Date: 13th June 2024
Time: 19:00 – 20:30 
Location: Online

Elaine McGreevy who will deliver a talk entitled How to create enabling communication environments for autistic children and young people

Elaine will cover:

  • An overview of autistic communication and autistic languaging
  • The role of the communication partner in enabling communication: considerations for supporting spoken and non-spoken communication
  • Practical strategies that we can use right away

Followed by a Q & A with the audience.

This talk is suitable for all to attend.

About Elaine McGreevy 
Elaine is a neurodivergent-affirming Speech and Language Therapist, specialising in supporting the communication needs of Autistic children and young people/young adults through her independent SLT practice. She also provides supervision, consultancy, and training for health and education professionals and voluntary organisations. Elaine is the Co-Founder of Divergent Perspectives, an online training platform providing training on neurodivergent-affirming support. Elaine is a trainer with the National Autism Trainer Programme for staff supporting Autistic children, young people and adults in mental health settings in NHS England.

A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, in 1996, Elaine worked in the NHS in Northern Ireland, until 2021, as clinical lead speech and language therapist in Child Development, Surestart, and Autism Services. She is passionate about supporting non-speaking and semi-speaking autistic children and young people. She believes that everyone who cannot rely on speech alone to be heard and understood should have access to robust Augmentative and Alternative Communication options without barriers.

The Centre for Autism Wellbeing Hub

The Wellbeing Hub is a new initiative, funded by University of Reading Alumni. The aim of the Hub is to bring together autistic people, their families, practitioners and researchers to co-produce and deliver neurodiversity-affirming activities that support autistic young people and their families to thrive and flourish.

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In the meantime, please email us if we can offer any further assistance: cfaevents@reading.ac.uk