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The Tes SEND Show offers CPD-certified seminars from expert leaders in SEND education that are designed to inspire, inform, and equip you with the skills you need to thrive. 

The SEND Leadership Summit is returning for the fifth year, and in partnership with ASCL. The Summit is an exclusive one-day conference within the main Tes SEND Show and provides an opportunity for education leaders to learn alongside peers and thought leaders within the sector. More information on the SEND Leadership Summit can be found here. 

 

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  1. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This presentation explores how neuroscience and relational approaches can be integrated to support children affected by trauma and mental health challenges. Drawing on current research and practical e ...
  2. 60 mins
    • Communication and interaction
    • SEMH
    This seminar explores how to build trusting, meaningful relationships with young people with learning disabilities and/or autism who do not use speech. Despite knowing that the importance of connectio ...
  3. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    Exploring the evidence underpinning whole school approaches to SEND and school improvement, including how to evaluate their effectiveness. Target audience: SENCO’s / Leaders, Local Authority Staff Tar ...
  4. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    This session will dive into readily available assistive technology found on nearly every device. We will look at how these technologies can be deployed in every class, examining how tools can overlap ...
  5. 60 mins
    • SEMH
    This seminar will discuss current safeguarding and wellbeing challenges facing staff, including emotional load, competing demands, and the impact of sustained pressure. Learn how staff wellbeing and w ...
  6. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This session reframes rare disease as a collectively common experience in schools and explores how unmet medical needs, inconsistent communication and isolation shape pupils’ daily lives. It introduce ...
12:30
  1. 60 mins
    • SEMH
    During this session, we will explore ‘big feelings’ across the Early Years, and how these may be impacted by emerging neurodivergence. We will look at supportive strategies that highlight the signific ...
  2. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    Lost Learning through exclusion and absence remains a very significant challenge for schools. This is especially true for students with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. In this session Shau ...
  3. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    West Midlands ADASS (Association of Directors of Adult Social Care) commissioned a research project in 2023 exploring the family and practitioner perspectives of autism and more specifically parental ...
  4. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    In light of the recent Schools White Paper placing renewed emphasis on behaviour, inclusion and accountability, how can mainstream schools respond in ways that are practical, sustainable and values le ...
  5. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    It seems certain that there will be an increased focus on Adaptive teaching methods within the coming SEND legislation. I believe that the needs of educators has largely moved on from understanding ne ...
  6. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This session starts with the basics?  What is AT? How do you implement it effectively?  What can it afford our learners who struggle to access the curriculum?  We will work through low to high tech of ...
14:00
  1. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    A Whole School Approach to Trauma-Informed Practice explores how educational settings can move beyond trauma-awareness to confidently embedding trauma-informed practice across the whole school system. ...
  2. 60 mins
    • Communication and interaction
    • SEMH
    This seminar explores how to embed children and young people’s rights in mainstream classrooms, with a SEND focus. Drawing on participation and co-production frameworks from the National Children’s Bu ...
  3. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    Research shows that metacognitive development is crucial in supporting the improved attainment of students, but what this actually looks like in the classroom, is sometimes difficult to understand. Th ...
  4. 60 mins
    • Communication and interaction
    This presentation explores practical, evidence-informed strategies for supporting students who are waiting for an autism assessment in mainstream settings. It highlights what works well and what doesn ...
  5. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    Lining up cars isn't a "red flag", it’s a logic. I’ve been the child that was told my play was "wrong"; now, as a teacher, I’ll show you the joy and purpose behind it. We’ll reframe "repetitive" behav ...
  6. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    This seminar will look at some simple steps for underpinning the foundations of maths learning in a mainstream setting for students with SEND or who find maths challenging.  It will highlight the impo ...
15:30
  1. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This session explores how to deliver high-impact one-to-one literacy intervention for pupils with SEND at Targeted Plus level. Drawing on real-world practice, it will share practical, evidence-informe ...
  2. 60 mins
    • Communication and interaction
    This seminar focuses on the often under-recognised presentation of autism in girls and the implications for identification and support in mainstream schools. It will explore differences in social mask ...
  3. 60 mins
    • SEMH
    This session draws on a decade of experience in forensic mental health settings to explore what I learned about creating emotionally safe, and relationally rich environments for schools supporting chi ...
  4. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This one-hour session explores the lived reality of SEND within mainstream education and wider society, the quiet barriers, the invisible labour, and the assumptions that shape outcomes more than we r ...
  5. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    Building and embedding comprehensive Ordinarily Available Provision in mainstream schools for all children including those with SEND is a clear expectation of the SEND reform agenda. In this session, ...
  6. 60 mins
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This seminar explores how behaviour can be understood through an evidence-based, functional framework to support sustainable, school-wide inclusion. Drawing on positive behaviour support and practical ...
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  1. 45 mins
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  1. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • SEMH
    This seminar explores Executive Function skills and their vital role in learning, behaviour and independence across primary, secondary and post-16 education. Delegates will gain a clear understanding ...
  2. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    We are enjoying The Year of Reading but what does this mean for those who face one of a range of barriers to reading a book?  This wide ranging session will identify both a range of barriers and equal ...
  3. 60 mins
    This presentation will examine the crucial role of tuition in safeguarding children with SEND, including the role of the tutor as central to family support, and how tuition, including Alternative Prov ...
  4. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This seminar will illuminate the range of qualitative and quantitative approaches to assessment that school leaders can draw upon to help accurately and holistically monitor the progress pupils with S ...
  5. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This workshop explores how mainstream settings can build meaningful, sustainable partnerships with parent carers to improve outcomes for children and young people with SEND. It will focus on practical ...
  6. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    Could your school use Educational Psychology (EP) time more wisely to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of your SEND, mental health and wellbeing provision? Are you using your EP as a lever for ...
12:30
  1. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This presentation explores how post-16 education can effectively support neurodivergent learners through age-appropriate, aspirational provision that promotes independence, wellbeing, and meaningful p ...
  2. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    Money management is an essential life skill.  Adults with SEND - specifically learning disabilities, cognitive impairments, and autism - are at a significantly higher risk of financial exploitation in ...
  3. 60 mins
    • SEMH
    This presentation presents the findings from the long-term research project looking at the impact that long term physical health conditions have on children’s school lives, examining the use of indivi ...
  4. 60 mins
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This seminar, delivered by specialist occupational therapists, will explore how sensory processing, regulation, and trauma intersect within mainstream school environments. Drawing on clinical expertis ...
  5. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    A pen licence recognises presentation. But writing success is far more complex. This practical session explores why writing can feel overwhelming, particularly for neurodivergent learners, and shows h ...
  6. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    Too often, careers guidance for young people with SEND and / or additional needs focuses on compliance rather than culture, ticking statutory boxes rather than changing outcomes. In this session, Toby ...
14:00
  1. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This session explores how we can move from “speaking for” children and young people with SEND towards creating spaces where their own voices, spoken, signed, non-verbal, creative, or symbolic, are gen ...
  2. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    DCD is an under recognised condition impacting approximately one individual in each classroom nationwide. During this seminar we will explore DCD and how it may present across the key stages and the v ...
  3. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    AI is everywhere, but what does it actually look like in a mainstream classroom supporting learners with SEND? This hands-on seminar cuts through the noise to show you what works right now: adapting r ...
  4. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    Join Amjad for a session packed full of low effort, high impact teaching and learning Ideas that are needed for some, but benefit all. Discover effective Adaptive Teaching strategies that make the sta ...
  5. 60 mins
    • SEMH
    Join Arti Sharma, CEO of nurtureuk, for a practical and thought-provoking seminar on embedding effective relational practice in mainstream schools. Explore how strong, intentional relationships create ...
  6. 60 mins
    • Cognition and learning
    • Communication and interaction
    • Physical and Sensory Difficulties
    • SEMH
    This session will empower early years, primary and secondary education professionals to identify individual children’s needs quickly and carefully, without the long wait or cost for a specialist diagn ...

 

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