I work as a paediatric educational audiologist and I am based at Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. I have a clinical diagnostic role with deaf babies, and as I am also a qualified teacher of the deaf I have a peripatetic role visiting and supporting families with deaf babies in Kingston.

My Fellowship enabled me to visit pre-school programmes, schools, clinics and training departments for deaf children in Canada and the USA. I have been able to incorporate many of the practices I observed there into my work.

I was a member of the Newborn Hearing Screening Team which introduced testing newborn babies in the UK. I was for many years a teaching placement supervisor for teachers training at the universities of Birmingham, Oxford Brookes and Hertfordshire to be qualified teachers of the deaf. I am a trustee of the Burwood Park Charity, part of the Ewing Foundation, supporting deaf children with additional handicaps. I was a founder member of the Toy Libraries Association and Chair of the Toy Appraisal Committee for 35 years.

Being a Churchill Fellow enabled me to observe a wide range of family, clinical and teaching programmes and to use this knowledge in my daily work.