Wednesday, October 1
09.00–10.00 | Registration – Exhibition (manufacturers and posters) – Coffee/tea and sandwiches. |
10.00–10.15 | Introduction |
10.15–11.15 | Access to education in the world. Hans Rosling, professor, Stockholm |
11.20–12.00 | Boss-your-brain strategies that enhance learning in children with hearing loss. Amy McConkey Robbins, Cert. AVT and speech pathologist, USA |
12.00–14.00 | Lunch – Exhibition and Posters |
14.00–14.45 | Developing counselling skills to support families to early diagnosed children, what is needed? Suzanne Harrigan, speech pathologist, The Ear Foundation, UK |
14.45–15.15 | Coping (not hoping) to succeed in the regular education classroom. Strategies a child needs to have in order to manage in the mainstream and ways we can help facilitate those skills. Pamela Talbot, Speech and Language Pathologist, New York, USA |
15.15–16.15 | Coffee break |
16.15–16.45 | Helping versus. Enabling: a fine line with a huge impact Often the things we do intending to help a child can prevent them from developing important self learning skills. Common traps will be discussed. Pamela Talbot, Speech and Language Pathologist, New York, USA |
16.45–19.00 | Mingle buffet – Exhibition and poster. |