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2023 Speech, Language and Communication Summit

  • Oral Language Skills
  • Language Development Process
  • Understanding Neuroscience
  • Use of Language
  • Language of Emotions
  • Playful Communication
  • Transformative Communication
  • Auditory Processing
  • Communication Disabilities & Health Disparities
  • Visual Biofeedback
  • Deafness
  • Brain-SET Environments
  • The Inclusive Environment
  • Supporting Development for Children with SEND or Autism
  • Yarning Circles
  • Nurturing Environments Specialist Training
  • Ofsted: Language and Communication
  • Music, Movement and SLC
  • Makaton Ready
  • Plus more!

from £45 incl. VAT

15  Hours of Video

Featuring: Sally Haughey, Alistair Bryce-Clegg , Professor Sam Wass, Dr. Lucretia Berry & Dr. Tehia Glass on, Molly Potter, Heeral Davda, Dr. Amanda Gummer, Dr. Claire Warden, Nick Dux, Dr. Inas Ismail and Omar Massoud, Helen Robinson, Dr. Joanne Cleland, Charlotte Davies, Sophie Hutton, Dr. Kate Rowley, Dr. Kathryn Murray, Lukas Ritson, Kirsty Godfrey and Sam Sleeman-Boss, Rebecca Skinner and Becky Poulter Jewson, Dr. Shelley Stravitz, Joanne Jones and Vicky Robinson, Tasha Bretton, Jennifer Ellison, and Dr. Lynn Williams. 

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Featured Speakers

Sally Haughey

Why focus on Oral Language Skills?

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

The Language Development Process

Prof Sam Wass

Professor Sam Wass

Proactive or Reactive?

Dr Lucretia Berry & Dr Tehia Glass

Use of Language

Molly Potter

The Language of Emotions

Heeral Davda

Challenges of the ‘Word Gap'

Dr Amanda Gummer

Playful Communication

Dr Claire Warden

Talking & Thinking Floorbooks

Nick Dux

Transformative Communication

Dr Inas Ismail & Omar Massoud

Autsera App

Helen Robinson 

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Dr Joanne Cleland

Visual Biofeedback

Charlotte Davies

Auditory Processing

Sophie Hutton

The Inclusive Environment

Dr Kate Rowley

Deafness

Dr Kathryn Murray

Brain-SET Environments

Lukas Ritson

Yarning Circles

Kirsty Godfrey & Sam Sleeman-Boss

Ofsted on Language & Communication

Rebecca Skinner & Becky Poulter Jewson

‘To be listened to is to be loved'

Dr Shelley Stravitz

The ACERS Model

Joanne Jones & Vicky Robinson

Nurturing Environments Specialist Training

Tasha Bretten

Music, Movement & SLC

Jennifer Ellison

Makaton Ready

Dr Lynn Williams

Communication Disabilities & Health Disparities

2022 Speech, Language and Communication Summit

  • Plays supporting Language Development
  • Neuroscience of Language Development
  • Story Telling
  • The Spoken Voice
  • Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
  • Linguistic Diversity, Dialect and Heritage Language
  • Multiagency Working to Support Speech & Language
  • Language Learning with Camembear
  • Links between Picture Books, Language & Literacy
  • Language of Maths
  • Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills
  • Cognitive Processing Model for Speech
  • Supporting Multi-lingual Children
  • Play and SLC
  • Stuttering
  • Selective Mutism
  • Baby and Toddler Signing

Summit Recordings from £45 incl. VAT

13  Hours of Video

Featuring: Julia Donaldson CBE, Professor Sam Wass, Ben Faulks (aka Mr Bloom), Dr Lucretia Berry, Dana Kabaila, Ms Ashley Jefferson, Dr Pam Enderby OBE, Caroline England, Dr Holly Storkel, Indigo Young, John Doleman & Fran Beard, Judith Torres, Karen Wilding, Dr Lynn Williams, Tera Sumpter, Sheona Gilmour, Georgina Durrant, Kristine Short, Lucy Nathanson, Jennifer Ellison, Tessa Weadman, Leanne Jefferson, Dr Cindy Hovington, and Emma Tunnicliffe.

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Featured Speakers

Julia Donaldson

Julia Donaldson CBE

How Plays can Support Language Development

Prof Sam Wass

Professor Sam Wass

The Neuroscience of Language Development

Ben Faulks

Ben Faulks (aka Mr Bloom)

Story Telling Secrets

Dr Lucretia Berry

Dr Lucretia Berry

The Hues of You: Giving Children the Language to Discuss Difference

Dana Kabaila

Dana Kabaila

Restorative Practice for Early Years staff

Ms Ashley Jefferson

Ms Ashley Jefferson

The Lost Art of Storytelling

Professor Pam Enderby OBE

Dr Pam Enderby OBE

Measuring Outcomes of Language Intervention

Caroline England

Caroline England

The Spoken Voice

Dr Holly Storkel

Dr Holly Storkel

Developmental Language Disorder

Indigo Young

Indigo Young

Linguistic Diversity, Dialect and Heritage Language

John and Fran

John Doleman & Fran Beard 

Multiagency Working to Support Speech and Language

Judith Torres

Judith Torres

The Links between Picture Books, Language and Literacy

Karen Wilding

Karen Wilding

The Language of Maths in the Early Years

Dr Lynn Williams

Dr Lynn Williams

PEEPS: Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills

Tera Sumpter

Tera Sumpter

A Cognitive Processing Model for Speech, Language, Literacy & Executive Functioning

Sheona Gilmour

Sheona Gilmour

Strategies for Supporting Multi-lingual Children

Georgina Durrant

Georgina Durrant

Play and Speech, Language and Communication

Kristine Short

Kristine Short

Supporting Children who Stutter

Lucy Nathanson

Selective Mutism – Myths and Strategies

Jennifer Ellison

Jennifer Ellison

Baby and Toddler Signing

Tessa Weadman

Tessa Weadman

Shared Book Reading

Leanne Jefferson

Leanne Jefferson

Learning another Language – with Camembear

Cindy Hovington

Dr Cindy Hovington

Scaffolding Language during Play

Emma Tunnicliffe

Emma Tunnicliffe

Developmental Language Disorder

2021 Speech, Language and Communication Summit

  • English as an Additional Language
  • Verbal Dyspraxia and Childhood Apraxia
  • Baby Talk and Play
  • Language And The Outdoors
  • How Words Shape The Way We Think
  • Toddler Talk & Child-Led Interactions
  • Utilising Book Diversity
  • Stuttering
  • Picture Exchange Communication System
  • Selective mutism and Non-Verbal Meaning Making
  • Developing Speech & Language Difficulties
  • Supporting the emotional needs
  • Family Engagement and Parent Support
  • Makaton and Signing

from £40 incl. VAT

18  Hours of Video

Featuring: Josephine O. Bampoe, Nicola Lathey, Baroness Hollins, Debbie Brace, Sue Asquith, Jess Gosling, Vikesh Anand, Louise Maggs, Dr Abi Hackett, Jenny Barber, Associate Professor Nerina Scarinci, Susannah Thomson, Jane Wilson, Sejal Payne, Liz Elks, Professor J. Scott Yaruss, Dr Jayne Newbury, Suzanne Axelsson, Bryony Rust, Hannah Morris, Debbie Garvey, Kirstie Page, Dr Rose Drury, Kirsty Cunnington, Dr Lakeisha Johnson, Sherri Cawn, Lauren Bryan, Joanna Grace, Chris Wade, Rebecca Skinner and Becky Poulter Jewson.

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Featured Speakers

Josephine O. Bampoe

Speech and Language Therapy Development in Ghana

Session Information

Speech and Language Therapy Development in Ghana

  • Speech and language therapy development in Ghana
  • Overcoming barriers as a new profession
  • Future plans to increase accessibility and employment

Nicola Lathey

Verbal Dyspraxia or Childhood Apraxia of Speech – a single case study

Session Information

Verbal Dyspraxia or Childhood Apraxia of Speech – a case study

  • Case study on childhood apraxia of speech (DVD)
  • Differentiating DVD from other speech disorders
  • Strategies for practitioners to support children with speech difficulties

Baroness Hollins

Wordless books supporting language

Session Information

Wordless Books Supporting Language

  • Using wordless picture books to develop communication skills
  • Empowering children and adults to express emotions through visuals
  • Beyond Words charity and resources for diverse audiences

Debbie Brace

Baby Talk and Play

Session Information

Baby Talk and Play

  • Explores how babies communicate before words, like turning away when overstimulated.
  • Discusses the importance of caregivers “receiving” and making sense of a baby's distress.
  • Offers strategies like using hand shapes to connect with a child's feelings before redirecting

Sue Asquith

Language acquisition and challenges

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Language acquisition and challenges

  • Provides an overview of typical language development and how to identify delays.
  • Shares engaging resources and activities to promote early language skills.
  • Emphasizes building practitioner knowledge, collaborating with parents, and meeting individual needs.

Jess Gosling

English as an Additional Language –  Teaching Internationally

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English as an Additional Language – Teaching Internationally

  • Shares her experience teaching in different countries, highlighting the benefits and challenges.
  • Discusses strategies for supporting English language learners and promoting multilingualism.
  • Offers insights into adapting pedagogy to diverse cultural contexts.

Vikesh Anand

Stuttering – Inspiring confidence – an adult's perspective

Session Information

Stuttering – Inspiring confidence – an adult's perspective

  • Shares his personal journey growing up with a stutter and its impact on his life.
  • Strategies for building confidence and self-acceptance as a person who stutters.
  • Advocates for raising awareness and understanding of stuttering, including through stand-up comedy

Louise Maggs

Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)

Session Information

Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS)

  • Explains the theory and development of PECS for children with autism
  • Outlines the six phases of PECS, from single picture exchange to commenting
  • Shares tips for starting PECS, training staff, and overcoming challenges

Dr Abi Hackett

Young children's non-verbal meaning making

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Young Children's Non-Verbal Meaning Making

  • Explores how young children's communication is deeply entangled with place, objects, and movement.
  • Advocates for embracing diverse forms of meaning-making beyond just spoken language.
  • Encourages slowing down and valuing non-obstructive practices in early years pedagogy.

Jenny Barber

Interactions and language

Session Information

Interactions And Language

  • Provides insights into how children acquire language and the role of adults in this process.
  • Offers practical strategies for promoting language across all areas of development.
  • Discusses ways to engage with parents and support their involvement in language development.

Associate Professor Nerina Scarinci

Family Engagement

Session Information

Interactions And Language

  • Identified 7 clusters representing characteristics of engaged families
  • Emphasizes the importance of an open, honest relationship with families
  • Provides practical strategies for building therapeutic relationships

Rebecca Skinner and Becky Poulter Jewson

Language and the outdoors

Session Information

Language And The Outdoors

  • Outdoor environments promote emotional regulation, enabling deeper engagement and learning.
  • Natural resources encourage imagination and richer conversations,
  • enhancing language development.Practitioners should trust children, share power, and allow freedom for quality interactions.

Susannah Thomson

Selective Mutism

Session Information

Selective Mutism

  • Selective mutism is an anxiety disorder where a person struggles to speak in certain situations.
  • Early intervention is crucial; practitioners can educate themselves and implement strategies.
  • Support is available for adults with selective mutism to expand their comfort zones gradually.

Jane Wilson

screening, monitoring & supporting children's speech sound development

Session Information

Screening, Monitoring & Supporting Children's Speech Sound Development

  • Engaging visual model to understand speech & language development holistically
  • Low-pressure approach to support speech sounds through daily routines & activities
  • Eco-friendly speech therapy resources promoting sustainability

Sejal Payne

English as an Additional Language

Session Information

English as an Additional Language

  • Gather robust information about children's language exposure and skills from families
  • Provide language-rich environments that reflect children's backgrounds and identities
  • Facilitate meaningful interactions and model language in context for language acquisition

Liz Elks

Children at Risk of Developing Speech & Language Difficulties

Session Information

Children at Risk of Developing Speech & Language Difficulties

  • Respond consistently to babies' cues to build intentional communication from birth
  • Facilitate play experiences that develop symbolization skills for language learning
  • Be a responsive interaction partner: wait, listen, comment rather than question

Professor J. Scott Yaruss

Early Childhood Stuttering – support and advice

Session Information

Early Childhood Stuttering – support and advice

  • Stuttering involves disruptions in speech and feeling “stuck” while speaking
  • Many young children stutter, but most recover without intervention
  • Comprehensive therapy focused on communication skills is key

Dr Jayne Newbury

What parents / caregivers’ know about early child language development and why it matters.

Session Information

What Parents / Caregivers’ Know About Early Child Language Development And Why It Matters.

  • Many parents understand the importance of interaction but lack specific knowledge
  • TV/screen time impacts language development differently by age
  • Clear, consistent messaging from professionals can improve parental knowledge

Suzanne Axelsson

How words shape the way we think

Session Information

What How Words Shape The Way We Think / Caregivers’ Know About Early Child Language Development And Why It Matters.

  • Explores the importance of mindful communication and its impact on children.
  • Shares strategies for slowing down, observing closely, and listening deeply.
  • Advocates for an inclusive, transdisciplinary approach to early education.

Bryony Rust

Toddler Talk & Child-Led Interactions

Session Information

Toddler Talk & Child-Led Interactions

  • Offers strategies for building attention skills and core vocabulary.
  • Emphasizes accepting and affirming children's communication attempts.
  • Provides resources for practitioners and parents on her website and courses.

Hannah Morris

Supporting the emotional needs of children with speech and language difficulties

Session Information

Supporting the emotional needs of children with speech and language difficulties

  • Explores how emotions impact brain functioning and learning in children with speech/language needs.
  • Provides strategies for identifying emotional needs and collaborating with families for support.
  • Offers top tips like using visuals for emotional literacy and building nurturing relationships.

Debbie Garvey

The Language of Leadership

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The Language of Leadership

  • Leaders should embrace being learners, enablers, mentors, and developers of their team.
  • Use inclusive language like “we” to foster a collective journey towards quality experiences.
  • Effective leaders nurture relationships, enable debate, risk-taking, and problem-solving.

Kirstie Page

Speech & language – the bedrock for literacy

Session Information

Speech & Language – The Bedrock For Literacy

  • Speech and language underpin all areas of child development, from interactions to learning and play.
  • Identifying and addressing gaps in skills like auditory memory is crucial for literacy readiness.
  • Involve parents as primary language facilitators and celebrate children's successes

Dr Rose Drury

exploring young bilingual children’s learning at home & in nursery

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Exploring Young Bilingual Children’s Learning At Home & In Nursery

  • Recognizing the increasing diversity and importance of fostering bilingualism as a resource.
  • Emphasising the cognitive and cultural benefits of maintaining the mother tongue.
  • Advocating for strategies to support bilingual children's linguistic and cultural experiences.

Kirsty Cunnington

Parent support with language building & communication

Session Information

Parent Support With Language Building & Communication

  • Diverse online activities, books, and resources for parents to engage children aged 0-6
  • Fun ideas like singing nursery rhymes in different languages and making “mud kitchens”
  • Links to virtual libraries, author events, and literacy competitions

Dr Lakeisha Johnson

Utilising diverse books in an Early Years setting

Session Information

Utilising diverse books in an Early Years setting

  • Tips for choosing quality diverse books with rich vocabulary and storylines
  • Activities to extend books through dramatic play, music, science experiments
  • Her website Maya's Book Nook with book guides, author interviews, themed booklists

Sherri Cawn

Communication Disorders and the Profectum Academy

Session Information

Communication Disorders and the Profectum Academy

  • Emphasizes a developmentally-minded, relationship-based approach to communication disorders.
  • Highlights the importance of play in developing social communication skills.
  • Discusses signs to look for in children with communication challenges.

Lauren Bryan

Makaton and Signing

Session Information

Makaton and Signing

  • Explains how signing can support spoken language development from an early age.
  • Discusses the use of Makaton signs and symbols for effective communication.
  • Provides practical tips for incorporating signing in early years settings.

Joanna Grace

Ambitious Sensory Story Sharing

Session Information

Ambitious Sensory Story Sharing

  • Engaging narrative through sensory experiences for inclusive learning
  • Promoting multi-sensory storytelling techniques for diverse abilities
  • Practical tips for creating rich, immersive sensory stories

Chris Wade

Supporting parents during tribunals and autism diagnostics

Session Information

Supporting Parents During Tribunals And Autism Diagnostics

  • Insights into speech and language assessment appeals and tribunal processes
  • Detailed overview of multidisciplinary autism diagnostic assessments
  • Positive approach to supporting neurodiversity and strengths-based interventions

2020 Speech, Language and Communication Summit

  • Typical speech development
  • Environments for communication
  • Practice and Pedagogy
  • Child directed speech
  • Multilingual and dual language learners
  • Music and supporting speech development
  • Literacy, reading and writing progression
  • Makaton
  • Social communication disorders with autism
  • Selective mutism

£36 incl. VAT

14  Hours of Video

Featuring: June O'Sullivan MBE, Elizabeth Jarman, Dr Lakeisha Johnson, Prof Julian Pine, Greg Bottrill, Fran Paffard, Pennie Brownlee, Maggie Johnson, Sue Fisher, Libby Hill, Nancy Stewart, Julie Cigman, Dr Jessica Pitt, Jean Gross CBE, Di Chilvers, Dr Tanya Richardson, Dr Carla Solvason, Dr Tiffany P Hogan, Karen Nemeth, Justine Woolley and Emma Tunnicliffe, Nicola Lathey and Dr Kelly Burgoyne.

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Featured Speakers

June O'Sullivan MBE

CEO of the London Early Years Foundation (LEYF)

Session Information

Language & Pedagogy:

  • Language Development & Links To Child Poverty 
  • The Language Gap  
  • 7 Strands of The LEYF Pedagogy

Dr Tiffany P Hogan

Director of SAiL and Professor at MGH Institute

Session Information

Dyslexia & DLD:

  • Basis of dyslexia
  • dyslexia links to other communication differences
  • SeeHearSpeak podcast

Elizabeth Jarman

Author and consultant

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Communication Friendly spaces ©:

  • Communication Friendly Spaces
  • Differentiation of spaces
  • Being responsive to children's needs

Sue Fisher

Specialist consultant in Makaton

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Makaton:

  • Benefits of Makaton
  • Two-way communication with Makaton
  • practical strategies to embed Makaton

Libby Hill

Speech and Language Therapist & consultant on Channel 4 ‘Born Naughty?'

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Behaviour as Communication:

  • Communication problems & behaviour
  • Animal Assisted Therapy
  • Small Talkers

Dr Jessica Pitt

Lecturer in Music Education at The Royal College of Music

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Music, Speech and Language:

  • SALTMusic research
  • micro-songs
  • creative musical approaches to S+LT

Emma Tunnicliffe

Speech and Language Therapist

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SaLT In Schools:

  • The Balance System For S+LT
  • Strategies For Teachers
  • Strategies For Parents

Di Chilvers

Author and advisory consultant

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Mathematical Development:

  • impact of language and talk on mathematical development
  • developing and extending language to support maths
  • Development Map and Observation Tool Kit 

Dr Carla Solvason

Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester

Session Information

Development of Language:

  • typical speech & language development
  • Being professionally curious
  • researching children’s speech & language Development

Prof Julian Pine

Professor at the University of Liverpool & Director of LuCiD

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Strategies for language development:

  • Child Directed Speech
  • techniques & strategies to encourage language development
  •  joint book reading

Greg Bottrill 

Author and Consultant

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The Mystery of children & communication:

  • children as co-creators of play
  •  magic of children
  • Play School TV

Dr Tanya Richardson

Senior Lecturer at the University of Northampton

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Impact of the Environment:

  • indoor classroom, outdoor classroom & natural environments
  • assessing environments
  • research from a child's viewpoint

Nancy Stewart

Author and Consultant

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Communication Birth to 3:

  • communication in the birth to three age
  • the role of the environment
  • strategies for the baby room

Karen Nemeth

Author, consultant and creator of CASTLE Approach

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Dual Language Learners:

  • Language CASTLE
  • many languages in a setting
  • family engagement

Julie Cigman

Author and Consultant

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Environments for EAL:

  • Enabling environment for children with EAL
  • Assessment and planning for children with EAL
  • Resources and activities for both setting and home partnership

Dr Lakeisha Johnson

Assistant Professor University of the District of Columbia

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Culturally relevant books, language & literacy:

  • links between language & literacy
  • Maya’s Book Nook
  • bridging the gap between research & practice

Dr Kelly Burgoyne

Lecturer at the University of Manchester

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Working with Parents:

  • Parents and Children Together (PACT) project
  • oral language
  • practical strategies from the research

Pennie Brownlee

Author and Consultant

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Verbal Respect:

  • verbal respect
  •  language constructs a child’s own culture, self-image & world view
  • identifying language patterns

Nicola Lathey

Speech and Language Therapist and author

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Autistic Spectrum Disorders:

  • social communication difficulties
  • autistic spectrum disorders
  • supporting families

Maggie Johnson

Author and Speech and language Therapist

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Selective Mutism:

  • Selective mutism
  • understanding how the child feels
  • strategies for children & families

Fran Paffard

Senior Lecturer at the University of East London & The University of Cumbria

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Multi-lingualLearners:

  • Benefits of more than one language
  • cultural variations
  • practical strategies to support multilingual families

Jean Gross CBE

Speaker & former English Government communication champion for children

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Holistic Development and vocabulary:

  • The impact of the word gap on children's development
  • children's emotional wellbeing and resilience
  • sharing books

Justine Woolley

Speech and Language Therapist

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SaLT in schools:

  • The Balance System for S+LT
  • strategies for teachers
  • strategies for parents

Literacies Early Years Summit 

  • What type of ‘literacies' are there?
  • What do children need to know before phonics?
  • World of Words
  • Musical literacy
  • Mathematical understanding
  • Physical Literacy
  • Emotional and social literacies
  • Literacy, reading and writing progression
  • Early writing skills
  • Holistic links across all literacies

£36 incl. VAT

11  Hours of Video

Featuring: Alistair Bryce-Clegg, Dr Brynn Welch, Katrice Horsely. Sonia Mainstone-Cotton, Greg Bottrill, Elaine Bennett, Jo Meakin, Molly Potter,  Prof Susan Neuman, Zoe Greenhalgh, Ann Baker, Emma Hutchinson, Dr Lala Manners, Connie Bergstein Dow, Sharon Skade, Sandi Phoenix, Julie Cigman, Alison Featherbe, Tamsin Grimmer and Barbara Schindelhauer.

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Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Katrice Horsley

Greg Bottrill

Jo Meakin

Dr Susan Neuman

Sandi Phoenix

Dr Brynn Welch

Sonia Mainstone Cotton

Elaine Bennett

Molly Potter

Zoe Greenhalgh

Ann Baker

Barbara Schindelhauer

Emma Hutchinson

Dr Lala Manners

Connie Bergstein Dow

Sharon Skade

Julie Cigman

Alison Featherbe

Tamsin Grimmer

Challenge and Risk in the Early Years

  • Encouraging risk taking in cognitive development
  • Supporting parents on the benefits of risky play
  • The 6 types of risky play
  • Seeing risk from the child's perspective
  • Introducing woodworking into an Early Years setting
  • Outdoor environments for exploration and discovery
  • Froebel's view on adventurous play
  • How to help staff implement good risky play activities safely
  • How leaders affect risk taking with their staff in the setting
  • Japanese Early Years settings and their attitudes to risk taking
  • Risky play in the Reggio Emilia environment and pedagogy
  • Benefit/risk assessment and play policies in Early Years settings

£36 incl. VAT

9 Hours of Video

Featuring: Alistair Bryce-Clegg, Dr Diane Kashin, Rachel Buckler. Dr Mariana Brussoni, Pete Moorhouse, Chanie Wilschanscki, Sandi Phoenix, Julie Mountain, Sid Mohandas, Dr Tim Gill, Prof Ellen Sandseter, Kathryn Solly, Chris Phoenix, Niki Buchan, Helen Little and Helen Tovey.

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Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Dr Mariana Brussoni

Sandi Phoenix

Dr Tim Gill

Chris Phoenix

Dr Diane Kashin

Pete Moorhouse

Julie Mountain

Prof Ellen Sandseter

Niki Buchan 

Helen Tovey

Rachel Buckler

Chanie Wilschanscki

Sid Mohandas

Kathryn Solly

Helen Little

Leading Practitioners, Leading Practice 

  • Playfulness and Learning
  • Outstanding childminders environment
  • Self-narratives and practitioner wellbeing
  • The role of networks in supporting practitioners
  • The unique role of the Early Years in safeguarding children
  • Children's wellbeing as a manny/nanny
  • Babies' wellbeing
  • Outdoors Play and Learning

£36 incl. VAT

10.5 Hours of Video

Featuring: Alistair Bryce-Clegg, Vanessa Dooley, Lisa Stell, Christopher Phoenix, Jamel Campbell, Sarah Fillingham, Lauren Coulter, Rachel Buckler, Ursula Krystek-Walton, Sandi Phoenix, Daniel Butcher, Susan Stacey, Diana Suskind, Jon Rolnik, Tash Treveton, Nicole Halton, Professor Jan White, Claire Foster, Jill Watts, Kim Hunter, Viki Veale and Claire Martin.

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Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Lisa Stell

Sandi Phoenix

Daniel Butcher

Diana Suskind

Nicole Halton

Viki Veale

Vanessa Dooley

Christopher Phoenix

Sarah Fillingham

Ursula Krystek-Walton

Jon Rolnik

Jill Watts

Claire Martin

Kim Hunter

Rachel Buckler

Jamel Campbell

Lauren Coulter

Susan Stacey

Tash Treveton

Claire Foster

Prof Jan White

Children's Outdoor Play and Learning

  • Natural Playspaces and Sustainability
  • “Resource Free” Outdoor Play
  • Arts and Outdoor Play
  • Designing Play Spaces that Meet Children's Needs
  • Puddle Play, Mud Kitchens and Spirituality
  • Nature Pedagogy in the UK and around the world
  • Learning from outdoor expeditions
  • Practical Experiences from Timbernook and Cedarsong

£36 incl. VAT

9.5 Hours of Video

Featuring: Jan White, Michael Follet, Dr Sue Elliott, Natalie Canning, Julie Mountain, Julie Ann White, Angela Hanscom, Juliet Robertson, Dr Red Ruby Scarlet, Kathryn Solly, Toni and Robin Christie, Terri Harrison, Claire Warden, Menna Godfrey, Erin Kenny and Liz Edwards

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Liz Edwards

Dr Sue Elliott

Natalie Canning

Julie Mountain

Julie Mountain

Julie Ann White

Angela Hanscom

Juliet Robinson

Dr Red Ruby Scarlet

Toni and Robin Christie

Kathryn Solly

Terri Harrison

Claire Warden

Menna Godfrey

Erin Kenny

Michael Follett

Jan White

Physical Development

  • Children's Movement and Outdoor Provision
  • Outdoors and Nature Play
  • Early Childhood Reflexes and Physical Development
  • Healthy Postures for Children and Babies
  • Early Years Obesity and the Effects on Children's Development
  • Toddlers Moving and Learning
  • The Role of Music in Physical Development
  • The Practitioner's Role in Physical Development

£36 incl. VAT

10 Hours of Video

Featuring: Barbara Isaacs, Rae Pica, Maggie Dent, Sue Palmer, Dr Lala Manners, Jan White, Sue Robb, Kathleen Porter, Helen Battelley, Prof Pat Preedy, Anne O'Connor, Nicola Burke, Steven White, Sharon Skade and Sandi Phoenix

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Sally Goddard Blythe

Rae Pica

Steven White

Sue Robb

Prof. Pat Preedy

Maggie Dent

Nicola Burke

Helen Battelley

Sandi Phoenix

Sharon Skade

Sue Palmer

Kathleen Porter

Dr Lala Manners

Anne O'Connor

Barbara Isaacs

Children’s Personal, Social and Emotional Well-Being: Strategies for Support

  • Children's Independence and Self-Development
  • Improving PSED through Physical Development
  • Using the Leuven Scales
  • The Vital Role of the “Significant Other”
  • Drop-off and Pick-up Strategies
  • PSED in Birth to Three
  • The “Cups Philosophy” for PSED
  • Neuroscience to Support PSED
  • PSED for Children with Autism

£36 incl. VAT

Featuring: Alistair Bryce-Clegg, Professor Chris Pascal & Professor Tony Bertram, Jane Evans, Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, Julia Manning Morton, Rob Fox, Sandi Phoenix, Michelle Myers, Debi Keyte Hartland, Wendy Baker, Suzanne Axelsson,  Sonia Mainstone-Cotton, Mine Conkbayir and Dr Sue Allingham

Click here to find out more about the Personal, Social & Emotional Well-Being Summit speakers and their topics

To find out our fabulous speakers' topics CLICK on their pictures.

Marion Dowling

Jane Evans

Prof. Chris Pascal 

Prof. Tony Bertram

Dr Suzanne Zeedyk

Julia Manning-Morton

Rob Fox

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Sandi Phoenix

“Mrs M”

Debi Keyte-Hartland

Wendy Baker

Suzanne Axelsson

Sonia Mainstone-Cotton

Mine Conkbayir

Dr Sue Allingham

Talking With Children and Quality Interactions

  • Strategic Approaches to Talking with Children
  • Effective Questions and a Supporting Environment
  • Communication and Interaction with Babies
  • Collaboration in Early Years Practice
  • Having Fun with Language
  • Using Language with Pre-School and Reception Age Children
  • Peer Observations to Support Colleagues
  • The Parent's Perspective on Quality Interactions

£36 incl. VAT

Featuring: Marion Dowling, Penny Tassoni, Laura Henry, Julie Fisher, Ann Clare, Michael Jones, June O'Sullivan, Alistair Bryce-Clegg, Jane Bulkeley, Niki Buchan and Chris Reid

Click here to find out more about the Talking With Children Summit speakers and their topics

To find out our fabulous speakers' topics CLICK on their pictures.

Laura Henry

Penny Tassoni

Marion Dowling

Kathy Brodie

Prof. Julie Fisher

Dr. Ann Clare

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

Michael Jones

Chris Reid

June O'Sullivan MBE

Dr. Jane Bulkeley

Niki Buchan

Summit Transcripts

Downloadable PDFs with detailed transcripts of all the interviews from each summit. We also have printed books available for the Spring 2017 Summit on Children’s Personal, Social and Emotional Well-Being.

Please note – the Transcripts for the 2021-2023 summits are available as part of the Gold and Platinum Recordings packages only.

2023 Speech, Language and Communication Summit: Recordings + Transcripts + Workbook

  • Oral Language Skills
  • Language Development Process
  • Understanding Neuroscience
  • Use of Language
  • Language of Emotions
  • Playful Communication
  • Transformative Communication
  • Auditory Processing
  • Communication Disabilities & Health Disparities
  • Visual Biofeedback
  • Deafness
  • Brain-SET Environments
  • The Inclusive Environment
  • Supporting Development for Children with SEND or Autism
  • Yarning Circles
  • Nurturing Environments Specialist Training
  • Ofsted: Language and Communication
  • Music, Movement and SLC
  • Makaton Ready
  • Plus more!

£75(approx $90 USD or $125 AUD).

274 Pages Transcript + Recordings + Workbook

Featuring: Sally Haughey, Alistair Bryce-Clegg , Professor Sam Wass, Dr. Lucretia Berry & Dr. Tehia Glass on, Molly Potter, Heeral Davda, Dr. Amanda Gummer, Dr. Claire Warden, Nick Dux, Dr. Inas Ismail and Omar Massoud, Helen Robinson, Dr. Joanne Cleland, Charlotte Davies, Sophie Hutton, Dr. Kate Rowley, Dr. Kathryn Murray, Lukas Ritson, Kirsty Godfrey and Sam Sleeman-Boss, Rebecca Skinner and Becky Poulter Jewson, Dr. Shelley Stravitz, Joanne Jones and Vicky Robinson, Tasha Bretton, Jennifer Ellison, and Dr. Lynn Williams. 

Click here to find out more about the 2023 Speech, Language and Communication speakers and their topics

To find more info about our fabulous speakers' topics CLICK on their pictures.

Featured Speakers

Sally Haughey

Why focus on Oral Language Skills?

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

The Language Development Process

Prof Sam Wass

Professor Sam Wass

Proactive or Reactive?

Dr Lucretia Berry & Dr Tehia Glass

Use of Language

Molly Potter

The Language of Emotions

Heeral Davda

Challenges of the ‘Word Gap'

Dr Amanda Gummer

Playful Communication

Dr Claire Warden

Talking & Thinking Floorbooks

Nick Dux

Transformative Communication

Dr Inas Ismail & Omar Massoud

Autsera App

Helen Robinson 

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Dr Joanne Cleland

Visual Biofeedback

Charlotte Davies

Auditory Processing

Sophie Hutton

The Inclusive Environment

Dr Kate Rowley

Deafness

Dr Kathryn Murray

Brain-SET Environments

Lukas Ritson

Yarning Circles

Kirsty Godfrey & Sam Sleeman-Boss

Ofsted on Language & Communication

Rebecca Skinner & Becky Poulter Jewson

‘To be listened to is to be loved'

Dr Shelley Stravitz

The ACERS Model

Joanne Jones & Vicky Robinson

Nurturing Environments Specialist Training

Tasha Bretten

Music, Movement & SLC

Jennifer Ellison

Makaton Ready

Dr Lynn Williams

Communication Disabilities & Health Disparities

2022 Speech, Language and Communication Summit: Recordings + Transcripts + Workbook

  • Plays supporting Language Development
  • Neuroscience of Language Development
  • Story Telling
  • The Spoken Voice
  • Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
  • Linguistic Diversity, Dialect and Heritage Language
  • Multiagency Working to Support Speech & Language
  • Language Learning with Camembear
  • Links between Picture Books, Language & Literacy
  • Language of Maths
  • Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills
  • Cognitive Processing Model for Speech
  • Supporting Multi-lingual Children
  • Play and SLC
  • Stuttering
  • Selective Mutism
  • Baby and Toddler Signing

£75(approx $90 USD or $125 AUD).

232 Pages Transcript + Recordings + Workbook

Featuring: Julia Donaldson CBE, Professor Sam Wass, Ben Faulks (aka Mr Bloom), Dr Lucretia Berry, Dana Kabaila, Ms Ashley Jefferson, Dr Pam Enderby OBE, Caroline England, Dr Holly Storkel, Indigo Young, John Doleman & Fran Beard, Judith Torres, Karen Wilding, Dr Lynn Williams, Tera Sumpter, Sheona Gilmour, Georgina Durrant, Kristine Short, Lucy Nathanson, Jennifer Ellison, Tessa Weadman, Leanne Jefferson, Dr Cindy Hovington, and Emma Tunnicliffe.

2021 Speech, Language and Communication Summit: Recordings + Transcripts + Workbook

  • English as an Additional Language
  • Verbal Dyspraxia and Childhood Apraxia
  • Baby Talk and Play
  • Language And The Outdoors
  • How Words Shape The Way We Think
  • Toddler Talk & Child-Led Interactions
  • Utilising Book Diversity
  • Stuttering
  • Picture Exchange Communication System
  • Selective mutism and Non-Verbal Meaning Making
  • Developing Speech & Language Difficulties
  • Supporting the emotional needs
  • Family Engagement and Parent Support
  • Makaton and Signing

£66(approx $90 USD or $125 AUD).

329 Pages Transcript + Recordings + Workbook

Featuring: Josephine O. Bampoe, Nicola Lathey, Baroness Hollins, Debbie Brace, Sue Asquith, Jess Gosling, Vikesh Anand, Louise Maggs, Dr Abi Hackett, Jenny Barber, Associate Professor Nerina Scarinci, Susannah Thomson, Jane Wilson, Sejal Payne, Liz Elks, Professor J. Scott Yaruss, Dr Jayne Newbury, Suzanne Axelsson, Bryony Rust, Hannah Morris, Debbie Garvey, Kirstie Page, Dr Rose Drury, Kirsty Cunnington, Dr Lakeisha Johnson, Sherri Cawn, Lauren Bryan, Joanna Grace, Chris Wade, Rebecca Skinner and Becky Poulter Jewson.

2020 Speech, Language and Communication Summit Transcripts

  • Typical speech development
  • Environments for communication
  • Practice and Pedagogy
  • Child directed speech
  • Multilingual and dual language learners
  • Music and supporting speech development
  • Literacy, reading and writing progression
  • Makaton
  • Social communication disorders with autism
  • Selective mutism

£18(approx $22 USD or $33 AUD).

249 Pages

Featuring: June O'Sullivan MBE, Elizabeth Jarman, Dr Lakeisha Johnson, Prof Julian Pine, Greg Bottrill, Fran Paffard, Pennie Brownlee, Maggie Johnson, Sue Fisher, Libby Hill, Nancy Stewart, Julie Cigman, Dr Jessica Pitt, Jean Gross CBE, Di Chilvers, Dr Tanya Richardson, Dr Carla Solvason, Dr Tiffany P Hogan, Karen Nemeth, Justine Woolley and Emma Tunnicliffe, Nicola Lathey and Dr Kelly Burgoyne.

Literacies Early Years Summit Transcripts

  • What type of ‘literacies' are there?
  • What do children need to know before phonics?
  • World of Words
  • Musical literacy
  • Mathematical understanding
  • Physical Literacy
  • Emotional and social literacies
  • Literacy, reading and writing progression
  • Early writing skills
  • Holistic links across all literacies

£18(approx $22 USD, $33 AUD)

218 Pages

Featuring: Alistair Bryce-Clegg, Dr Brynn Welch, Katrice Horsely. Sonia Mainstone-Cotton, Greg Bottrill, Elaine Bennett, Jo Meakin, Molly Potter,  Prof Susan Neuman, Zoe Greenhalgh, Ann Baker, Emma Hutchinson, Dr Lala Manners, Connie Bergstein Dow, Sharon Skade, Sandi Phoenix, Julie Cigman, Alison Featherbe, Tamsin Grimmer and Barbara Schindelhauer.

Challenge and Risk in the Early Years Transcripts

  • Encouraging risk taking in cognitive development
  • Supporting parents on the benefits of risky play
  • The 6 types of risky play
  • Seeing risk from the child's perspective
  • Introducing woodworking into an Early Years setting
  • Outdoor environments for exploration and discovery
  • Froebel's view on adventurous play
  • How to help staff implement good risky play activities safely
  • How leaders affect risk taking with their staff in the setting
  • Japanese Early Years settings and their attitudes to risk taking
  • Risky play in the Reggio Emilia environment and pedagogy
  • Benefit/risk assessment and play policies in Early Years settings

£18(approx $22 USD or $33 AUD).

174 Pages

Featuring: Alistair Bryce-Clegg, Dr Diane Kashin, Rachel Buckler. Dr Mariana Brussoni, Pete Moorhouse, Chanie Wilschanscki, Sandi Phoenix, Julie Mountain, Sid Mohandas, Dr Tim Gill, Prof Ellen Sandseter, Kathryn Solly, Chris Phoenix, Niki Buchan, Helen Little and Helen Tovey.

Leading Practitioners, Leading Practice Transcripts

  • Playfulness and Learning
  • Outstanding childminders environment
  • Self-narratives and practitioner wellbeing
  • The role of networks in supporting practitioners
  • The unique role of the Early Years in safeguarding children
  • Children's wellbeing as a manny/nanny
  • Babies' wellbeing
  • Outdoors Play and Learning

£18(approx $22 USD or $33 AUD).

175 Pages

Featuring: Alistair Bryce-Clegg, Vanessa Dooley, Lisa Stell, Christopher Phoenix, Jamel Campbell, Sarah Fillingham, Lauren Coulter, Rachel Buckler, Ursula Krystek-Walton, Sandi Phoenix, Daniel Butcher, Susan Stacey, Diana Suskind, Jon Rolnik, Tash Treveton, Nicole Halton, Professor Jan White, Claire Foster, Jill Watts, Kim Hunter, Viki Veale and Claire Martin.

Children's Outdoor Play and Learning Transcripts

  • Natural Playspaces and Sustainability
  • “Resource Free” Outdoor Play
  • Arts and Outdoor Play
  • Designing Play Spaces that Meet Children's Needs
  • Puddle Play, Mud Kitchens and Spirituality
  • Nature Pedagogy in the UK and around the world
  • Learning from outdoor expeditions
  • Practical Experiences from Timbernook and Cedarsong

£18(approx $22 USD or $33 AUD).

168 Pages

Featuring: Jan White, Michael Follet, Dr Sue Elliot, Natalie Canning, Julie Mountain, Julie Ann White, Angela Hanscom, Juliet Robertson, Dr Red Ruby Scarlet, Kathryn Solly, Toni and Robin Christie, Terri Harrison, Claire Warden, Menna Godfrey, Erin Kenny and Liz Edwards.

Physical Development Transcripts

  • Children's Movement and Outdoor Provision
  • Outdoors and Nature Play
  • Early Childhood Reflexes and Physical Development
  • Healthy Postures for Children and Babies
  • Early Years Obesity and the Effects on Children's Development
  • Toddlers Moving and Learning
  • The Role of Music in Physical Development
  • The Practitioner's Role in Physical Development

£18(approx $22 USD or $33 AUD).

221 Pages

Featuring: Barbara Isaacs, Rae Pica, Maggie Dent, Sue Palmer, Dr Lala Manners, Jan White, Sue Robb, Kathleen Porter, Helen Battelley, Prof Pat Preedy, Anne O'Connor, Nicola Burke, Steven White, Sharon Skade and Sandi Phoenix

Children’s Personal, Social and Emotional Well-Being: Strategies for Support Transcripts

  • Children's Independence and Self-Development
  • Improving PSED through Physical Development
  • Using the Leuven Scales
  • The Vital Role of the “Significant Other”
  • Drop-off and Pick-up Strategies
  • PSED in Birth to Three
  • The “Cups Philosophy” for PSED
  • Neuroscience to Support PSED
  • PSED for Children with Autism

£18(approx $22 USD or $33 AUD).)

189 Pages

Featuring: Alistair Bryce-Clegg, Professor Chris Pascal & Professor Tony Bertram, Jane Evans, Dr Suzanne Zeedyk, Julia Manning Morton, Rob Fox, Sandi Phoenix, Michelle Myers, Debi Keyte Hartland, Wendy Baker, Suzanne Axelsson,  Sonia Mainstone-Cotton, Mine Conkbayir and Dr Sue Allingham

Downloadable PDF or Printed Book options available. P&P charged on printed book (£2 in UK, £5.50 in Europe £8 rest of world).

Summit Certificates

Early Years Summit Continued Personal and Professional Development certificates are personalised with your name, dated, with the number of hours of Professional Development and an outline of the Summit topics.Purchase of the certificate gives you Lifetime access to a quiz which confirms your knowledge of the content presented on the Summit and helps in your learning process. This is not just a ‘certificate of attendance'. You can do the quiz at any time at your convenience, either during the summit week or afterwards. Successful completion of the quiz allows you to download and print the certificate with your name and the date on it or you can store it electronically in your professional development file.You'll need to correctly answer 80% of the questions on the Summit Quiz to get your certificate and you can have more than one attempt.

2023 Speech, Language and Communication Summit Certificate

  • Oral Language Skills
  • Language Development Process
  • Understanding Neuroscience
  • Use of Language
  • Language of Emotions
  • Playful Communication
  • Transformative Communication
  • Auditory Processing
  • Communication Disabilities & Health Disparities
  • Visual Biofeedback
  • Deafness
  • Brain-SET Environments
  • The Inclusive Environment
  • Supporting Development for Children with SEND or Autism
  • Yarning Circles
  • Nurturing Environments Specialist Training
  • Ofsted: Language and Communication
  • Music, Movement and SLC
  • Makaton Ready
  • Plus more!

£20 incl. VAT

15 CPD Hours

Featuring: Sally Haughey, Alistair Bryce-Clegg , Professor Sam Wass, Dr. Lucretia Berry & Dr. Tehia Glass on, Molly Potter, Heeral Davda, Dr. Amanda Gummer, Dr. Claire Warden, Nick Dux, Dr. Inas Ismail and Omar Massoud, Helen Robinson, Dr. Joanne Cleland, Charlotte Davies, Sophie Hutton, Dr. Kate Rowley, Dr. Kathryn Murray, Lukas Ritson, Kirsty Godfrey and Sam Sleeman-Boss, Rebecca Skinner and Becky Poulter Jewson, Dr. Shelley Stravitz, Joanne Jones and Vicky Robinson, Tasha Bretton, Jennifer Ellison, and Dr. Lynn Williams. 

Click here to find out more about the 2023 Speech, Language and Communication speakers and their topics

To find more info about our fabulous speakers' topics CLICK on their pictures.

Featured Speakers

Sally Haughey

Why focus on Oral Language Skills?

Alistair Bryce-Clegg

The Language Development Process

Prof Sam Wass

Professor Sam Wass

Proactive or Reactive?

Dr Lucretia Berry & Dr Tehia Glass

Use of Language

Molly Potter

The Language of Emotions

Heeral Davda

Challenges of the ‘Word Gap'

Dr Amanda Gummer

Playful Communication

Dr Claire Warden

Talking & Thinking Floorbooks

Nick Dux

Transformative Communication

Dr Inas Ismail & Omar Massoud

Autsera App

Helen Robinson 

Augmentative and Alternative Communication

Dr Joanne Cleland

Visual Biofeedback

Charlotte Davies

Auditory Processing

Sophie Hutton

The Inclusive Environment

Dr Kate Rowley

Deafness

Dr Kathryn Murray

Brain-SET Environments

Lukas Ritson

Yarning Circles

Kirsty Godfrey & Sam Sleeman-Boss

Ofsted on Language & Communication

Rebecca Skinner & Becky Poulter Jewson

‘To be listened to is to be loved'

Dr Shelley Stravitz

The ACERS Model

Joanne Jones & Vicky Robinson

Nurturing Environments Specialist Training

Tasha Bretten

Music, Movement & SLC

Jennifer Ellison

Makaton Ready

Dr Lynn Williams

Communication Disabilities & Health Disparities

2022 Speech, Language and Communication Summit Certificate

  • Plays supporting Language Development
  • Neuroscience of Language Development
  • Story Telling
  • The Spoken Voice
  • Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
  • Linguistic Diversity, Dialect and Heritage Language
  • Multiagency Working to Support Speech & Language
  • Language Learning with Camembear
  • Links between Picture Books, Language & Literacy
  • Language of Maths
  • Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills
  • Cognitive Processing Model for Speech
  • Supporting Multi-lingual Children
  • Play and SLC
  • Stuttering
  • Selective Mutism
  • Baby and Toddler Signing

£20 incl. VAT

13  CPD Hours

2020 Speech, Language and Communication Summit Certificate

  • Typical speech development
  • Environments for communication
  • Practice and Pedagogy
  • Child directed speech
  • Multilingual and dual language learners
  • Music and supporting speech development
  • Literacy, reading and writing progression
  • Makaton
  • Social communication disorders with autism
  • Selective mutism

£14.40 incl. VAT

14  CPD Hours

Literacies Early Years Summit Certificate

  • What type of ‘literacies' are there?
  • What do children need to know before phonics?
  • World of Words
  • Musical literacy
  • Mathematical understanding
  • Physical Literacy
  • Emotional and social literacies
  • Literacy, reading and writing progression
  • Early writing skills
  • Holistic links across all literacies

£14.40 incl. VAT

11 CPD Hours

Challenge and Risk in the Early Years Certificate

  • Encouraging risk taking in cognitive development
  • Supporting parents on the benefits of risky play
  • The 6 types of risky play
  • Seeing risk from the child's perspective
  • Introducing woodworking into an Early Years setting
  • Outdoor environments for exploration and discovery
  • Froebel's view on adventurous play
  • How to help staff implement good risky play activities safely
  • How leaders affect risk taking with their staff in the setting
  • Japanese Early Years settings and their attitudes to risk taking
  • Risky play in the Reggio Emilia environment and pedagogy
  • Benefit/risk assessment and play policies in Early Years settings

£14.40 incl. VAT

9 CPD Hours

 Practitioners Leading Practice Certificate

  • Playfulness and Learning
  • The Outstanding Childminders Environment
  • Practitioner Wellbeing
  • Supporting Practitioners in a setting
  • Safeguarding
  • Children's wellbeing
  • Outdoor Play and Learning
  • Outdoor Play in a Digital Age

£14.40 incl. VAT

10.5 CPD Hours

Children's Outdoor Play and Learning Certificate

  • Natural Playspaces and Sustainability
  • “Resource Free” Outdoor Play
  • Arts and Outdoor Play
  • Designing Play Spaces that Meet Children's Needs
  • Puddle Play, Mud Kitchens and Spirituality
  • Nature Pedagogy in the UK and around the world
  • Learning from outdoor expeditions
  • Practical Experiences from Timbernook and Cedarsong

£14.40 incl. VAT

9.5 CPD Hours

Physical Development Certificate

  • Children's Movement and Outdoor Provision
  • Outdoors and Nature Play
  • Early Childhood Reflexes and Physical Development
  • Healthy Postures for Children and Babies
  • Early Years Obesity and the Effects on Children's Development
  • Toddlers Moving and Learning
  • The Role of Music in Physical Development
  • The Practitioner's Role in Physical Development

£14.40 incl. VAT

10 CPD Hours

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How do I access the expert interviews?

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