Alison
Kimble-Fry BA(Sp&H.Th), HDPM
Speech pathologist and
Director of ClearSpeak
Alison Kimble was born in the United Kingdom and has lived
and worked in the UK, South Africa, Australia, Thailand and South Korea.
She holds postgraduate qualifications in both Speech
Pathology and Human Resource Management.
In 1991 she established ClearSpeak Pty Ltd in
Sydney, specialising in the fields of English pronunciation, voice and speaking
style.
Following a break
of six years in Thailand and South Korea, Alison once again operates out of
Sydney, Australia, providing speech and communication training to native English
speakers as well as a wide variety of those from non-English speaking
backgrounds.
She pioneered the
holistic training approach, the ClearSpeak Training Method, and has coached a
large number of pronunciation clients by private tuition.
These include many Australian radio broadcasters,
business people and professionals who speak English as their second language.
Her original training materials and products
have consolidated ClearSpeak as a provider of professional, quality resources.
Her book
Perfect Pronunciation is used by many colleges and universities as a generic
text for training teachers and speech therapists in the field.
Alison's early
career in a large general hospital included work with voice disability and
gender identity speech issues.
Among others, she has published in the fields of
Parkinson’s Disease speech and the Gay speech pattern.
The breadth and depth of her experience has helped
many clients achieve their desired image through adjusting their speaking style.
Seeking a new
challenge earlier in her career, Alison completed a further post-graduate year
in human resource management.
She graduated from the Business School with the John
O’ Meara Award for Best Student of the Year.
Alison went to work in two international banks,
developing people management policies and systems; and rose to executive level
in Australia before leaving to start ClearSpeak.
Alison, therefore, has firsthand knowledge of the
performance and communication demands of the workplace.
As a
professional speech pathologist, Alison follows a strict code of ethics and
clients are assured of complete confidentiality in all training they undertake
with ClearSpeak.
Publications
( * Published under maiden name Alison K. Thompson)
( ** Published under the name Alison K. Kimble)
( ***
Published under the name Alison Kimble-Fry)
Business With Style: A simple
guide to Australian business protocol and manners (1992)**. Sydney: ClearSpeak
Pty Ltd
Perfect Pronunciation: A
guide for trainers and self-help students (2001)***. Sydney: ClearSpeak Pty Ltd
Audiometric Weber and Rinne
tests as compared to pure-tone thresholds, in South African Journal of
Communication Disorders (1974), 21, pp 63-70 *
A clinical rating scale of
speech dysfunction in Parkinson’s Disease, in South African Journal of
Communication Disorders (1978), 25, pp 39-52 *
Food for thought: Creating an
integrated workforce in South Africa, in IPM Manpower Journal (1983),
1(10), pp 28-31. (Winner of the Fedics Food Services/Institute of Personnel
Management Award for 1983) *
A sensitive issue of style, in
HR Monthly (June 1992), pp 16-19**
What comes out when you open
your mouth?, in Sydney Business to Business Magazine
(February
1995), p 22**
‘Straightening’ the ‘Gay’
Communication Style, in Australian Voice Journal (1997), 3, pp 43-49**
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