Samantha Read

Special Interests: Voice
Vocal cord dysfunction
Swallowing difficulties

Sam completed her Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours in Speech and Language Therapy at Plymouth Marjon University (UK) in 2015. She has since worked across acute, community, and outpatient settings in both the United Kingdom and New Zealand, holding clinical roles as well as managerial positions that have contributed to local service delivery and to broader regional and national projects for the profession.

After emigrating to New Zealand in 2017, Sam developed a specialist interest and expertise in laryngology and upper airway disorders. Her clinical practice includes the assessment and management of dysphonia, laryngeal dysfunction (including chronic cough, inducible laryngeal obstruction, hypersensitivity, and globus), dysphagia, dysarthria, aphasia, and dysfluency in adults, as well as paediatric voice and upper airway disorders. She is a certified Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) clinician and is trained in manual release therapy, as well as instrumental assessment of swallowing using videofluoroscopy and fibreoptic endoscopic evaluations. 

Sam divides her time between her Senior Speech–Language Therapy role at Te Whatu Ora Southern – Dunedin Hospital, where she works clinically and provides training and supervision. She also jointly consults with Dr Coombs at the regional voice clinic. Alongside this, she runs her private practice, Vocality, based in Wānaka. She has a strong interest in telehealth and improving access to specialist voice and upper airway services, particularly for rural communities. Sam coordinates a regional special interest group and is a registered member of the New Zealand Speech-Language Therapy Association, the New Zealand Telehealth Forum, and Voice Medicine Australia.

Sam provides in-person consultations once monthly in Dunedin at the Marinoto Clinic, Suite 20, with additional in-person and telehealth appointments available through her Wānaka clinic.

For further information or to arrange an appointment, please visit or email:vocality@outlook.co.nz | www.vocality@outlook.co.nz