Therapy Ideas Live Lightning Talks: "Enlighten Us, But Make it Quick!"
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Join us for a fun and inspiring evening of lightning talks, where each speaker presents for only 5 minutes, using 20 slides which advance automatically every 15 seconds. It’s a great format for covering a wide range of topics in a single event, and it's inclusive because anyone can give a lightning talk. Even you!
Meet the Speakers
Here's a taster of some of our amazing lightning talk presenters.
Carolyn Cheasman: The Mindful Therapist
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Carolyn will introduce the concept of mindfulness and discuss its relevance to us, as SLTs. Carolyn has worked as an SLT since 1979, she is part of the team at City Lit and has a particular interest in interiorised stammering.
Suzanne Beeke: The Better Conversations Project, Aphasia and Beyond
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Suzanne will introduce you to the Better Conversations with Aphasia website, a free online resource to improve access to conversation therapy for SLTs, people with aphasia and their families, currently being developed at UCL in partnership with Connect. Suzanne is an SLT and senior lecturer at UCL who investigates the mechanics of conversation for people with aphasia, and uses this knowledge to develop conversation-based therapies.
Izy Utley: What can Children and Adult services for people with Learning Disabilities learn from each other?
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Izy is a specialist paediatric SLT who recently spent time working in an adult education college for learners with learning disabilities. She will reflect on what adult and children’s services can learn from each other and discuss how these ideas could change clinical practice.
Steven Bloch: Developing new best practice guidelines for professionals
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Steven will be talking about developing best practice guidelines for non-specialist professionals when we don’t have published clinical evidence and have limited resources. He will cover building the right team, finding the right partners and maximising accessibility. Steven is a Researcher and SLT in the Language and Communication department at UCL.
Laura Edwards: A little advice for you ...
We give people advice all the time, but does it work? Laura will be highlighting some research on the topic and looking into solutions to the age-old problem. Laura has been working as an SLT with pre-school children in East London for 10 years.
Abi Roper: Service User Involvement: from participation to collaboration
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Abi is an SLT and a Researcher. She is currently studying for a PhD investigating GeST – a novel computer gesture therapy for people with aphasia. She’ll talk about her experience of working within a participatory design model which inspired her to shift her role from care provider to collaborator. She’ll discuss this shift and reflect on its implications for the SLT clinician and SLT Researcher.
We will be announcing more exciting speakers soon!
Schedule
6pm: Arrive, chat with fellow SLTs 6:30pm: Lighting talks start (first half) 7:10pm: Break 7:30pm: Lightning talks start (second half) 8:10pm: Lightning talks end 8:15pm: Informal networking. Stick around to meet the speakers and chat to your fellow SLTs
Our venue: Google Campus
We're delighted to be returning to Campus, Google’s revolutionary co-working space in Shoreditch (http://www.campuslondon.com/), with seven floors of flexible working space, dedicated event spaces, high speed WiFi—and good coffee!
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