I am a qualified Speech and Language Therapist with extensive experience within the NHS and Education settings. I joined Newcastle University in 2004 as a Clinical Educator & Lecturer in Speech and Language Sciences. From 1995-2004 I worked as a SLT within Health and Education services in a variety of pre-school and school aged settings primarily in the North East of England. I was employed for 2 (2000-2002) years working for South West London NHS Trust & Mainstream Schools in Merton & Sutton on a research project related to collaborative working between Educationalists and SLTs employed within the NHS. In 2001 I took forward my interests in the link between language and literacy which led me to complete my M.Ed. in Education and Special Education Needs at the University of Wales, Bangor. I joined the Newcastle University in 2004 where I was responsible for setting up the in-house paediatric The Language for Literacy Clinic which ran for 14 years. I completed my PhD, (metacognitively based metalinguistic approach to assessment and intervention for written language difficulties/disorders) in 2014.

I am blessed with working as an SLT with students, children, parents, educationalists and colleagues within the NHS. My passion is empowering others with the knowledge, skills, and processes needed to interact and communicate effectively with others. My role as an SLT allows me to do this and so much more. As an academic clinician I work with children with developmental spoken and written speech, language and communication difficulties and disorders. My academic and clinical teaching and learning informs my practice and research.

I successfully ran (2004-2017) a university campus-based paediatric clinic, The Language for Literacy Clinic (TLC), for 14 years. As the Director of TLC I assessed, diagnosed, and devised one to one tailor-made language, and literacy intervention programmes for children aged 6-16. These programmes of intervention were implemented by under- & post-graduate Student Speech & Language Therapists (SSLTs) under my supervision, on the Speech and Language Sciences programmes within school of Education, Communication, & Language Sciences at Newcastle University.  Within the clinic SSLTs were supported to develop their clinical skills in working with children who presented with literacy  difficulties or disorders that co-existed with a speech or language difficulty. From 2018 to current I am now the director of The  Children’s Speech and Language Clinic. The clinic provides a clinical service for children and adolescents (aged 4-16) with speech, language, and communication difficulties and disorders that may sit alongside a literacy difficulty or disorder. The clinic continues to serve as a training facility for undergraduate students studying for a BSc (Hons) in Speech Language Therapy; Masters of Speech and Language Sciences; and post-graduate students studying for a Masters in Speech Language Pathology.

Research and Scholarship - My clinical and academic interests focuses on

• The links between  spoken and written language
• Language and literacy difficulties/disorders
• Student clinical teaching and learning/Clinical education
• Interprofessional teaching and learning
• Collaborative working between health and education
• Principles and theory of clinical intervention
• Links to learning theory &  metacognitive practice.

I work closely with local schools in the North East region in regards to linking campus-based paediatric student teaching and learning and clinical practice/services in the wider educational context.

My teaching is in developmental spoken and written language difficulties and disorders. In my clinical and academic teaching I focus on the links between language, speech, and literacy difficulties and disorders.  

Under- and Post-graduate Teaching

• Clinical and Professional Education I - Module Leader
• Clinical and Professional Education  II, III and IV
• Clinical Supervision
• UG Dissertation supervision 
• Masters Extended Case Supervision
• Masters Dissertation Supervision 
• Speech and Language Pathology - Links between Language & Literacy
• Childhood Speech Language and Communication Difficulties
• Dietetics - Interprofessional Teaching and Learning
• Primary PGCE - Links between Language and Literacy 
• BA in Education - Pedagogies - Literacy and Language 

2015                Taught under-graduate dissertation supervisor of the year

Newcastle University Students The Education Awards Union nominations  

2013                Contribution to Outstanding Feedback in Clinical Education.

2013                Outstanding Contribution to Pastoral Support

• Moxam C. The Link between Language and Spelling: What Speech-Language Pathologists and Teachers Need to Know. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 2020, 51(4), 939-954.
• Moxam C. Assessment in Emergent Literacy. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 2008, 43(5), 595-596.