She has been involved in education for over 30 years and has worked as both psychologist and teacher in mainstream and special schools. In the late 90s she set up and ran a leading independent Educational Psychology Service based in London. She has assessed and worked with many hundreds of pupils and has given support and advice to their parents and teachers. She has developed and delivered numerous training courses for parents and professionals and has contributed to Dystalk, the leading learning difficulty website offering a series of talks given by experts in their field.