Lesley Champion is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne under the supervision of Prof Keith McVilly. Having recently moved from linguistics into disability studies, her own experience of living with cerebral palsy and impaired speech inspired her to explore the ways that disabled speech is understood within ableist culture and often broken by it. Her work is particularly interested in the experiences of disabled people themselves, how these stories interact with ableist culture, how we can potentially think differently about impaired speech, and how we may tell stories which often go unheard.