Meet the team

John Cane, Director and Senior Speech and Language Therapist

John graduated from the University of Reading with a BA in Linguistics and Japanese, before gaining his Postgraduate Diploma in Speech and Language Therapy from City University in 2010. Since then, he has continued his professional training, adding dyslexia and other literacy difficulties to his experience, and works hard to make sure he’s using the latest, evidence-based practice.

John has extensive experience of working with children on a 1-1 basis, as well as in groups, particularly with autistic young people, language disorder and delay, phonological (speech sound) delay and disorder, as well as ADHD and global delay.

Currently working in several primary and secondary schools, he also provides assessments and reports for EHCPs, EHCP appeals and annual reviews for children when his busy schedule allows.

As Managing Director, John’s role is to ensure that ACCESS Speech and Language Therapy provides the best possible service for all the families and schools we work with. He is a member of ASLTIP (The Association of Speech & Language Therapists in Independent Practice).

Fabienne James, Speech and Language Therapist

Fabienne is a great therapist - dedicated, organised and has the rare ability to be truly flexible in her approach to providing the service that school SENCos need.

She works in primary and secondary schools in North London and is a highly valued member the team in all her schools.

Jean Quinn, Speech and Language Therapist

Jean works in several primary schools in Hertfordshire. She also provides therapy for a small caseload of individual clients and their families.

Before graduating as a Speech and Language Therapist, she was an Early Years teacher, so brings invaluable experience and insight to her schools.

She is very organised and is dedicated to providing the best therapy service to her schools and clients.

Jean is a joy to work with and consistently goes the extra mile to ensure staff and parents are on the same page when it comes to the children’s intervention.

Charlie Birkett, Speech and Language Therapist

Charlie has an MSc in Speech and Language Therapy from City University, London with a bachelor of science undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Sussex.

For the past 12 years Charlie has worked with a diverse range of clients including mainstream secondary, primary, early years clinics and special schools across London and South East of England. Charlie is currently working in Alternative Secondary Provisions in Haringey providing support for a wide range of speech, language and communication needs. Charlie also manages an independent caseload of mainly early years / Autistic clients.

Catherine Harris, Speech and Language Therapist

Catherine enjoys working with children and young people, supporting them to reach their full potential. She has an MA from Edinburgh University and a BSC from Reading University in Speech and Language Therapy.

Her special interests include social communication, language disorder and multilingualism. Catherine has extensive experience working with children and young people 1:1 and in groups.

She is a member of the London Autism Clinical Excellence Network and is experienced at working with autistic children and young people.

She is currently working in secondary schools across London.

Pnina Zokaie, Speech and Language Therapist

Pnina was always keen on becoming a Speech and Language Therapist as she demonstrates compassion and patience and enjoys helping others. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from UCLA in Psychology and her Masters of Science degree in Communication Disorders and Sciences from California State University, Northridge.  She has gained experience working in remediation of speech and language disorders with school-age and adult population in a school and a clinical setting.

She has experience with providing therapy for autistic young people, articulation disorder, receptive/expressive language disorder, and disorders in social aspects of communication and communication modalities. Her areas of interest include language development and Specific Learning Disabilities.

She is currently working in a mainstream secondary school supporting individuals with language difficulties and social communication difficulties.

Ming Flannelly, Speech and Language Therapist

Ming (they/them) is a fully qualified Speech and Language Therapist from Dublin, Ireland. They graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Speech and Language Studies. 

Ming is bilingual in both Mandarin and English. They have received additional training including:

• Palin's Parent-Child Interaction therapy for stuttering/stammering

• Elklan 5-11 Years language therapy for children with language difficulties

• Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme for helping children with Childhood Apraxia of Speech

• Hanen More than Words for helping children with social communication difficulties

• Hanen It Takes Two to Talk for children with language delay

Ming has also completed the Elklan’s Supporting Social, Emotional and Mental Health of Children and Young People course.

Ming believes in an evidence based, child centred approach with fun filled and inclusive therapy. They are dedicated to obtaining the best practice for the child, so they can give the child the maximum opportunity to achieve their developmental and educational goals.

Ming loves being out in nature and dedicates their free time to rock climbing, hiking, singing and art.