Finding my passion
My mum was a teacher and I did an English language and linguistic degree but I didn’t know what I wanted to do when I graduated. I used to babysit a child who was receiving speech and language therapy and I enjoyed helping with that however I could. After university I worked as a teaching assistant supporting children with additional needs. I then applied for both teacher training and a speech and language master’s and when I was accepted for both I decided to train in speech and language therapy. Two years later I started my first job as a speech and language therapist with the NHS, based in East Sussex. I had a very mixed caseload but early on developed an interest in deafness and learned British Sign Language (BSL) at an evening class.
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