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A Fantastic Day at The Link Live 2024!

The Link Live 2024 brought together over 300 delegates from primary and secondary schools for a day of inspiring presentations from expert speakers. Attendees also had the opportunity to share best practices and network with fellow professionals.

Missed a session? Presentations from the event will be released monthly for Link Community members.

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Presentations currently available:

Gary Aubin – Maximising your impact as a SENCo (released November 2024)
Jean Gross – Reaching the unseen children: language issues for disadvantaged pupils (released December 2024)
Kylie Rio-Wood – Embedding a whole school approach to SLCN (released January 2025)
Alison Fowle & Juliet Leonard – Rhythm & Rhyme Time in the pre-school years (released February 2025)

Coming soon…

Sara Alston – Effectively supporting your TAs (Primary)
Samantha Garner – SEMH and the links to language and communication difficulties (Secondary)
Samantha Gamblen – The impact of SLCN on young people in the youth justice system (Secondary)
Ioan Berry & Family – DLD and the impact on a whole family

Kate Freeman

Host of The Link Live

Consultant - Speech and Language in Education

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Gary Aubin

Author, Teacher, SENCo, Director of SENDMattersUK

Session Title - Maximising your impact as a SENCo

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Jean Gross

Former Government Communication Champion for Children

Session Title - Reaching the unseen children: language issues for disadvantaged pupils

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Kylie Rio-Wood

Lead Speech and Language Therapist and Trust Lead for Speech and Language

Session Title - Embedding a whole school approach to SLCN

Watch Kylie's Presentation

Alison Fowle and Juliet Leonard

Specialist Speech and Language Therapists

Session Title - Embedding a whole school approach to SLCN (Primary)

Watch Alison and Juliet's Presentation

Sara Alston

SEND & Safeguarding Consultant & Trainer. Part-time SENCo and Author

Session Title - Effectively supporting your TAs (Primary)

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Samantha Garner

Mental Health and Inclusion Consultant

Session Title - SEMH and the links to language and communication difficulties (Secondary)

Samantha Gamblen

Trauma Informed Speech Therapy and Supervision

Session Title - The impact of SLCN on young people in the youth justice system (Secondary)

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Ioan Berry and Family

Ioan was diagnosed with specific language impairment, now developmental language disorder (DLD), at the age of five.

Session Title - DLD and the impact on a whole family

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