Katrina Rogers
Katrina is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and a Consultant in Dysphagia, who has worked in various settings within the NHS and Independent Clinical Practice. She is an honorary lecturer at Christchurch University and she has consulted on a number of projects for industry and healthcare At the core of her professional work she is a leading expert in the management of eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties in paediatrics and adults.
As an SLT she is trained in Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy which supports the relationship of the tongue to palate to improve functional outcomes related to eating, drinking and swallowing, breathing, voice, sleeping, speech production. She is interested in the relationship between how disordered function can negatively impact structural development and affect craniofacial development and teeth shape which is often in the context of tongue-tie.
In 2019 she was a Churchill Fellowship winner to place oral structural difficulties relating to tongue tie and its effects on a wider health agenda across professional groups to inform a working practice model in the UK and to influence health policy.