NEW Live DLD Webinar Series for 2025!
Recognising and Supporting DLD in the Classroom
Do you have children in your class who struggle with the language demands of the classroom?
Do they, or may they have Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)?
If you’re a Teacher or Teaching Assistant looking to improve your understanding of DLD join us for our live webinars.
Led by ex-teacher, now Trainer, Sue Marr, and a team of highly specialised therapists and teachers, these webinars are aimed specifically at helping staff in busy, mainstream schools to support children and young people with DLD.
Afterwards you will:
- Be able to recognise the key signs of DLD
- Understand how DLD affects teaching, learning and social and emotional skills
- Know which conditions often co-occur with DLD and the unique challenges of each
- Have actionable, proven strategies that you can implement in the classroom straight away
These sessions are held as twilight, one-hour sessions (dates below) and are also available via a video replay until the end of 2025.
Thursday 6th February at 16:00
Length - 1 hour
Delivered live with recorded version available afterwards.
In this webinar, Specialist Teacher Sue Marr will cover the fundamentals of DLD and how to recognise it. It’s a hidden disability with surprisingly little coverage in SEN literature, yet is more common than Autism. Could it be language that your student is struggling with and not something else? And if it is language, where can you go to get more help, advice and training?
Learning outcomes:
- Understand what DLD is (and what it’s not!)
- Recognise the signs of DLD within a classroom setting
- Understand the prevalence of within the general population and how that translates to the school environment
- Identify how DLD affects learning and impacts social skills and mental health
- Know which organisations and resources are available to get support, information and training on Developmental Language Disorder
Thursday 6th March
Length - 1 hour
Delivered live with recorded version available afterwards. Access includes a bi-monthly live Q&A session until the end of 2025.
What can you do as a teaching professional to support the children with DLD in your class? In this webinar, Specialist Teacher Sue Marr shares actionable strategies and approaches to help you improve understanding and learning for children with DLD in your class.
Learning outcomes
- Understand the key strategies that can be used to help children with DLD access learning and make progress
- Develop an awareness of the simple changes you can make in your teaching and communication to benefit all students in the class, especially those with DLD
- Discover the best resources for supporting children with DLD to acquire and understand language
Thursday 3rd April 16:00
Length - 1 hour
Delivered live with recorded version available afterwards.
In this webinar, highly experienced Speech and Language Therapist and intervention researcher Dr. Susan Ebbels, alongside Specialist Teacher Sue Marr, will explore the conditions that commonly co-occur with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
Learning outcomes:
- To gain an understanding of the range of conditions that frequently co-occur with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
- To explore the overlap with other neurodevelopmental conditions and DLD
- To recognize how these co-occurring difficulties, present alongside DLD in real-life scenarios.
Thursday 1st May 2025 16:00
Length – 1 hour
Literacy underpins most things you do in class, but language underpins everything. A child with DLD will have significant, ongoing difficulties using and/or understanding language which impacts on speaking and listening, reading and writing. In this webinar, Specialist Teacher Sue Marr and Specialist Literacy Tutor Angela Belliveau detail why children with DLD struggle with literacy and share practical activities and approaches to support the development of literacy skills.
Learning outcomes:
- Understand why children with DLD struggle with literacy
- Identify the signs that a child is having difficulty with reading, spelling, comprehension and narratives
- Understand the importance of and methods to develop questioning skills
- Know the key activities and strategies to support acquisition of literacy skills for children with DLD
Thursday 22nd May 2025 16:00
Length – 1 hour
Narratives are challenging for children with Developmental Language Disorder, from understanding the initial gist of the tale, through to re-telling and building upon stories and using the right words to describe what is happening. Storytelling is crucial for being able to produce meaningful written work. In this webinar, Specialist Teacher Sue Marr and Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Hilary Nicoll explain why narratives are difficult for children with DLD, how to spot when children are struggling with narrative skills and how you can support the development of written skills in the classroom through storytelling.
Learning outcomes
- Understand the reasons why children with DLD find it hard to understand, recall and produce their own narratives
- Identify the signs that a child is struggling with storytelling and the impacts that may have on learning as well as in social interactions and emotional health
- Know some of the key strategies to support the development of written skills through improving storytelling ability
Thursday 12th June 2025 16:00
Length – 1 hour
Developing grammatical skills is very tricky for children with DLD, yet it’s an important skill needed for communication and learning. In this webinar, Specialist Teacher Sue Marr and Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Hilary Nicoll break down the reasons why grammar is so difficult for children with DLD and share practical strategies for supporting the development of grammar.
Learning outcomes
- Understand why children with DLD find grammar so difficult
- Identify the key areas of difficulty with grammar that a child with DLD may have
- Know how to spot these grammar difficulties when you see them in a child’s communication and work
- Discover the most effective strategies and practical activities to develop grammatical knowledge and capability for children with DLD
Thursday 3rd July 2025 16:00
Length – 1 hour
Vocabulary is challenging for children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), both for understanding as well as using the right words to express what they want to say. The ability to acquire, understand and use vocabulary has a significant impact on learning and attainment. In this webinar, Specialist Teacher Sue Marr and Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Hilary Nicoll unpack why vocabulary is so challenging along with sharing how to develop key skills to support the learning and use of new words.
Book Your Place
Bookings for this series are now open!
