The 2022 Speech, Language and Communication Early Years Summit is Now Over
Leading International Speakers · Watch FREE online for a full 7 Days from your own home
Monday 30th May – Sunday 5th Monday 6th June
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The original Early Years Summit · With the best line up of speakers and the most FREE content available for the longest time of any summit!
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Featured Speakers
Julia Donaldson
How acting out or reading plays improves children’s reading. How reading plays helps children understand other points of view. The value of repeating text to give children confidence
Julia Donaldson CBE
How Plays can Support Language Development
Professor Sam Wass
How natural rhythms of language affect how a child's brain processes information. The ways that different parts of children’s brains mature in different ways. Why you should be patient with children especially with speech and language.
Professor Sam Wass
The Neuroscience of Language Development
Ben Faulks (aka Mr Bloom)
Why finding the story telling medium you are comfortable with will lead to success. Where to find inspiration for your own stories. The value of a multimedia experience.
Ben Faulks (aka Mr Bloom)
Story Telling Secrets
Dr Lucretia Berry
How to give children the language and the framework to honour value and respect differences. How to have age-appropriate conversations with children. Why our own education is also important.
Dr Lucretia Berry
The Hues of You: Giving Children the Language to Discuss Difference
Dana Kabaila
Why it is so important that people in the caring professions should practice radical self-care. The role that Nature can play in restorative practice. How a mentor can help support you.
Dana Kabaila
Restorative Practice for Early Years staff
Ms Ashley Jefferson
How storytelling from other cultures can teach children so much. How to tell stories for emotional connection. The story behind the Nguzo babies.
Ms Ashley Jefferson
The Lost Art of Storytelling
Dr Pam Enderby OBE
What are important criteria when considering assessment of interventions. About the Therapy Outcome Measure (TOM). How the TOM has evolved and can be used in practice.
Dr Pam Enderby OBE
Measuring Outcomes of Language Intervention
Caroline England
What the Featherbed Tale books are. How these can help children to engage in reading. How to use the books to support parents who may have low literacy levels.
Caroline England
The Spoken Voice
Dr Holly Storkel
An analysis of Developmental Language Disorder or DLD. How this could affect children in very different ways. The effect of DLD on multilingual children.
Dr Holly Storkel
Developmental Language Disorder
Indigo Young
The difference between linguistic diversity dialect and heritage language. How heritage language can have a complicated relationship. How to honour our own linguistic diversity.
Indigo Young
Linguistic Diversity, Dialect and Heritage Language
John Doleman and Fran Beard
The differences between a traditional multidisciplinary model, an interdisciplinary model and a transdisciplinary approach. The benefits of a transdisciplinary approach. Some of the challenges to transdisciplinary working.
John Doleman & Fran Beard
Multiagency Working to Support Speech and Language
Judith Torres
The interconnection between speech, language, vocabulary and communication. The ways reading together can help children. Strategies for improving phonological awareness and communication.
Judith Torres
The Links between Picture Books, Language and Literacy
Karen Wilding
Why it is vital to initially get children to tell us what it is they're thinking. The importance of listening to children. How to capture children’s thinking.
Karen Wilding
The Language of Maths in the Early Years
Dr Lynn Williams
What a speech sound disorder is and how this can affect children. The importance of the age 18 to 36 months. Why it is vital that we note WHAT words children are saying, not just the number.
Dr Lynn Williams
PEEPS: Profiles of Early Expressive Phonological Skills
Tera Sumpter
About the cognitive processing model that Tera has developed. The role that neuroplasticity play in speech, language and communication. Some strategies to help children with their executive functioning.
Tera Sumpter
A Cognitive Processing Model for Speech, Language, Literacy & Executive Functioning
Sheona Gilmour
How to tap into children’s intrinsic motivation to teach them English. What resources are useful to have when supporting multilingual children. How being multilingual can help children understand the world.
Sheona Gilmour
Strategies for Supporting Multi-lingual Children
Georgina Durrant
Georgina’s top 10 play activities for children. How these activities support speech, language and communication. How to weave speech, language and communication into fun play-based activities.
Georgina Durrant
Play and Speech, Language and Communication
Kristine Short
What a stutter actually is. About the National Stuttering Association, based in New York. Common myths about people who stutter, which are just not true.
Kristine Short
Supporting Children who Stutter
Lucy Nathanson
What selective mutism is. Some of the myths about selective mutism. Strategies and a plan of action if you are concerned about a child.
Lucy Nathanson
Selective Mutism – Myths and Strategies
Jennifer Ellison
About Makaton, what it includes and aims How Makaton helps to build language, communication, pre-reading and writing skills. How to sign some of the most useful signs.
Jennifer Ellison
Baby and Toddler Signing
Tessa Weadman
How shared book reading differs to just reading a book to a child. About the Emergent Literacy and Language Early Childhood Checklist for Teachers. How to use a shared book reading approach to promotes children's engagement.
Tessa Weadman
Shared Book Reading
Leanne Jefferson
How Camembear, the French teddy bear, was designed and developed. How to introduce French words into your setting. How to embed the language learning.
Leanne Jefferson
Learning another Language – with Camembear
Dr Cindy Hovington
What we mean by ‘scaffolding’ and the different levels. Some top activities for scaffolding language. How to build children’s own motivation.
Dr Cindy Hovington
Scaffolding Language during Play
Emma Tunnicliffe
The meaning of ‘Developmental Language Disorder’ or DLD. The behaviours you may see to help you identify children with DLD. Three strategies when you are working with children with DLD.
Emma Tunnicliffe
Developmental Language Disorder
Each day's videos are released at 9am in the morning and you can watch them from the moment they're released until the end of the summit at midnight (UK time) on Sunday 4th June.
No restrictions, no fixed times to watch you have to fit your day around. Watch them when you want at your convenience.
Why Should I Join The Early Years Summit?
Incredible Value – The summit is entirely FREE during the whole summit week, with hours of amazing expert interviews. Every purchase also gets access to our interactive workbook, created to help you achieve your learning outcomes – and you can also buy the transcripts of each interview and a professional development certificate.
Any recording purchase gives you Lifetime access so have the information at your fingertips when YOU need it the most
The summit is 100% Online – so you can attend in the comfort of your own home, or even the bath! Watch the videos at your convenience at any time during the summit week. As soon as each day's videos are released at 9am you can watch them from then to the end of the summit on Sunday.
Listen to international speakers that are experts in their field from around the world. The summit gives you a once in a lifetime collection of speakers, from around the world, all in one place. You can watch whenever you're ready each day, no matter where in the world you are!
Get Amazing Insights from Featured Speakers, Experts in the Field of Speech, Language, Communication and Much More
The Speech, Language and Communication Summit brings together a brand new collection of leading speakers and thought provoking topics from around the world.
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Here's What People Are Saying…
“In her Early Years Summits, Kathy Brodie captures the best of current thinking, practice and research from those who not only have something important to contribute to our professional development but also demonstrate a passion to see children's lives improved. I have gained in my knowledge and outlook from every single item I have watched.”
David Wright
Owner, Paint Pots Nurseries
“Another fabulously informative summit. You really have given us a broad overview with some staggeringly amazing tips and underpinning nuggets on how best to work with our children once we go back into the nursery. Language and communication is obviously going to be so vital in this work.”
Bridget Thomson
“I love the Early Years Summit and still follow and interact with some of the speakers from it. I look forward to it every year and recommend it to lots of people 🥰 “
Katie Richardson Beavis
Summit Attendee
“This will be my third summit. I have learnt so much from the talks and it has had a big impact on the children I teach and the support that I can offer parents 🌟”
Sophie MacInnes
Summit Attendee
This Is What Last Year's Attendees Said…
“This whole summit and videos are absolutely amazing!! I love Speech & Language… I’ve had years of working in EYFS and worked closely with SLT services, so as you can imagine, this is music to my ears. I have two huge note books which I am using to make notes in as well as adding all the website info so I can research later on. I am always a sceptical about ‘free’ things but this has been an absolute revelation. Amazing! Thank you so very much for making this available in this way. I am thrilled with all the content and the amount of knowledge I have gained just through this week!!”
Allison Ellis
Summit Attendee
“Just want to give you a big shout out for your fantastic hard work to bring such experienced professionals to brush up our knowledge to help us to recognise the work we are doing with the children and how we can improve it further to support the well-being of the children in our care.
I bought the recordings and I’m throughly enjoying every second of listening to all these lovely people. Best summit ever!! Thank god I didn’t miss out on it. Keep up with the good work!!”
Anjal Ahluwalia
Summit Attendee
“I’ve listened to some of the speakers, and was very impressed. Thank you for providing such a wide range of insight into the field of language acquisition in young children. A lot of the ideas and practices described build on years of amazing work by early years educators. For years I worked as a nursery teacher with children and families for whom English was an additional language. This summit is invaluable as a learning resource for all: parents, careers and early years professionals.”
Ann Fitton
Summit Attendee
“As a final year speech and language therapy student I am currently working my way through all the fantastic interviews from the Early Years Summit. There is such a wealth of knowledge and expertise available so I wanted to thank you for putting it all together. The Summit has been very useful just before I begin my role as a newly qualified paediatric Speech and Language Therapist.”
Melissa
Summit Attendee
Kathy Brodie
Your host for the Summit is well known Early Years author and expert, Kathy Brodie.
She’s the author of multiple books on Early Years childcare and is the founder and organiser of the Early Years Summit and Early Years TV – the leading free online CPD resources for Early Years Practitioners and Educators globally.
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No matter what stage you're at in your teaching career, Bloomsbury Education has the books for you! Our best-selling authors include Molly Potter and Alistair Bryce-Clegg (@ABCDoes), and our 50 Fantastic Ideas series is well-loved by teachers.
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Plus you get a free Professional Development Certificate for every interview you watch covering the topic and the length of time of the training. Over a year that can add up to over 25 hours of certified professional development!
With Early Years TV Premium you get access to all our amazing interviews with the very best Early Years experts – current, past and future – for as long as you remain a member.
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Frequently Asked Questions
First, you need to register for the summit using any of the free registration buttons or forms.
After registration you'll be sent a link to the summit live page which you can use when the summit starts on Monday May 30th.
We'll also send you an email every day during the summit with details of that day's featured videos. The link will remain the same each day so you can bookmark it and come back whenever you want during summit week.
The summit interviews can be viewed on any modern computer, tablet or phone.
The main requirement is that you have a fast enough internet connection for the videos to play. If you can watch youtube videos from your device then you should be fine to watch the summit videos too (and they'll be much more useful for you!)
If you buy the recordings you'll get lifetime access to watch the videos and will also be able to download them. You'll need a computer with enough hard disk space if you want to download the videos.
The videos will be live on the site to watch for free until the end of the summit on Sunday June 5th 2022.
If you want to watch the interviews after then you'll need to buy the recordings which will give you lifetime access.
We encourage you to share details of the summit with your friends and colleagues so they can register to get access themselves.
We do ask, however, that you don't share copies of the recordings you buy. Payment entitles you to a copy of the recordings for use by one person only. If you are found in violation of this in any way (including, but not restricted to, intranet) your access to the videos will be terminated immediately, without notice and without refund.
If your colleagues or friends would like a copy of the recordings they'll need to buy themselves. We've made the price of the recordings low so that hopefully everyone can afford to get a copy.
Please remember, the Early Years Summit is almost entirely funded by purchases of the recordings. If people share the recordings instead of purchasing them then the summit won't be able to continue.
Just email us at support@kathybrodie.com and we'll get back to you straight away to fix your problem.
Get the summit recordings to keep and watch forever. Prices start at just £37.50 (approx $47 USD, $65 AUD)