Developmental Verbal Dyspraxia
Study day on Thursday 19th May 2016
Oriel House, Upper Denbigh Rd, Saint Asaph, LL17 0LW
09.30 – 16.00
Presenter Pam
Williams
This study day will cover current theoretical understanding of Developmental Verbal
Dyspraxia (DVD), assessment approaches and differential diagnosis, management of DVD,
including: speech & language therapy approaches and service delivery; tips for parents to
use at home and for teachers to use in the school.
Pam is a Consultant Speech and Language Therapist and Fellow of the Royal College of
Speech and Language Therapists. Pam has spent much of her working life at the Nuffield
Hearing & Speech Centre, London. She was involved in creating the original Nuffield Centre
Dyspraxia Programme, published in 1985, co-edited the current third edition, and has
overall responsibility for the Nuffield Dyspraxia Programme (NDP3) ongoing development.
Pam is primarily a clinician, who assesses and treats children with severe speech
impairments. However, she has lectured widely in UK and Ireland on the subject of NDP and
DVD.
Pam was a member of the working party who produced the RCSLT Policy Statement on DVD
published November 2011. She is also a former chair of the Dyspraxia Foundation Charity.
Pam has recently completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Sheffield, investigating
diadochokinetic (a test used by speech-language pathologists (SLP) to assess, diagnose, and
treat speech malfunctions) skills in 4-7 year old children with speech difficulties.
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