First VOV Conference a Great Success!!!

Voices of the Voicless

‘Some Voices are ‘Harder to Hear’

‘Voices of the Voiceless’ project hosted a conference on Tuesday 12^th April 2011.

The Voices of the Voiceless project is a three year project, at People First, running

throughout North and West Cumbria. The project is aimed at improving the lives of,

and giving a voice to, people living in residential services. These are often people

that have been given multiple labels such as; ‘non-verbal’, ‘profound and multiple

disabilities’ ‘challenging behaviour’ and ‘complex needs’.

The conference day was packed full of wonderful speakers including Rachael

Monk, Jan Hawkins and Dr Liz Dean who all spoke about different forms of

communication and connection with individuals who communicate alternatively.

We also had some amazing workshops which included Lindsay Graham with ‘An

Introduction to Makaton’, Carol Allen with ‘Communication Technology’ and Jan

Hawkins with ‘Making a Psychological Connection’.

We would like to thank everyone for attending from far and wide and for all the

support for the project. The conference focused on the main areas that the Voices

of the Voicless project is working on so providing everyone with a lot of depth

and insight.

It was a great day.

Thank you all again and we look forward to seeing you at the next one.

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