Our Early Bird ticket rates for members and non members will end on 21st April.
The 2021 NAPLIC conference will be held on 8th May online with a theme of “Language: The Bridge Across the Gap”.
A full list of conference speakers has been announced and conference programme for this fantastic event is available to view.
We are delighted to announce that booking is now open for our 2021 conference.
The 2021 NAPLIC conference will be held on 8th May online with a theme of “Language: The Bridge Across the Gap”.
Once again we have outstanding and inspiring speakers who will be sharing their knowledge about DLD and wider speech, language and communication needs.
The line up includes Professor Charles Hulme from Oxford University addressing interventions in Early Years, Professor Courtenay Norbury from UCL talking about Developmental Language Disorder across ages and Professors Kate Nation from Oxford and Neil Mercer from Cambridge outlining language and its impact on learning. And that is only the start!
A full list of conference speakers has been announced and conference programme has been released and it promises to be a fantastic event.
This array of speakers will have great appeal to all educational professionals including class teachers, SENCOs and Educational Psychologists, as well as specialist SLCN teachers and Speech and Language Therapists. It is online, so it is convenient. It is also very well priced. So please share details with multi-professional colleagues, and bring a friend.
We encourage you to book on our Early Bird rates.
Details of how to access the livestream conference won’t be available until Wednesday 18 March. If you haven’t received details by Thursday 19th march please email naplic.conference@gmail.com.
A full statement on the new conference details is available here
The 2020 NAPLIC conference will be held on Saturday 21st March in Sheffield with a theme of “Developmental Language Disorder: moving forward together”.
Once again we have outstanding and inspiring speakers who will be sharing their knowledge about DLD and wider speech, language and communication needs.
A full list of conference speakers has been announced and conference programme has been released and it promises to be a fantastic event.
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) is a relatively new term, but it is very common with approximately two students in every mainstream classroom presenting with this condition. Most simply, DLD is trouble with understanding and / or talking. Recently the NAPLIC annual conference was held with the theme of ‘Growing Up with Developmental Language Disorder.’ The idea was to explore how DLD changes and how we can provide support at different stages from early years, through primary and secondary education into young adulthood.
The day was opened by Juliet Wright, a young person with DLD, who very powerfully expressed the experience of being a young person with DLD. Her top tips included:
Juliet struggles with language, but her needs have been identified and supported. Many others are not identified. Maxine Winstanley from University of Manchester found in her research that 50% of first-time young offenders had previously unidentified DLD. This contrasted with young adults with identified DLD who had been well supported in school. They were less likely to exhibit risky behaviour or be in contact with the police than their peers. Take home message: young people with unidentified needs are at far more risk
Anna Sowerbutts and Amanda Finer from Hackney outlined their programme, ‘DLD and Me’ to support children and young people understand their DLD diagnosis. The impact on students’ self-awareness has been transformative. We look forward to this being published later in the year.
Melanie Rudkins and Marie Newton work together in the multi-disciplinary support service in Brighton and Hove. Their theme was collaboration: amongst professionals, but importantly with schools and families. Something that we at NAPLIC fully endorse.
Support for students with DLD in secondary has often been a challenge, but Billie Lowe from City, University of London showed that a one hour INSET with secondary teachers can have a positive impact on how they teach vocabulary.
Data from a number of longitudinal studies was synthesised by Cristina McKean from Newcastle University into simple messages. Language needs that are identified at 4 years of age are very likely to persist, so intervention needs to start then. There is a small group of children (about 4%) who emerge after 4 years of age.
The day ended with a focus on Early Years and the big surprise came from Danielle Matthews at University of Sheffield who showed that whilst encouraging parents to respond to young babies’ communication (‘contingent talk’) had a positive effect, the same was not true for shared book reading. Deborah Powers from the ‘Time to Talk’ initiative in Warwickshire outlined how her innovative service support Early Years settings to provide quality support. Training had a great impact on staff and on the children they worked with.
NAPLIC is the national organisation for professionals who work with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN), and in particular Developmental Language Disorder. We are a committed bunch of volunteers who have been running for 35 years. Because we are volunteer run, we are able to be very cost-effective, with membership from £20 per year and conference from £99. Join us and support a better future for children and young people with DLD. To learn more about Developmental Language Disorder go to www.naplic.org.uk.
Stephen Parsons
Chair, NAPLIC
The 2019 conference theme ‘Growing up with Developmental Language Disorder’ was a huge success.
The day was opened by Juliet Wright, a young person with DLD, who very powerfully expressed the experience of being a young person with DLD.
The other speakers were a combination of research and practice looking at the pathway of DLD in terms of its presentation, services and interventions.
Key learning points included:
We are delighted to announce that we have extended the Early Bird rates for NAPLIC’s 2019 Conference: “Growing up with DLD”to 15 February 2019.
Hurry – conference places are selling out fast!
To find out more about the conference, view the full range of conference speakers and read our conference programme.
The exhibitor list is now available for NAPLIC’s annual conference, due to take place on 11th May 2019 at Aston University, Birmingham.
Companies currently exhibiting:
There’s still time to purchase conference places at the Early Bird rates, which are available up until 31st January 2019.
NAPLIC’s 2019 Conference, “Growing up with DLD”, will take place on 11th May 2019 at Aston University in Birmingham.
The conference programme has now been announced which can be viewed online. Speakers include Amanda Finer, Billie Lowe, Danielle Matthews, Cristina McKean, Marie Newton, Deborah Powers, Melanie Rudkin, Anna Sowerbutts and Maxine Winstanley.
The programme covers a wide range of topics related to DLD and promises to be another brilliant day.
Online booking starts at just £99 for a member early bird rate and £160 for non-members booking on the early bird rate.
The 2019 NAPLIC conference will be entitled “Growing up with DLD” and will take place on 11th May 2019 at the Conference Aston Meeting Suites, Aston University, Birmingham.
We are excited to announce the first conference speakers at our NAPLIC 2019 conference who include Danielle Matthews, Cristina McKean and Maxine Winstanley.
You can now register your interest to be notified when booking is open.
Early bird ticket prices for the 2021 NAPLIC conference end on 21st April
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Early Bird tickets end 21st April
Once again we have outstanding and inspiring speakers who will be sharing their knowledge about DLD and wider speech, language and communication needs.
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