Ms Sarah Kilcoyne B. Speech Path (Hons); B. Laws (Hons); Grad Dip Leg Prac; M. Laws (Health); M. Stud Leg Research (Oxon); MRCSLT is a Principal Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and Facial Therapist based in Oxford, United Kingdom.

Since graduating in 2004 with a First Class Honours degree in Speech Pathology from the Flinders University in South Australia, Sarah has worked in education and healthcare settings across Australia and the United Kingdom. Sarah’s clinical specialties include working with children, young people and adults with cleft palate, craniofacial conditions and facial palsy.

Sarah also has a special interest in working with people with communication impairment in the justice system, and the legal rights of people with communication impairment. As a result, whilst working full-time as a Speech Pathologist, Sarah completed a Graduate Law (Honours) degree and a Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice (QUT) and was admitted as a Solicitor in 2011 in Queensland. I subsequently finished a Masters of Laws (Health) (QUT) with special interests in children and young people with communication impairments’ ability to access their legal rights within the health, justice and child protection systems. Sarah also completed a M.St. in Legal Research at the University of Oxford investigating the participation of young offenders with communication impairment in restorative justice conferences. Sarah is currently undertaking a DPhil (PhD) in Law at the University of Oxford.

Sarah is passionate about evidence-based practice in the areas of speech and language therapy and facial therapy and has presented her research at national and international meetings. She also works with her team to regularly publish their research findings.

Sarah is registered with the HCPC and has been a Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists since 2011.