Erika Bostock
Role: Treasurer, Google Group moderator
Speech Therapist and Audiologist and the Assistant Director Speech Therapy and Audiology, Lahleni Tertiary Hospital
Erika grew up in rural SA and Namibia, living in a town for the first time when she was in her teens. Three years of job-shadowing the doctors and therapists at Nkhensani Hospital in Giyani in what is now Limpopo during school and university holidays consolidated her passion for rural healthcare. Erika studied Speech Therapy and Audiology at Wits University, completing her degree in 1993, and moved to Witbank in Mpumalanga with her husband in 1994. She practised privately from 1998 to 2004, having worked sessions at Witbank Hospital since August 2002. In December 2004 she closed her private practice to take up the fulltime position of Assistant Director: Speech Therapy and Audiology at Witbank Hospital, a position she occupies to date. In 2006 Erika joined the EXCO of the National Speech Therapy and Audiology Forum, and remained on the EXCO until August 2015. In May 2010 Erika joined the National Council of SASLHA, the SA Speech, Language and Hearing Association, and became the president in 2013. Erika attended the 2010 RuDASA conference in Swaziland and this and her contact with Karen Galloway planted the first seeds of what was to become RuReSA, with Kate Sherry, Pam McLaren and Sunette Wessels also being part of the founding group. Erika loves natural history, reading, cooking, travelling away from the crowds and spending time with her close friends and family, including all the pets.
Speech Therapist and Audiologist and the Assistant Director Speech Therapy and Audiology, Lahleni Tertiary Hospital
Erika grew up in rural SA and Namibia, living in a town for the first time when she was in her teens. Three years of job-shadowing the doctors and therapists at Nkhensani Hospital in Giyani in what is now Limpopo during school and university holidays consolidated her passion for rural healthcare. Erika studied Speech Therapy and Audiology at Wits University, completing her degree in 1993, and moved to Witbank in Mpumalanga with her husband in 1994. She practised privately from 1998 to 2004, having worked sessions at Witbank Hospital since August 2002. In December 2004 she closed her private practice to take up the fulltime position of Assistant Director: Speech Therapy and Audiology at Witbank Hospital, a position she occupies to date. In 2006 Erika joined the EXCO of the National Speech Therapy and Audiology Forum, and remained on the EXCO until August 2015. In May 2010 Erika joined the National Council of SASLHA, the SA Speech, Language and Hearing Association, and became the president in 2013. Erika attended the 2010 RuDASA conference in Swaziland and this and her contact with Karen Galloway planted the first seeds of what was to become RuReSA, with Kate Sherry, Pam McLaren and Sunette Wessels also being part of the founding group. Erika loves natural history, reading, cooking, travelling away from the crowds and spending time with her close friends and family, including all the pets.
