About Me
Shelley Hornberger
Speech-Language Therapist/Logopädin
Shelley is an experienced Speech-Language Therapist committed to providing high-quality, evidence-based speech, language and literacy services to the English speaking community in Munich. She qualified in 2011 with a Master of Speech Language Pathology from the University of Sydney, Australia and received the Faculty of Health Sciences Dean's Scholar Award for graduating top of class. She is a native English speaker and fluent German speaker and has been officially recognised as a 'Logopädin' by the Regierung von Oberbayern
Previous Experience
Throughout her career working for the Ministry of Education in New Zealand and as a Specialist Speech-Language Therapist within the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Shelley gained extensive experience supporting children and young people aged 0-18 with a range of speech, language, communication and literacy needs. Her previous roles were within a multi-disciplinary team working with other professionals including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Dieticians, Paediatricians, Educational Psychologists as well as specialist teaching staff. She has worked in a variety of settings including homes, preschools, mainstream schools and schools/additionally resourced classrooms for children with complex disabilities.
Shelley established her private paediatric Speech-Language Therapy practice in 2019 and currently lives near Munich with her husband and two children. Her main areas of clinical specialism are Developmental Language Disorder and associated written language difficulties in school age children and bilingualism. She is an ambassador for RADLD (Raising Awareness of Developmental Language Disorder) and has published a case study and book review in her areas of clinical interest. She is also a trained administrator of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and has many years experience working as part of a multi-agency Autism assessment team.
Shelley is also an experienced clinical educator of Bachelor and Masters degree level Speech-Language Therapy students. She is a certified member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) in the United Kingdom. She can provide evidence of her working with children police checks on request.
Training and Approaches
As part of the continuing professional development requirements for Speech-Language Therapists,
Shelley regularly attends workshops, seminars and conferences and participates in Professional Interest Groups.
Some of the approaches she is trained/experienced in include:
• Hanen 'It Takes Two to Talk' parent training programme
• Building Early Sentences Therapy (BEST)
• Shape Coding
• Colourful Semantics
• Story Champs Narrative Intervention
• Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme
• Lidcombe Programme of Early Stuttering Intervention
• Sounds-Write Linguistic Phonics Programme
• Read3 Literacy
• SPELL @ SPELD NSW spelling programme
• Equipped for Reading Success
• Heggerty Phonemic Awareness Curriculum
• PECS (Picture Exchange Communication System)
• Key Word Signing
• High-tech and low-tech AAC (Augmentative and Alternative Communication)
• ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule)
Publications
• Hornberger, S. (2022). Book Review: Language and Literacy Connections: Intervention for School-Age Children and Adolescents by Geraldine P Wallach and Alaine Ocampo. Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 38(2), 232–233.
https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590221076572
• Hornberger, S. (2022). Speech-language therapist, Munich, Germany: one-to-one intervention. In A. Beaven, A. Comas-Quinn & N. Hinton (Eds), Systematic synthetic phonics: case studies from Sounds-Write practitioners (pp. 97-104). Research-publishing.net.
https://doi.org/10.14705/rpnet.2022.55.1364
