My career began as a Speech and Language Therapist spending eight years
as the District Speech and Language Therapist at a group of London
Hospitals.  The work involved supporting disabled people with a wide
range of communication difficulties. Having left the National Health
Service, I then worked in schools and colleges, specialising in the
support of those with Special Needs whilst encouraging the use of
assistive technologies (AT). A Winston Churchill Fellowship provided the
chance to see how centres of AT were set up in the United States. This
resulted in ten years work at the University of Sussex, building and
running a regional AT Centre, whilst liaising with others to introduce
the concepts of equal access to teaching and learning for those with
disabilities. More recently I have been working at the University of Southampton on many projects related to the use of assistive technologies and accessibility.