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‘Positively Supporting Individual Development through addressing
Communication and Sensory Needs’
Conference Programme
Wednesday 19th October 2016
9.30am – 5.00pm
9.30am Registration & Coffee (Please sign up for workshops)
9.40am Welcome – Loddon Training & Consultancy
9.50am Dr Olga Bogdashina – Programme Leader (Autism courses), Chief Research Fellow and Lecturer
at the International Autism Institute
Autism: What works in sensory processing?
10.50am Refreshment Break
11.05am Jenny Steeples, Parent Carer RGN SCM
“Claire’s Care Claire’s Way
11.35am Margo Mackay – Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and Talking Mats Associate
Talking Mats – a tool to support communication
12.35pm Lunch
1.20pm The Loddon School
The PLLUSS Curriculum – taking learning to the learner
1.50pm Larysa Khmurych – PBS Co-ordinator
C-Sensory: What makes people feel like they do?
2.15pm Victoria Banda and Dorothy Chilestie – UTH Special School Lusaka, Zambia
Introducing the Loddon Approach in Zambia
2.45pm Workshops
1- Dr Olga Bogdashina – Programme Leader (Autism courses), Chief Research Fellow and
Lecturer at the International Autism Institute
Communication in Autism: Do we speak the same language?
2- Jenny Steeples, Parent Carer RGN SCM
“Claire’s Care Claire’s Way’ A Personal Budget
3- Margo Mackay – Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and Talking Mats Associate
Using Talking Mats to support Wellbeing
4- The Loddon School
‘Learning in a box’ - learning through an integrated approach
3.45pm Break
4.00pm Workshops – As Above
5.00pm Close
7.00pm Dinner & Award Ceremony
Positively Supporting Individual Development

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‘Positively Supporting Individual Development through addressing
Communication and Sensory Needs’
Conference Programme
Thursday 20th October 2016
9.30am – 4.30pm
9.30am Registration & Coffee
9.40am Colin Troy – Educational Consultant, B.Ed, SCCE
“The Link between Sensory Integration Difficulties and Distressed Behaviour”
10.40am Refreshment Break
10.55am Flo Longhorn, Consultant in special multisensory education
Sensing the world around
11.55am Paul Issacs, Speaker, Trainer, Author & Consultant on the Autism Spectrum
Sensory Integration, Sensory Perception & Language Processing
12.40pm Lunch
1.25 pm Workshops
1- Paul Issacs, Speaker, Trainer, Author & Consultant on the Autism Spectrum
Autism, Sensory Integration, Sensory Perception & Language Processing
2 - Colin Troy – Educational Consultant, B.Ed, SCCE
“Providing Sensory Activities to help relieve distressed behaviour”
3- Flo Longhorn, Consultant in special multisensory education
A Dip into the Multisensory Literacy
4- Joanne Young, Specialist Trainer - Loddon Training & Consultancy & Lucy
Simone, Learning & Development Manager – Thera
Leaders by Experience
2.25pm Break
2.40pm Workshops – As Above
3:40pm Michelle Collard, Loddon Training & Consultancy, Specialist Trainer / Research Associate
Update on Research – The Effectiveness of PROACT-SCIPr-UK®
Training & Dissemination
4.00pm Open Forum
4.10pm Closing Remarks
Programme content may be subject to change
Positively Supporting Individual Development