Wendy Duke
M.Sc., RSLP, CCC-SLP – Chief of Program Development

Areas of practice: expert witness assessment and reporting, adult brain injury rehabilitation, stuttering, aphasia therapy, voice therapy, accent modification.

Locations served: Vancouver, West Vancouver, North Vancouver, Fraser Health Authority; her expert witness work takes place at locations throughout BC and further. Wendy provides services in clinic, in clients’ homes, and virtually.

Wendy is the founder (in 1987)  and previous owner of Columbia Speech and Language Services, Inc. She is now our chief of program development and a consultant speech-language pathologist. For  close to 40 years, she and her team have co-developed many important and pioneering speech and language therapy programs for British Columbians. Unique programs in which Wendy has had a hand developing include: community-based service for clients with brain injury, intensive stuttering treatment therapy, accent modification, social communication skills group programs for people with brain injury, expert witness work in the area of speech-language pathology, and one of only a handful of programs world-wide providing intensive comprehensive treatment for people with aphasia.

Accreditation
Master of Science, Speech-Language Pathology, University of British Columbia

Bachelor of Arts, Linguistics, University of British Columbia

Recipient of the “Honours of the Association Award” from the BC Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (now “Speech and Hearing BC), 2013

Clinical Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine’s School of Audiology and Speech Sciences at the University of B.C. (UBC)