hesitate to recommend Claire to others.