Penny Metcalf

My name is Penny Metcalf, my car registration number is TNT and I am always teased about the way I drive my motorised wheelchair. I cannot sneak around anywhere because of the chair so I have millions of acquaintances and get easily mixed up with people's names! So bear with me!

I graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand as a speech, language and hearing therapist. I joined St Luke's Church in the early 70s. I met Charles who has been at St Luke's ever since the 40s!

Charles and I fell in love over the drawing board where he was helping me draw charts for my "Face Clues Programme" to teach speech. We were married in 1981, we have two children Timothy who is now married to Jannine, and we have a grandson Logan. Our daughter is Kate and she is a nursery school teacher.

I am disabled I was born with mild cerebral palsy and then injured in a motorcar accident in 1975. God has performed miracles in my life and I am still working.

I have worked at Baragwanath (Chris Hani) Hospital, Forest Town School, Independent Living Centre in private practice and with lawyers doing medico legal assessments of head injured clients. I have taught English as a second language, at businesses, call centres and a college. I do counselling and voluntary work with adult literacy and teaching English to three Grade 1 classes and one Grade R at a local Government school. I am rewriting the "Face Clues" manual and adapting my "Face Clues Programme to fit into Grade 1 classes.