As part of your day-to-day tasks, you could:

• talk to clients, observe them and use tests to assess specific difficulties
• plan and develop therapy programmes
• support clients through treatment
• work closely with colleagues like doctors and teachers
• coach parents and carers to continue their therapy at home
• keep detailed progress records
• work with groups or individuals to improve the way they communicate

You could work at a school, in an NHS or private hospital, at a health centre, in a nursery or at a client's home.

Your working environment may be emotionally demanding.

With experience, you could specialise in areas like:helping children with special educational needs; helping eating, drinking and swallowing disorders (dysphagia)

With further training, you could move into teaching and research. You could also become self-employed.