Alison has been a Speech Pathologist since
1988, and also holds a Masters in Applied Linguistics and an ESL
teaching certificate. She has worked for the Victorian Education
Department, Yooralla, SCOPE, a University in Mexico, a hospital in
London, RMIT, the Royal Children’s Hospital and Lewis and Lewis.
Alison set up
the Spelfabet website in 2012, because she was keen to encourage early
literacy teaching and intervention that reflects scientific reading
research. She was 2015-16 Vice President of Learning Difficulties Australia (LDA), and has also worked as an administrator, and been a City Councillor and Mayor. She received LDA’s 2018 Mona Tobias Award, and a Medal of the Order of Australia in 2022. Since 2018, Alison and her therapy team have been offering reading and spelling intervention in North Fitzroy.