Conference on Speech Language and Communication Needs in older children and young people

[Gary Morgan]

Lost for Words: Lost for Life

A conference on Speech Language and Communication Needs in older
children and young people



15-17 June 2011

City University London, England.



Second Call for Papers and Posters



The conference “Lost for Words: Lost for Life. A conference on Speech,
Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) in older children and young
people” is being hosted jointly by City University, I CAN and Afasic.
It is an applied research and practice conference. The conference
committee invites papers, symposiums, workshop and poster
presentations from all people involved with older children and young
adults with SLCN including speech and language therapists, teachers,
teaching assistants, psychologists, linguistics, academics, young
people with SLCN, parents, youth workers and others working in this
field.



Proposals are invited for presentations and posters related to the
speech, language and communication and social, emotional and
behavioural functioning of older children and young adults with
speech, language and communication needs (SLCN).



Proposals will be considered on any aspect of the themes listed below:



Speech, language and communication abilities
Metalinguistic skills and literacy
Identification and assessment
Intervention
Issues around Education
Social and emotional functioning
Behaviour
School-based speech and language therapy intervention
Collaboration between teachers and therapists
Wider inter-professional collaborations
Impact of SLCN: user views
Impact of SLCN: family views
Working with parents and families
Longitudinal implications of SLCN
Successful transitions: primary to secondary school and post school
Employment
Adults with SLCN
Working in pupil referral units
Working with young offenders with SLCN
Examples of good practice from teachers and other professionals
working with older children and young people with SLCN


Keynote Speakers:



q     Dr Nicola Botting, City University London

q     Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, Institute of Cognitive
Neuroscience, University College, London. “The adolescent brain”

q     Professor Susan Gathercole, University of York

q     Dr Victoria Joffe, City University London

q     Professor Maggie Snowling, The University of York, UK

q     Poster Symposium led by Professor Jane Marshall, City University
London

Presentation format



Proposals should indicate whether a workshop, a symposium, an oral
presentation or poster is preferred. The programme committee views all
formats as having equal value but reserves the right to switch formats
to suit the programme. Presenters will be notified about the final
format of their presentation at the time their proposal is
accepted. .All proposals will be blindly reviewed by members of the
organising committee.



Workshops. There will be 2 types of workshops: 1-hour workshops, 11/2-
hour and 2-hour workshops. Workshops should include some audience
participation. Please state your preference when applying.
Symposium. Each symposium will last for 90 minutes and should have a
convenor who sets up and organises the symposium, and a chair who
introduces the speakers and draws the symposium together on the day.
The convenor and chair can be the same person. Each symposium should
focus on a specific area and should include at least three different
presentations.
Oral presentations. Oral presentations will last 20 mins, plus 10 mins
for discussion
Posters may be viewed all day, with authors available at a certain
time on each day for discussion with delegates. There will be poster
presentations on the 16th and 17th of June.  A poster symposium on the
17th of June will provide further opportunity for discussion
specifically around the posters.


Proposal format



Proposals must be written in English and include the following:



Cover Page

Title of presentation
Authors’ names and affiliations
Name, address, telephone number and email address of contact person
Preferred presentation format (workshop [stipulating length],
symposium, oral presentation or poster). For a symposium, one proposal
will be accepted by the convenor, on behalf of all other named
participants


Abstract

Title of presentation
Summary of work undertaken (300 words maximum, single spaced). For
symposium, abstract to be no longer than 500 words and to include
summary of all talks making up symposium
Do not include authors’ names
The abstract should include: !) Background to the work (rationale); 2)
outline of the work (method); 3) Outcomes and evaluation; and 4)
Practical implications.


Submitting proposals



Proposals must be composed in Word format with paper size set to A4
and submitted as an attachment to an email (not as part of the mail
body of the email) to: email) to: SLCNconf at city.ac.uk.



For further information, contact Victoria Joffe at v.joffe at city.ac.uk
or Lucy Dipper at l.t.dipper at city.ac.uk



Closing date for submissions is 31st December 2010.

Authors will be notified as to whether their abstract has been
accepted by 31st of January 2011.

Registration will open on the 15th of February 2011.

Full conference registration fee is at the highly subsidised rate of
£50.



For further details about the conference, please go to
http://www.city.ac.uk/lcs/SLCN_Conf2011.html

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