Mignon is a passionate speech-language therapist who was born and raised in South Africa. She obtained her Bachelors in Communication Pathology (Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology) Honors degree at the University of Pretoria in South Africa in 2016.  

Mignon’s particular area of expertise, passion and interest lies in working with the pediatric population. She therefore went to work in the private sector and also travelled to schools where she worked with children with a variety of speech, language, social and auditory perceptual difficulties. Her experience includes working closely with teachers and parents to provide optimal treatment. In 2019 Mignon started working full-time at a school with neurodiverse children where she worked closely in a multi-disciplinary team in order to support academic development. In this setting she was exposed to a variety of needs but not limited to ADHD, Autism, global developmental delays, and genetic conditions. She gained extensive knowledge in the fields of Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), Childhood Apraxia of Speech and Developmental Language Delays.

Mignon enjoys providing early communication intervention and supporting early literacy development. She has experience in implementing high and low tech AAC and has presented group sessions to facilitate expansion of communication skills. Mignon’s special interests include early communication, language, articulation, social development, and auditory perceptual skills. She values the importance of team work and ensures that the interest of the child always receives the highest priority.

Specialties Areas Include:

• Early Intervention for communication and language development

• Social Skills

• Auditory Processing Disorder

• Articulation

• Literacy

Additional Training Includes:

• Lindamood Bell - “Seeing Stars” : Symbol Imagery for Phologocial and Orthographic Processing in Reading and Spelling

• DIR 101: An Introduction to DIR® and DIR Floortime

• Dyslexia and ADHD

• Spelling Unpacked

• Phonological Awareness

• Social Thinking: Thoughts and Feelings 

• Social Thinking: Thinking With Your Eyes

• Social Thinking: The Group Plan 

• Social Thinking: Is Your Body In The Group?

• Social Thinking: Whole Body Listening 

• Social Thinking: Expected and Unexpected Behavior 

• Social Thinking: Smart Guess 

• Social Thinking: Flexible and Stuck Thinking 

• Social Thinking: Size Of The Problem 

• Social Thinking: Sharing An Imagination

• Auditory Processing Disorder

• Paediatric Feeding Difficulties – Diagnosis

• Paediatric Feeding Difficulties – Intervention Strategies

• Cerebral Palsy Assessment

• Autism Spectrum Disorder – Language and Communication

• Building Brains: An introduction to Neuro-Anatomy

• Introduction to the Classification of Cerebral Palsy

• Breastfeeding for Health Professionals

• Paediatric eye-conditions affecting vision and development, and the

• Implications for AAC

• Basic SA Sign Language Workshop 1&2 – Tiny Handz

• The Speech Therapists’ toolbox for speech production in children with Cerebral Palsy

• Speech Sound Disorders and Literacy