Events

Previous ELCISS events. For the latest news, please visit the homepage.

October 2008 : ELCISS staff member raises £1340 for The Afasic Youth Project

Emma Dean completed the Amsterdam, October 2008 Marathon raising £1340 for 'The Afasic Youth Project'. She completed the marathon in 4 hours and 50 minutes, and really enjoyed it.

Afasic was founded in 1968 as a parent-led organisation to help children and young people with speech and language impairments and their families. We provide information and training for parents - and professionals - and produce a range of publications. Members meet in local groups in many areas of the UK. For more information and to make donations please visit the AFASIC website

July 2008 : ELCISS research features at the IASCL conference

Victoria, Emma and Eleni will be reporting some of the research findings from the ELCISS programme at the forthcoming congress of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL) in Edinburgh, UK in July 2008. For further information about the conference, see http://www.in-conference.org.uk/IASCL/

January 2008 : Hong Kong education visitors to ELCISS project

Three delegates from The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Education Bureau will be visiting Victoria Joffe and the ELCISS team at City University to find out more information about the ELCISS programme. They will be coming on the 23rd January until the 31st of January.

The main reason for their visit is to find out more details about the ‘Enhancing Language Research Project’ that we are running in secondary schools in Redbridge and Barking and Dagenham.

The three delegates consist of two speech and language therapists and one specialist teacher. They have a specific interest in exploring how we are running the project, our collaboration with the schools and the content of the assessment and intervention sessions.

They will be visiting the research team in the Department of Language and Communication Science at City University, as well as visiting some of the secondary schools in the boroughs that are participating in the project. They will look at the intervention materials, and observe the teaching assistants conducting the intervention. They will also be given the opportunity to talk with teachers, students and parents about the ELCISS programme.