Catharina (Rina) van der Walt - Head of Therapy
Rina qualified as Speech-Language Therapist and Audiologist in South Africa in 1973. She worked primarily with children with cerebral palsy at special schools and in private practice after she completed her Bobath/NDT training in 1978. Rina also specialised in the treatment of adults with acquired neurological communication disorders, eating and drinking difficulties, and worked with this clinical group in the Republic of Ireland in 2002-2004. Rina taught courses in management of children and adults with neurological disorders in several countries and was a senior lecturer at the University of Cape Town before she joined Bobath Scotland as head of therapy in April 2008.

Philip Vervaeke – Physiotherapist
Philip (better known as Filip) trained in Leuven, Belgium and qualified as a physiotherapist in 1995. He did a specialising year in manual therapy in 1995-1996 before moving to Glasgow in 1997. He worked for two years in a general hospital in Glasgow and three years in community paediatrics in Lanarkshire. In 1999-2000 he completed a post-graduate distance learning course in Clinical Gait Analysis at the University of Strathclyde. Philip joined the team at Bobath Scotland in January 2002.

Fiona Heinold - Physiotherapist
Fiona graduated as a physiotherapist from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1986. She has worked with children with cerebral palsy in various contexts in South Africa for several years. She has also spent time working with adults with neurological difficulties. Fiona joined Bobath Scotland in March 2007.

Lesley Nutton – Physiotherapist
Lesley trained in Manchester and qualified in 1986. She has worked in large teaching hospitals in Liverpool, Sheffield and Newcastle as well as in the community based at a special needs school. She has gained a wide range of experience working within the paediatric field in a number of regional specialities based in Newcastle, with a special interest in acquired brain injury. Lesley and her family relocated to Scotland in 2005 and she joined Bobath Scotland in 2007.

Maia Lewis-Donga – Occupational Therapist
Maia trained as an occupational therapist in Auckland, New Zealand and has worked with children since qualifying in 1997. Maia worked as an occupational therapist and visiting neurodevelopment therapist within a Child Development Team in the community of Northland, New Zealand prior to moving to Scotland. Maia joined the team at Bobath Scotland in October 2006.

Claire McMillan – Speech & Language Therapist
Claire qualified as a speech & language therapist from the University of Strathclyde in 1998. She worked with children in clinics, special schools and nurseries in Lanarkshire from 1998 – 2002. In early 2002 she left to spend some time in Tunisia working as a speech & language therapist with a charity, working alongside and training local educators and therapists, especially in the use of augmentative and alternative communication systems. She began working at Bobath Scotland shortly after she returned from Tunisia in November 2004.

Sandra Mackay – Occupational Therapist
Sandra qualified as Occupational Therapist from the Robert Gordon University of Aberdeen in 1999. Since qualifying Sandra initially worked with adults before joining the Paediatric Occupational Therapy Service at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh in 2000. Throughout this post she was based at a number of different special schools where she worked with a wide range of children/young people, but predominantly those with Cerebral Palsy and other neurological conditions. Sandra joined the Bobath team in January 2009.

Rosemary Deeney - Therapy Assistant
Rosemary has been with Bobath Scotland as a Therapy Assistant since 2006. Her post at Bobath Scotland is varied and involves assisting within sessions as required, keeping all statistics, sending out children’s reports, updating and maintaining equipment and toys. Rosemary previously worked in an after-school care facility for children with special needs and also gained experience in working with adult patients in a stroke unit at a general hospital as a Speech-Language Therapy assistant.