Exploring the role of speech and language therapy for older children and young people
2 December 2008
Novotel London City South, 53-61 Southwark Bridge Road, London, SE1 9HH
This exciting and innovative event provided delegates with the chance to join and launch SIG for SLTs working with older children and young people.
The Bercow Report (July 08) identified a gap in services for older children and there is currently no national SIG in this clinical area. This event addressed this issue and brought together experts from related fields, providing delegates with the opportunity to:
- share best practice and information
- identify ways to improve the service and identify key influencers
- learn about current Government policy, which will help with improving influencing skills
- network with fellow professionals to enhance awareness and raise the profile of SLTs in this area.
Full details can be found on the agenda.
Call for papers
Members of the speech and language therapy community were invited to submit abstracts of papers concerned with all areas related to speech and language therapy for older children and young people, to present at this event.
Presentations
Research Panel
- Is direct therapy effective for secondary-aged students with language impairments? - Susan Ebbels, Research and Development Coordinator, Moor House School
- Is direct therapy effective for secondary-aged students with language impairments? - Susan Ebbels
- Profiling the language abilities of secondary school students with language impairments: student, teacher and parent perspectives - Victoria Joffe, Senior Lecturer, City University
Commissioning and multi-agency working
- Working with multiple commissioners to provide speech and language therapy services for young people in Hackney: challenges and opportunities - Sally Hewett, SLT Central Team Manager and Kirstie Goulding, SLT, Hackney and the City PCT
- The successes and challenges of multi-agency working within a behaviour and education support team - Olivia Brown, Specialist SLT, Leicester City NHS Trust, Morag Gornall, Senior Educational Psychologist, Leicester CYPS Psychology Service, and Carol Reffin, SLT, St Andrew's Healthcare
- Abstract: The successes and challenges of multi-agency working within a behaviour and education support team - Olivia Brown, Morag Gornall and Carol Reffin
Developing effective practice
- Supporting pupils with specific language impairment in secondary schools; an evaluation of a pilot study - Gemma Wilson, SLT, NHS Fife
- Designing and evaluating individualised training programmes for learning support assistants providing specialist language support in secondary schools - Sophie Miles, Principal SLT, Greenshaw High School
- Developing the social cognition of pupils with specific language impairments attending mainstream secondary schools: a 10-week collaborative programme designed and delivered by an SLT and two advisory teachers - Val Brooks, Highly Specialist SLT, Devon Primary Care Trust, Sally Dyer, Advisory Teacher and Co-ordinator of the Communication and Interaction Difficulties team, and Diane Richards, Advisory Teacher, Support and Advisory Teacher Service under Devon LEA