The Link Live SLCN Conference - Knowsley
Knowsley LA have invited you to attend The Link Conference at 9am on Thursday 30th March
Welcome to The Link Conference.
The day has been co-produced by Speech and Language Link to coordinate both pre-recorded and live sessions delivered by specialists in their fields, focussing on speech, language and communication needs.
Conference Details: 9am-4pm
The Venue: The Village Hotel, Fallows Way, Whiston, Prescot, L35 1RZ
Parking is available at the hotel.
For parking charges and more information visit The Village Hotel website.
Programme
9:00 Knowsley LA and Speech and Language Link welcome delegates
9:15 
Michael Rosen, author and poet PRE-RECORDED SESSION Presentation topic: Vocabulary to Inspire a Love of Language
Download Michael’s PowerPoint slides here.
10:15 Morning refreshment break
10:30 
Baasit Siddiqui, Director of Siddiqui Education PRE-RECORDED SESSION Presentation topic: Digital Story Tellers
Download Baasit’s PowerPoint slides here.
11:30 Break
11:45 
Kate Freeman, Consultant - speech and language in education LIVE SESSION Presenation topic:
Download Kate’s PowerPoint slides here.
12:45 Lunch break
13:30 Delegates to split into three groups for EYFS, Primary and Secondary PRE-RECORDED concurrent sessions
EYFS - Dr Samantha Weld-Blundell, child psychologist PRE-RECORDED SESSION Presentation topic:Communication and interaction in the Under 5s
Download Samantha’s PowerPoint slides here.
Primary - Kim Griffin, occupational therapist PRE-RECORDED SESSION Presentation topic: Walk and Talk
Download Kim’s PowerPoint slides here.
Secondary - Juliet Leonard, speech and language therapist PRE-RECORDED SESSION Presentation topic: Motivating Tweens and Teens
Download Juliet’s PowerPoint slides here.
14:30 Break
14:45 
Knowsley LA LIVE SESSION Presentation topic: Strategy, data and insights
Download Knowsley LA’s PowerPoint slides here
15:45 Conference finishes
Downloadable Presentation PowerPoint Slides
Certificate of attendance
Speech and Language Link
The Speech and Language Link whole school approach includes assessment, intervention and training, developed by therapists and delivered by schools to support children with SLCN from year R to year 9. You can find out more about our speech and langauge packages at speechandlanguage.info
For the past 10 years we have been publishing The Link magazine which is distributed for FREE to every primary school in the UK. We collabroated with many professionals who have an interest and knowledge in SLCN so in 2021 we launched The Link Live, an online conference for schools focussing on SLCN, where we were able to welcome some of our fantastic contributors to the stage to present their experience and knowlege.
We are so pleased to have been invited by Knowsley LA to coordinate the content for your conference. We look forward to offering a mix of pre-recorded content from previous Link Live conferences along with a couple of live sessions and live Q&As throughout the day.
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