Ruth Bryce

Ruth Bryce is an Australian speech therapist who has lived in Cambodia since 2006. She has been part of the OIC Cambodia team since 2016, when she joined as a part-time volunteer. In 2018, she became program manager, and since July 2019, she has been the university strategy manager.

Her role at OIC, Cambodia, involves being on the management team and working with the government and other stakeholders to develop a quality Cambodian speech therapy program and profession that can meet the needs of the 600,000 Cambodians with communication and swallowing difficulties.

Within her 13 years in Cambodia, she has been involved in community development projects in informal education initiatives, community-based rehabilitation, disability inclusion, preschool education projects, and grassroots research within Cambodia.  Her work roles include technical advisor to local NGO’s, independent evaluation consultant, and governing board member of LNGO (2009–2017) and social enterprise (2015–current).

Ruth holds a Bachelor of Speech Therapy (La Trobe University, Australia, 2000) and a Masters of Transformational Development (Eastern College, Australia, 2015).

Ruth’s speech therapy background includes working with people with complex communication needs using alternative and augmentative communication to increase their participation within their communities. She is passionate to see an increase in the inclusion of people with communication disabilities within Cambodian society, as well as the development of a Cambodian speech therapy profession that can support all Cambodians' access to the therapy they need.