30 September 2005 - Swansea - SNAP Cymru Annual Conference

SNAP CYMRU ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2005

SNAP Cymru is the Special Needs Advisory Project for Wales. They are a charity that offers information and support to families of children with learning difficulties or people who have special educational needs.

This conference aims to tackle the issues which lead to disengagement or school exclusion, explore practical solutions and share good practice. Social exclusion is everybody's business.

Seminars include:

• The Role of Nutrition in Children's Behaviour, Learning and Mood. Can Dietary Interventions Help? led by Dr Alex Richardson - Seniour Research Fellow, Mansfield College and University Lab of Physiology, Oxford; Co-Director, Food and Behaviour Research

• Building the Capacity of Schools to Manage Challenging Behaviour led by Sharon Davies - Access to Learning Manager - Swansea LEA

• Challenges and Opportunities of Workforce Remodelling led by Pauline Lewis - Consortium Co-ordinator South West and Mid Wales Consortium

• Emotional Literacy: Implications for Improving Student Behaviour led by Adrian Faupel - Educational Psychologist, University of Southampton

• Minimising Explosions led by Nigel Mason - Primary Mental Health Worker, Trehafod Child & Family Clinic - Swansea

• The Inspection Process and Behaviour led by Mike Munting - HM Inspector - Estyn

• About Me 2 led by Young People - supported by Funky Dragon