National Association of Disability Practitioners
International Conference 2018:
Ensuring Quality Provision
Twitter Conference Feed: #NADPIC2018
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June 25th- June 27th 2018
Clayton Hotel and Conference Centre
626 Chiswick High Road,
London W4 5RY
Contents
Welcome to NADP International Conference 2018
Conference Information
NADP International Conference Programme 2018
Keynote Speakers
Whole Conference Speakers
Break-out Group Presenters
NADP Representatives at the Conference
Conference Helpers
Main Sponsors for NADP IC2018
Conference Delegates
Welcome to NADP International Conference 2018
I amthrilled to welcome all our delegates to the NADP International Conference2018. I'm really proud that over 200 delegates from across the world,have decided to come to this event. This year’s theme of ‘Ensuring Quality Provision’ in the field of disability support and inclusivity has clearly struck a chord with you all!
In the UK, particularly over the last few years, we have collectively experienced a pace of change that has increasedexponentially within the disability and inclusivity fields in which we practice. The demand for innovation in our workplaces has grown tremendously. My experience in talking with international colleagues, is that it is no different in other parts of the world. In response, we have had to become increasingly creative, responsive and flexible in our working practices both leading and influencing change. It is crucial that we have a strong focus on maintaining the quality of provision whilst in this constantly changing environment.
We believe that sharing our solutions to common concerns allows us opportunities to positively affect how quality principles are applied across the world.It is our hope that our theme this year will both inspire and enable people, to work together to discover inclusive support solutions that will enhance the student experience and our education communities.
We have brought together the people who deliver action on the ground –academics, disability support professionals, individual support personnel and needs assessors – to share their knowledge, ideas and experience. I'd like to express huge thanks on behalf of NADP to all our speakers for taking time out of their busy schedules to do this.
In particular, I'd like to thank our amazing Keynote speakers: Professor Sue Rigby, Vice-Chancellor at Bath Spa University;Dr Pauline Hanesworth, the Academic lead for Equality and Diversity and the Teaching Excellence Framework at the UK Higher Education Academy; and Dr Kimberley Coy, from California State University, Fresno. I know they will kick-start each day with fascinating and thought-provoking contributions and I for one am really excited to hear what they have to tell us. Indeed, throughout the Conference, I am so pleased to see such a huge range and variety of lectures and workshops covering topics from inclusion to ICT; from stammering to specific learning differences; from testing to coaching and mentoring; and from pets to policy,all brought to you from speakers in the UK and across the world.
But our Conferences provide even more than that! Year in, year out we receive feedback that one of the most valuable and appreciated parts of the Conference is the opportunity to network. Whether meeting old friends or making new contacts that will enable new initiatives or partnerships, we know how important this time is to you, so we have left plenty of space for that this year.
Finally, I couldn't write this without mentioning just once that this is my final year as Chair and I will be bidding farewell to the role at Conference. It has been such a privilege and I just wanted to take this opportunity to thank you all for your fantastic support over those 6 years. NADP is your professional association and your contributions and support for each other make it what it is today - thank you!
So, naturally, I'm hoping more than ever, that this will be a Conference to remember for all the right reasons. I sincerely hope that you leave this event encouraged and motivated by all that you have seen and heard over the three days, and with a big warm feeling inside to boot…I'm sure I will!
Best wishes
Paddy Turner, Chair of NADP
Conference Information
Should you need any help or information during the conference, NADP staff, helpers and Directors will be happy to answer your questions.
The venue has been notified of any dietary requirements specified on the booking forms, however, if the menu is unsuitable please speak to a member of the conference team or hotel catering staff. The gala dinner team are also aware of all dietary requirements, but we have chosen to have free seating so that people can sit with friends. Please ensure you speak to your personal table waiter to let them know of your requirements. We will also have cards available for you to put by your table setting.
Copies of the presentations (where these have been made available to us by the Speakers) have been posted on the member’s areaof our website. Non-members have been given access to this area for the week before and a month after the conference.
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NADP International Conference Programme 2018
Monday 25th June 2018Delegates should first register for the conference. The Registration desk will be open from 10.30am.
11.30 – 11:45 / Welcome and Introduction: Paddy Turner, Chair of NADP
11:45 – 12:30
Session 1 / Keynote: Professor Sue Rigby: Ensuring quality provision – a senior leadership perspective on inclusivity and disabled student support
12:30 – 13.30 / Lunch and Exhibitors
13.30 – 14:15
Session 2: Parallel Lectures (45 minutes) / G Hammer: Dialogical encounters in integrated dance education
I Newman & A Osborne: Diversity for everybody, achievement for all. Patterns not labels
A Heelan: Many Hats: the role of disability officer
B Lutchmiah & H Futter: Consent to share and disclosure. What does it mean?
A Adefila, D McColm & T Frankish: Supporting disabled students on a clinical placement: the development of a bespoke webApp for healthcare students
14:25 – 15:10
Session 3: Parallel Lectures (45 minutes) / V Van Hees: Towards inclusive education in post-secondary education in Flanders
N. Martin: Disabled leaders in Higher Education
S Charles: Key findings related to stakeholder attitudes towards those with dyslexia training to be teachers on initial teacher education programmes
H Cameron & P Rostant: Equality law obligations in Higher Education: reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 in Assessment of students with unseen disabilities
EA Draffan, A James & A McNaught: Achieving digital accessibility in Further and Higher Education
15:10 – 15:30 / Lunch and Exhibitors
15:30 – 16:15
Session 4
Whole Conference / C Nolan & D Treanor: Systems for Evaluating Disability Services and Evidence-based, research-informed practice
16:15 – 17:30
Session 5 / Student Panel: Quality provision from our point of view
Time for the Fitness Suite, a visit to Gunnersbury Park, a walk along the Thames or just a rest before the gala dinner. Meet in the Conference Bar from 6:30pm for a 7:30pm meal in the Chiswick Ballroom.
Registration from 10:00am (for those delegates who did not attend Monday).
10:25 – 10:30 / Welcome back: Paddy Turner, Chair of NADP
10:30 – 11:15
Session 6 / Keynote: Dr Pauline Hanesworth: Advancing equality, enhancing quality: a strategic approach to mainstreaming inclusive curricula
11:30 – 13:00
Session 7: Parallel Workshops
(90 minutes) / M Büscher & J Jansen: Sustaining proper policy about studying with a disability
J French & C Werrell: Mental Health Mentoring. Promoting independence or developing dependence?
J McKenzie & K Goodfellow: UWE Bristol and Zayed University (United Arab Emirates): A developing partnership exploring specific learning difficulties, inclusive practice and widening participation
Panel: J Hastwell, F Valentine & E Baird: Assistance Animals within the University
LINK meeting (LINK members only)
13:00 – 14:00 / Lunch and Exhibitors
11.15 – 11.45
Session 8 / Whole conference: L Kressin: Creating and implementing a pan-university accessibility-reporting system
14.55– 15:15 / Annual General Meeting
15:15 - 15:30 / Refreshments and Exhibitors
15.30 -16:30
Session 9:
Hot Topics / Topics will be available for sign-up on Tuesday morning
Rooms will be posted by lunchtime to allow us time to match numbers to rooms
16:45 – 17:30
Session 10:
Parallel Lectures
(45 mins) / A Phipps: Students with Specific Learning Difficulties and the cognitive processing of verbal analogies
C Norman: Universities STUC in their ways? Supporting students and staff who stammer
F Santulli & M Scagnelli: An inclusive training to enhance reading in adulthood: theory and empirical evidence
N Martin: Effective mentoring for Autistic students
K Knarlag & E Olaussen: Methods for ensuring quality in creating an inclusive learning environment
Sipsmiths Session - delegates who have booked please meet at 18:15 in the Conference Bar area for the 18:30 Cocktail session.
Wednesday 27th June 2018Registration from 10:00am (for those delegates who did not attend Monday or Tuesday).
10:25 – 10:30 / Welcome back: New Chair of NADP
10:30 – 11:15
Session 11
Keynote / Dr Kimberly Coy: Universal Design for Learning and Digital Environments: The Education Superpower. Please see the following resource:
11:30 – 13:00
Session 12: Parallel Workshops
(90 minutes) / Discussion Group: Making exclusivity the core of inclusivity in tertiary education – led by I Carter, S Hocking & P Turner
M Pimm & T Turner: Using coaching principles to enhance the student experience
B Denton & S Osman: Accessible IT: why we need it and how to get it
J Hosterman: Special testing arrangements: the use of extra time and what is reasonable
13:00 – 14:00 / Lunch and Exhibitors
14:00 – 14:45
Session 13 / Whole conference: D Brandt: Engage the student voice through a vibrant student disability organisation
14:55 - 15:40 / Refreshments and Exhibitors
14:55 – 15:40
Session 14:
Parallel Lectures
(45 mins) / E Welp-Park: Attitudes towards IDM at the programme leader level - results of an international survey
N Martin, EA Draffan, Abi James & M Wray: Implementing inclusive teaching and learning in UK-HE - utilising UDL
A Speller, K Balazs,TMcGraa & C Campbell: Joined-up working: a co-ordinated approach to student wellbeing
H Futter & B Lutchmiah: Forward thinking - a strengths-based approach aiding transition into Higher Education
A Hyland & A Choudhury: Cultural perceptions of disability and supporting international students through group workshops
15:40 - 15:55 / Refreshments and Exhibitors
16:00 – 16:45 / P Turner: Changing the Conversation: Quality, Culture and Confidence
Keynote Speakers
Professor Sue Rigbycommenced her role as Vice-Chancellor of Bath Spa University on the 22nd January 2018. Previously she was Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Student Development at the University of Lincoln where she was responsible for the student journey from application to alumni activities and had oversight of the Colleges of Science and Arts.
Sue is a palaeontologist by background. After being an academic at Cambridge, Leicester and Edinburgh she moved into senior management, first as Assistant Principal and then Vice Principal at the University of Edinburgh. She is an HEA Principal Fellow.
She is Chair of the HEFCE Learning Gain project, is chairing work on the design of a PGT national survey and is Chair of the Natural Sciences TEF Pilot Panel. Internationally, she has contributed to the development of reward and recognition processes for staff in learning and teaching through the U21 network and developed the first MOOC to be shared by students in the U21 Universities.
Dr Pauline Hanesworth is an Academic Lead at the Higher Education Academy (HEA). She joined the organisation in 2013 after working as a lecturer and programme lead in the higher education sector during which time she developed various learning and teaching, widening access, and recruitment and retention initiatives. At the HEA, Pauline leads on programmes of work related to equality and diversity and the teaching excellence framework.
In her equality and diversity role, she has supported a variety of institutions, faculties, schools, programmes, and individual academics to develop inclusive practice through coaching, strategic enhancement programmes, training programmes, change programmes, masterclasses and workshops. She has also produced a range of research and resources on inclusive practice, such as the embedding equality and diversity in the curriculum model for learning and teaching practitioners. In addition to embedding equality and diversity in practice and policies, Pauline is particularly interested in social justice approaches to education, the relationship between oral narratives and individual and collective identity, and values-based pedagogies.
Dr Kimberly Coy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Literacy, Early, Bilingual, and Special Education at California State University, Fresno. She concentrates on supporting future teachers in their quest to create inclusive educational settings. She believes that Professors and Instructors in Higher Education need to proactively model UDL in all educational domains including digital and online learning spaces.
Whole Conference Speakers
Clodagh Nolan PhD MSc Dip C.O.T. is an Assistant Professor in the Discipline of Occupational Therapy and Clinical Director of the Occupational Therapy Service within TCD, UCD and DIT Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, James St. Dublin 8.
Clodagh Nolan qualified in the early 80s and worked for a number of years in the area of Mental Health before joining the Discipline of Occupational Therapy at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. She has taught both at undergraduate and post graduate levels within the Discipline. She is the founder and Clinical Director of the Occupational Therapy Service for students with disabilities which originated in Trinity College and is now offered to three other universities within the Greater Dublin Region. Dr Nolan is a board member of the newly formed Occupational Therapists Registration Board in Ireland and sits upon the National Advisory Committee for DCD in Higher Education. She is a member of an international consortium researching in the areas of mental health and self-management, occupation, inclusion and disability within Higher Education.
Declan Treanor is the Director of Disability Service, Trinity College Dublin and Chair of DAWN (Disability Adviser Working Network - Ireland)
Declan has been working in Trinity since the Disability Service was set up in June 2000. He has responsibility for ensuring that Trinity embeds disability-related issues into the core of all thinking and delivery to ensure that the Trinity environment is as accessible to people with disabilities as possible. Declan has an extensive educational history which includes a BSc in Science for NUI Galway, a Masters in Social Policy and Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education, Trinity College Dublin. Declan is working on national policy and has published the reports on Reasonable Accommodations and Inclusive Teaching, Learning and Assessment and the Role of the Disability Officer and the Disability Service in Higher Education in Ireland - A Vision for Future Development. The former was launched in December 2017 and the latter in March 2018 and will assist all disability service staff in Ireland work in a more mainstreamed and inclusive setting.
Lori Kressin is in her fourth year as the Coordinator of Academic Accessibility, having served the University of Virginia for over 30 years. Prior to her current role, she held positions in the Department of Athletics, Information Technology and Communications, and most recently in Information Security and Records Management. Across these roles, her interest in accessibility of the digital environment was developed during her time as the Assistive Technology Lead while working in the IT unit.
Reporting under the Executive Vice President and Provost, her role is to assure the accessibility of the academic experience for all. Focusing on coordination of effort across the University, Lori relies on the connections she has made during her tenure to create key partnerships across departments to further accessibility efforts University wide.
She has presented at a variety of conferences and workshops, including the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. Ms. Kressin received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education from the University of Wisconsin – River Falls and a Master of Science in Education degree from James Madison University.
David L. Brandt has been involved with disability services for over 20 years. Currently, he is the Disability Service Coordinator for the University of Nebraska at Kearney. Formerly he was the National Sales Manager at Curtis and Associates where he was instrumental in hiring individuals with disabilities. His presentation is 15 years in the making. In 2005 he took on the responsibility as the adviser for the student organisation Collegians for the Integration and Accessibility (CIA). This group works to educate the community about disability issues faced on a daily basis. Student members learn the importance of speaking up and sharing their voice in order to make changes that will benefit all. This year, the organisation will be celebrating their 25th Anniversary. Over the years, many students have become leaders in their communities.
Paddy Turner(SFHEA) has worked at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) covering all aspects of disabled student support from direct student support to management and research. He has at all times retained a passion for improving access and inclusion to the academic and cultural environment. He was Head of Inclusive Practice (Disability) until 2011 and is now an Education Developer supporting academic staff towards HEA Fellowship and developing inclusive teaching and learning practice. Paddy helped form the first professional association for disability officers in 1999 and is the current chair of NADP engaging with Government, SLC and other sector stakeholder groups to influence decision-making and policy.