Past Presentations

Download speaker and keynote presentations from past I CAN conferences here. If you can't find your presentation and would like it listed or you would like it removed from the site please contact info@ican.org.uk.

2008 Workforce Development Conference (March)

2007 Social Exclusion Conference (November)

  • Angela Sloan - Developing children and young people’s communication skills on a youth crime prevention project (Download PDF)
  • Dean Reddick & Kathryn Drechsler - Grief, identity & Adolescence: A speech, language and art therapy group (Download PDF)
  • Fatima Agrela, Marisa Ciesla & Tracey Sing Tracey - Working in Partnership with Parents to Reduce Social Exclusion (Download PDF)
  • James Law - Demographic and within-child factors associated with language impairment at five years and their implications for performance in adulthood (Download PDF)
  • Janet Lees, Gwen Smithies & Lisa Wigfield - Let’s Talk: What parents in NE Sheffield say about children learning to talk (Download PDF)
  • Jen Jenkin - Introducing and delivering a Speech and Language Therapy service to a developing mental health service for children and adolescents, some of whom have a learning disability and/or are Young Offenders (Download PDF)
  • Jenny Leyden, Joy Stackhouse & Marcin Szczerbinski - Does Language Delay Persist in Children from Socially Disadvantaged Backgrounds? (Download PDF)
  • Professor Karen Bryan - Speech, language and communication difficulties in juvenile offenders: issues for social exclusion (Download PDF)
  • Kate Ripley - Language Impairment and Challenging Behaviour (Download PDF)
  • Linda Hobbs, Fiona Small & Emily Goldsborough - Teaching Talking in Year 7: A Practice based presentation about a project to develop the language skills of children in secondary schools (Download PDF)
  • Lucy Myers - Literacy in the Mainstream Inner City Secondary School: Its relationship to spoken language (Download PDF)
  • Lydia Ansorge, Dr. Judy Clegg & Prof. Joy Stackhouse - Psychosocial outcomes for adults with severe developmental speech and language difficulties: Positive outcomes and individual differences (Download PDF)
  • Marion Farmer - Self understanding and social development in young people with communication difficulties. (Download PDF)
  • Maxine Burns, Jo Aldred & Catherine Rogers - A ‘SSLIC’ Approach to Language and Behaviour (Download PDF)
  • Melanie Cross -  Language and social exclusion: What are the links? (Download PDF)
  • Ruth Robinson - Speech & Language Outreach Service (Download PDF)
  • Steven Boyd - Making Sense of Secure Children’s Homes (Download PDF)
  • Susan McMackin, Rachael Dyer & Melanie Cross - Developing the communication skills of foster children at the Integrated Services Programme (Download PDF)
  • Dr. Val Brooks - In Two Minds: Why children with specific language impairment find it more difficult than their typically developing peers to understand ambivalent emotion, and the consequences for their social and academic inclusion. (Download PDF)

2007 Transdisciplinary Working (September)

  • Elspeth McCartney - Does working together actually work? (Download PDF)
  • Felicity Durham - Developing Talking and Listening Skills Together (Download PDF)
  • Helen Farmer & Jennifer Reid - Collaborative Conversations a study of conversations between teachers and speech and language therapists (Download PDF)
  • Jan Stothard - Learning from he Heywood Language Project (Download PDF)
  • Judy Roux  - The challenges and successes of Newham’s multi-professional Language, Communication and Interaction Team (Download PDF)
  • Kate Malcolmess - Core Decision-making Principles when working Collaboratively (Download PDF)
  • Marie Gascoigne - Trans-disciplinary working: ensuring the whole is greater than the sum of the parts (Download PDF)
  • Mary Hartshorne - The Cost to the Nation of Children’s Poor Communication: Scotland Edition (Download PDF)
  • Dr Marysia Nash & Mrs Emma Easton - Supporting pupils with language difficulties in secondary schools: A focus on English (Download PDF)
  • Mike Gibson - Supported Children (Download PDF)

2007 Early Years Conference (May)

  • Anne McMahon & Kerry Mulholland - Speech & Language Development Project (Download PDF)
  • Carry Faircloth & Judy Topley - Promoting Abundance: the role of the adult (Download PDF)
  • Claudine Crane - Early Years Intervention to Support Literacy Development for Children with Speech and Language Difficulties (Download PDF)
  • Di Nicholson & David Lumsdon - Sounds Great (Download PDF)
  • Janet Cooper - Assessing the evidence - A whole City approach to assessing and working with language delay (Download PDF)
  • Judith Carey - Early Years Narrative Intervention (Download PDF)
  • Keena Cummins & Kelly Brewer - Adult-Child Interaction Teacher Evaluation Tool (Download PDF)
  • Liz Royall, Emma Short & Faye Spooner - Training for Early Years Staff in Cornwall - a county wide approach (Download PDF)
  • Marilyn Donovan - Using the Nursery Narrative Pack (Download PDF)
  • Nan MacMillan - The High/Scope Approach in an Integrated Pre School Setting (Download PDF)
  • Neil Thompson & Sarah Payne - Targets and Activities Project  (Download PDF)
  • Olwen Morgen - Non-directive Communication Therapy (Download PDF)
  • Petal DuVerney Ruse, Cherry Cornell & Hadassah Lev - Small Circles Project (Download PDF)
  • Sue Mosely, Jane Cartledge, Holly Peacock & Stella Edwards - Signs and Symbols For Everyone (Download PDF)

2006 Language and Literacy Conference (November)

  • Andrew Bailey & Peter Osborn - Dialogue in Education (Download PDF)
  • Carol Johnson & Professor Usha Goswami - Computer-based language games to promote phonological awareness (Download PDF)
  • Deanne Rennie - Language Groups as a bridge to Literacy ~ Empowering teachers and children (Download PDF)
  • Elisabeth Osbourne - It’s been a while since we talked….Speaking and Listening in the Classroom (Download PDF)
  • Elspeth McCartney - Language and Literacy Support (Download PDF)
  • Emma Brown & Anita Harron - A Practical Model for Linking Language and Literacy (Download PDF1Download PDF2)
  • Jeanne Reilly - Combined Speech & Language & Literacy Assessments – the Descriptionto the Prescription (Download PDF)
  • Dr Jeni Riley - The StoryTalk research project (Download PDF)
  • Jennifer Reid & Margo Davidson - Oral Language Development Woven Into the Teaching of Imaginative Writing (Download PDF)
  • Jim Rose - Independent Review of Early Reading (Download PDF)
  • Julie Dockrell - Opening doors and widening opportunities: why evidence based practice matters (Download PDF)
  • Kate Nation - Hidden language impairments in children with poor reading comprehension (Download PDF)
  • Louise Carr - Manchester Language and Literacy Project  - Supporting schools to deliver Wave 1 & Wave 2 interventions (Download PDF)
  • Maggie Snowling - Language Skills, Learning to Read and Intervention (Download PDF)
  • Michael Thomson & Marian McCormick - Alphabetics (Download PDF)
  • Pat Robinson & Sue Eastment - Digging below the foundations of literacy! (Download PDF)
  • Sue Buckley & Julie Hughes - Teaching reading to teach talking (Download PDF)
  • Tom Richardson - Targeting Talk: Improving children’s communication skills (Download PDF)
  • Virginia Martin - Developing Written Language Skills (Download PDF)

2006 Policy Conference (October)

2006 Communication and Behaviour Conference (April) 

  • Alison Wintgens - Selective Mutism: awareness and management (Download PDF)
  • Angela Sloan - Developing communication skills towards preventing youth crime (Download PDF)
  • Ann Berger - Healthy Minds (Download PDF)
  • David Haswell - A Frightening Conclusion (Download PDF)
  • Emily Ball & Pam Cosh - Practical Tips for Behaviour Management (Download PDF)
  • Faith Hobson - Building the foundations for learning through communication (Download PDF)
  • Dr Helen Stringer - Narrative and Social skills Intervention with Adolescents with Communication Disability and BESD (Download PDF)
  • James Law - Examining the interaction between behaviour and language through the process of intervention: findings from a systematic review (Download PDF)
  • Judy Roux & Mike McKeon - Why Doesn’t He Get it? A joint professional approach to understanding the relationship between social, emotional and behavioural difficulties and language and communication difficulties in the classroom and school context. A Work in Progress! (Download PDF)
  • Karen Bryan - Communication and Behaviour: Working with Juvenile Offenders (Download PDF)
  • Kate Ripley - Language and Behaviour (Download PDF)
  • Marion Farmer & Fleur Griffiths - The Talking Table for Child-centred Conversations (Download PDF)
  • Martyn Nash & Sarah Parker - Aint Misbehaving – a collaborative approach to managing behaviours that challenge (Download PDF)
  • Mary Fanning - Parents Plus: The Early Years Programme - A DVD/Video based guide to parenting young children (1-6 years) (Download PDF)
  • Melanie Cross - Is this ADHD/ PTSD or Attachment disorder? What are the consequences for language development and how can we help communication skills develop? (Download PDF)
  • Rosemary Sage - The Communication Opportunity Group Scheme - COGS (Download PDF)
  • Sarah Heneker - Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) support for pupils with Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties (BESD) – a Pilot Project (Download PDF)
  • Sian Elides -  (Download PDF)
  • Sophie Leicester & Judy Clegg - Language for Learning (Download PDF)

 

Last modified: Oct 06 2008