GOLD Speakers

Kate Roche, BSc, MISCP, IBCLC

• Speaker Type: 2024 Main Presentations
• Country: Ireland

Biography:

Kate is a Chartered Physiotherapist who specialises in working with babies, children and adults with oral dysfunction. Having trained at the University of Liverpool in the UK, she worked in both Leeds and Southampton, where she led and delivered the regional neonatal service for pre-term and high-risk infants, before moving to Ireland in 2003. She is a member of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant.

Over the years Kate has traveled many times gaining extra training in areas that support her work in the field of oral dysfunction including Feeding Therapy, Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy and Craniosacral Therapy. Kate and her husband, Dr Justin Roche, own and run the National Tongue Tie Centre in Ireland leading a large multidisciplinary team providing both specialised care and education in tongue tie.