Trudy has been a Teacher of the Deaf since 1998. She spent several years working in inclusive classroom settings before becoming the Advisory Visiting Teacher: Hearing Impairment for the Mount Isa and Longreach Districts in Queensland. She worked as an Auditory Verbal Therapist, supporting children and families in rural and remote settings and became a Listening and Spoken Language Specialist Cert. AVT in 2007. Trudy then took on the role of State-wide Education Advisor: Hearing Impairment for the Department of Education in Queensland which she held for three years. She was then and has now returned to the role of Manager of Continuing Professional Education at NextSense Institute (formerly Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) Renwick Centre) for 6 years after working as a global Rehabilitation Manager at MED-EL, based in Austria for 2 years in 2016-2017.