Get ready for Communication Works South!
It’s just 1 week till our annual event Communication Works South – celebrating assistive technology in education!
Date: Thursday 6 June 2024
Time: 9.30am to 4.00pm (BST)
Venue:
Charlton Athletic Football Club,
North Stand,
The Valley, Floyd Road, London SE7 8B
Who should attend?
It will be a really informative and inspirational day for school and health SEND teams including teachers, SENCOs, teaching assistants, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, QTVIs, educational psychologists, parents and carers, children and young people.
Programme of seminars
We’ve got a fantastic day of seminars planned. This is a great opportunity for some of our CENMAC students to show our visitors the achievements they have made by demonstrating the technology alongside the CENMAC Advisory Team as well as product specialists from an array of amazing and innovative technology companies.
Communication Works 2024 Draft Seminar Programme
Who’s exhibiting?
We’ve got an amazing line up of digital technology companies who will be showcasing their latest products. Some of them are joining us for the first time this year including Aventido, Digit Learning, Glean, Stix Mindfulness, Nessy Learning, PODs and Smile Smart Technology.
We also have some international exhibitors who will be available to speak to you online. Visit them at display number 43 where one of the CENMAC team will assist you. Our international exhibitors include Arithmetype, Floreo, Jimple and Key2Enable.
> Find out more about the exhibitors and download the floor plan
MC for the day Student Ambassador Khamani has been finding out more about some of the exhibitors in a series of interviews including this one with Si Tew from Digit Learning.
MC Student Ambassador Khamani interview Si Tew from Digit Learning
Keynote speaker – Ellise Hayward
Our keynote speaker is a young woman called Ellise Hayward. Ellise has been incredibly busy recently with a cerebral palsy awareness film for Channel 4 and a presentation at the Houses of Parliament! Ellise said “I’m so delighted to be the keynote speaker at Communication Works, it’s a real honour to deliver a presentation on my communication journey and the challenges that I had to face living with cerebral palsy. I’m so looking forward to it.”
Ellise Hayward featured in a recent Channel 4 short film
Musician – Jess Fisher
At lunchtime, we will be treated to a music performance of a brand-new track by Jess Fisher. Jess Fisher was the first musician to use Control One an innovative MIDI controller based on the joystick of an electric wheelchair and allows physically disabled people to create music without having to learn an entirely new physical skill. It was developed through Able Orchestra project activity by lead artist Si Tew of Digit Music in response to the need for more flexible and sophisticated digital instruments for disabled musicians. It won the Accessibility Award in the 2019 Tech4Good Awards. Digit Learning will have a display at the event so you can try their technology for yourself!
It’s going to be a great day so don’t miss out!
Musician Jess Fisher
