King's College London

Over 200 people attended today’s webinar in the Homelessness series at King's, in which speech and language therapist Leigh Andrews, author of "You all f...ing talk too much": meeting communication needs in homelessness settings, and Head of Speech and Language Therapy Development at charity Change Communication, talked about the widespread misunderstandings of communication in work with people experiencing multiple exclusion homelessness and offered approaches and resources to improve practice. See Leigh's slides.

Feedback from participants included:

"Many thanks for the inspiring presentation today."

"Leigh’s presentation was fabulous, concise, informative and engaging."

"Thank you for the wonderful presentation by Leigh Andrews. It enabled me to think carefully how I interact with clients working on the front line."

"Brilliant discussion by Leigh Andrews and really makes you think about the communication we use. Good to see it from a different perspective and expertise like Speech and Language Therapy."

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Coming up

The next webinar in this series is Tell them what they want to hear: Re-thinking assessment practices with people experiencing homelessness on 19 November 2024 with speaker Karl Mason, Royal Holloway, University of London.

Header image: one of Leigh's slides.