RCSLT Conference 2025: 80 years and beyond
Date: 26-27 November, 9am-6pm
Location: Online
Book your ticket now and join us online on 26-27 November for RCSLT Conference 2025: 80 years and beyond, two days filled with opportunities for learning, professional development and networking.
The RCSLT Conference is our flagship event, which takes place every two years to bring together SLTs from the UK and around the world to connect across sectors, specialisms, career stages and locations.
This year we are celebrating 80 years of the RCSLT, which means this is the perfect time to recognise and celebrate the speech and language therapy profession as well as share learning, innovation and the latest in SLT practice.
The conference programme is in development and will feature a wide range of content alongside our core scientific programme, including keynote speakers and innovative sessions covering a range of topics, giving you the chance to come together and network with your peers and build on your continuing professional development (CPD). Find out more about our programme and look out for further announcements in the coming weeks.
RCSLT Conference 2025 is the chance for you to:
- learn from and share research, evidence and practice with the SLT community
- hear about and engage with the latest priority work from the RCSLT
- connect with what is happening in the wider healthcare, social care, and education systems and how it relates to speech and language therapy
- celebrate the speech and language therapy profession and foster a sense of belonging
- network with SLT colleagues from across the UK at all stages of their careers.
We have also developed some social media graphics to help you to share information about the conference via your networks. Use #RCSLTConf2025 to help spread the word.
If you have any questions, please email rsvp@rcslt.org.
Tickets
Tickets for the RCSLT Conference are available now.
Ticket prices for RCSLT Conference 2025 have been frozen to match what they were two years ago, something we hope will support members to be able to attend the packed two-day programme. Book by 15 October to take advantage of our great value early bird rate.
| RCSLT Members | Non-members | Discounted rate | |
| Early bird tickets (until 15 Oct) | £40 | £60 | £5, £10, £15, £20 |
| Standard ticket | £55 | £75 | £5, £10, £15, £20 |
*All prices listed are inclusive of VAT.
For group bookings over £100 you are able to pay by invoice. Follow our short step-by-step guide to paying by invoice for a smooth booking process.
To make the event as accessible as possible for those usually eligible for discounted tickets, we’ve introduced a new flexible “pay what you can” option, with a suggested contribution between £5 and £20. If you are able to contribute at the higher end of this range, your support will help us to continue offering inclusive opportunities and delivering high-quality events for the wider SLT community.
The discounted “pay what you can” rate is available to:
- Students
- Newly qualified practitioners
- Those returning to practise within the last 12 months
- Retired members
- Support workers / SLT assistants
- Abstract reviewers
- Conference planning group (advisory group / programme planning)
- Clinical advisors
Conference Programme
RCSLT Conference 2025 will bring together professionals from across the speech and language therapy community for a programme that reflects both the breadth and depth of the profession. This year’s Conference will feature a wider range of content alongside our core scientific programme, including keynote speakers, and innovation and RCSLT-led presentations focused on policy, leadership, service design, and professional development.
This year’s agenda is designed to offer something for everyone: from clinically focused research to system-level thinking, from early career insights to strategic leadership discussions.
We’re pleased to share a first look at the inspiring programme for RCSLT Conference 2025 below. The full programme will be shared in the coming weeks.
This year’s scientific programme will cover a wide range of clinical and practical areas shaping the future of speech and language therapy, including:
- Working with people who stammer
- Dementia
- Early years
- ENT and critical care
- Multi-lingualism
- Digital solutions in dysphagia
- Youth justice
- Autism and neurodiversity
- Workforce
- Mealtime support
- Intervention design
- Brain injury / cognitive communication
- School-aged children
- Digital tools for long-term adult care
- Learning disabilities / difficulties
- Selective mutism
- SLT placements
- Economic value of speech and language therapy
- Intervention for children with Speech Sound Disorder (SSD)
- Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Our keynote speakers will delve into pressing topics such as:
- SLTs in leadership roles
- Advancing your career
- Wellbeing and resilience
Alongside this, our innovation sessions will explore forward-thinking themes alongside our work at the RCSLT including:
- Supervision and mentoring
- Service redesign and job planning
- SEND reform
- AI
- Supporting disability in the workplace
- The latest guidance and professional support from the RCSLT
- What’s hot in politics including the upcoming elections in Scotland and Wales
- The history of the profession
Together, these sessions, alongside networking opportunities and poster presentations, promise to spark discussion, share best practice, and inspire the SLT community for the years ahead. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of the conversation and help shape the future of the profession. Book your tickets now.
Share your ideas
This year we asked the wider speech and language therapy community to help us shape the programme for RCSLT Conference 2025 by submitting ideas for sessions you think would be great to share with the profession. Submissions are now closed and we are currently reviewing all submissions.
We appreciate your ideas and will reach out if we decide to move forward with them. We may invite participants to join panels or explore alternative ways to showcase their work beyond the conference. Additionally, we might consider your idea for other opportunities, such as case studies for our website.
What we were looking for
All impact-driven initiatives were welcome including topics such as:
- Bringing the speech and language therapy community together
- The voice of those with lived experience
- Big ticket items for the profession, e.g. dosage, thickened fluids, EDAR, CYP waiting lists and more
- Health and wellbeing in the profession
- Issues that are on the horizon, e.g. environment and sustainability, the implications of AI etc.
Please note we will not consider suggestions that purely focus on the promotion of commercial products or services.
If you are asked to contribute to the conference programme in some form, you will need to purchase a conference ticket. Super early bird and early bird rates will be made available.
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Abstract submissions
Abstract submissions are now closed and we are in the next stage of programme planning. We will endeavour to get back to all those who have submitted an abstract by the end of August with the outcome.
The submission categories for this year’s conference were: research (speech and language therapy research contributing new knowledge); and quality improvement/audit/service evaluation.
James Law Child Language Conference Prize
To honour the legacy of Professor James Law, the RCSLT has been gifted a prize to be awarded to the highest scoring abstract submitted to the RCSLT conference by an early career researcher in the child language category.
The prize will be used to fund travel, accommodation, and subsistence costs for national or international conference attendance and aims to support network building and further dissemination of the author’s portfolio of work.
To be eligible for the prize you must be an early career researcher* and have submitted a research abstract on the topic of child language. The prize will be awarded to the highest scoring abstract as identified by blind peer-reviewers.
*This means anyone leading independent research but excludes anyone who is more than 8 years post-PhD (not inclusive of career breaks e.g. sabbatical, maternity leave).
