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Lisa Nailand joined The Shepherd Centre (Sydney) in 2008. She is a senior Listening and Spoken Language Specialist (LSLS) and a certified practicing Speech Pathologist.  She currently lives in Israel but still works part time for The Shepherd Centre  as a mentor to therapists working towards their LSLS certification. She graduated with an honours degree in Speech and Hearing Therapy from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa in 1992 and in January 2023, she completed her Masters of Research degree in Applied Science at the University of Sydney.

Lisa loves being a clinician first and foremost and has always enjoyed working alongside a child’s family unit, using a family-centred care approach to help them reach the best possible outcomes.

Publications

• Nailand, L., Munro, N., & Purcell, A. (2023, Jul-Aug 01). What are parents’ experiences with their child’s hearing aid use in the first 5 years? Ear Hear, 44(4), 816-828. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001332
• Nailand, L., Munro, N., & Purcell, A. (2022). Identifying the factors that affect consistent hearing aid use in young children with early identified hearing loss: A scoping review. Ear Hear, 43(3), 733-740. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001139

• Caraway, T. (2019). Transforming mission: impossible into mission: probable. https://learn.hearingfirst.org/mission_probable
• Ching, T. Y., Dillon, H., Marnane, V., Hou, S., Day, J., Seeto, M., Crowe, K., Street, L., Thomson, J., & Van Buynder, P. (2013). Outcomes of early-and late-identified children at 3 years of age: Findings from a prospective population-based study. Ear and hearing, 34(5), 535. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0b013e3182857718
• Ching, T. Y. C., & Leigh, G. (2020). Considering the impact of universal newborn hearing screening and early intervention on language outcomes for children with congenital hearing loss. Hearing, balance and communication, 18(4), 215-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/21695717.2020.1846923
• Cole, E. B., & Flexer, C. A. (2007). Children with Hearing Loss: Developing Listening and Talking Birth to Six. Plural Publishing, Inc.
• Hart, B., & Risley, T. R. (1995). Meaningful differences in the everyday experience of young American children. P.H. Brookes
• Nailand, L., Munro, N., & Purcell, A. (2023, Jul-Aug 01). What are parents’ experiences with their child’s hearing aid use in the first 5 years? Ear Hear, 44(4), 816-828. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001332
• Nailand, L., Munro, N., & Purcell, A. (2022). Identifying the factors that affect consistent hearing aid use in young children with early identified hearing loss: A scoping review. Ear Hear, 43(3), 733-740. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001139
• Ruben, R. J. (1997). A Time Frame of Critical/Sensitive Periods of Language Development. Acta oto-laryngologica, 117(2), 202-205. https://doi.org/10.3109/00016489709117769
• Reupert, A., Straussner, S. L., Weimand, B., & Maybery, D. (2022). It Takes a Village to Raise a Child: Understanding and Expanding the Concept of the “Village”. Frontiers in public health, 10, 756066-756066. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.756066
• Suskind, D., Suskind, B., & Lewinter-Suskind, L. (2015). Thirty million words : building a child’s brain : tune in, talk more, take turns. Dutton.
• Sininger, Y. S., Grimes, A., & Christensen, E. (2010). Auditory Development in Early Amplified Children: Factors Influencing Auditory-Based Communication Outcomes in Children with Hearing Loss. Ear and hearing, 31(2), 166-185. https://doi.org/10.1097/AUD.0b013e3181c8e7b6
• Tomblin, J. B., Tattersall, H., Oleson, J. J., Ambrose, S. E., Walker, E., & Moeller, M. P. (2014). The influence of hearing aids on the speech and language development of children with hearing loss. JAMA Otolaryngology–Head & Neck Surgery, 140(5), 403-409. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoto.2014.267