Leonie has 18 years teaching experience at the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC), and was Assistant Principal of the Thomas Pattison School, a bilingual K-10 school for the last 8 years. In 2006, Leonie received a Churchill Fellowship to conduct a research trip in the UK and USA to look at the possibility of live captioning solutions for the classroom. She is currently Vice President of Parent Council for Deaf Education, NSW. Leonie is also the mother of a very active 3 year old toddler who is deaf. As Head of Education Access Leonie is leading Ai-Media’s focus to close the existing gaps in the classroom for deaf and hearing impaired students.
