Samantha Martin is a qualified speech-language pathologist who graduated from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 2021. She completed her community service year in 2022 in rural South Africa, where she gained valuable experience in an acute hospital setting, working with both adult and paediatric populations. It was during this time that she discovered her passion for working with children.

Following her community service, Samantha spent two years at a private paediatric practice in Cape Town, supporting young and school-aged children. Her clinical experience spans a wide range of areas, including literacy, articulation, motor speech disorders, receptive and expressive language difficulties, fluency, and developmental delays.

Samantha is passionate about supporting children through play-based, evidence-informed therapy that empowers families and fosters meaningful communication. She is a firm advocate for every child’s right to be heard and understood and is committed to creating safe, inclusive, and supportive spaces where children can thrive and reach their full potential.

Samantha has completed several specialised training courses, including:

• DIR/Floortime: An Introduction to the Developmental Levels

• Meaningful Speech – Gestalt Language Processing Course

• Lindamood-Bell: Seeing Stars – Symbol Imagery for Orthographic and Phonological Processing in Reading and Spelling

• TD snap: eye-gaze workshop 

• Second Step Child Safeguarding