THE leading, free, CPD event series for disability support professionals.
CPD Revolution is back for its 5th year of in-person events. Join us, our workshop partners, exhibitors and keynote speakers for a jam-packed day of CPD aimed at accessibility and wellbeing professionals from the Disabled Students Allowance (DSA) sector, wider Higher Education sector, and workplace sector. You can expect an innovative programme of interactive workshops, topical keynotes and engaging and fun activities. This CPD event is not to be missed!
Book your place for 2023
The CPD Revolution will return in six locations across the UK in April and May including three entirely new locations.
Book your free place now using your preferred location button below. This will take you to the specific location booking page where you just need to enter your details to receive your booking confirmation.
Keynote speakers
Each CPD Revolution event will start the day with a highly topical keynote address on ADHD, delivered by respected thought leaders with lived experience of neurodiversity.
Tanja Conway -Grim
Presenting in: Reading, Plymouth and Bristol
Tanja will be running fun, interactive, practical and bespoke workshops on working with ADHD students, to help attendees understand how ADHD may impact a student and what they can do to support them.
The workshop will be based on Tanja’s specialist coaching and mentoring that she provides for neurodivergent people, including university students with ADHD, covering:
- What is ADHD (including co-occurring and co-morbid conditions)?
- What are the strengths and challenges?
- How do you help someone prioritise?
- How to support focus and concentration and prevent overwhelm.
Liss Chard-Hall and Nikki Chard-Hall
Presenting in: Coventry, Manchester and Newcastle Upon Tyne
Liss Chard-Hall is an ADHD-Autistic self-advocate, working as a specialist study skills tutor and mentor in higher education, as well as a lecturer in autism history. Nikki Chard-Hall is an autistic self-advocate with OCD and works as a specialist autism mentor.
During their keynote address ‘ADHD: A Recipe,’ Liss and Nikki will discuss the obstacles of navigating university with ADHD. This talk will look at the misconceptions of ADHD, how ADHDers are viewed by society, and how a few simple changes in ingredients can set them up for success.
The CPD Revolution 2023 hosts
As hosts, the eQS Disability Support team will be presenting case studies that bring disability support to life through storytelling as well as hands-on product trials.
eQS Head of Operations Natasha Hardiman and eQS Strategic Relationship Manager Michelle Brown will present case studies on how two different individuals in different environments with different learning needs each received NMH and e-learning support and how this affected their outcomes.
The case studies presentation will feature on the main presentation stage and eQS will also be offering live product trials and discussion on our end-to-end disability support services in the exhibitors space.
eQS Disability Support includes diagnostic assessments from the Educational Guidance Service, Non-Medical Help from Amano, AT equipment from Invate, AT training from e-Quality Learning and AT e-learning from Learning Labs.
Workshop partners
MatchWare is the global leader in professional mind mapping and enterprise meeting management solutions. The award winning ‘MindView’ mind mapping software and ‘MeetingBooster’ professional meeting management software enables users to collaborate, innovate and increase productivity from any device in order to achieve greater success throughout an organisation.
Brain in Hand is a digital self-management support system combining human and digital support for users who need help remembering things, making decisions, planning, or managing anxiety.
During our workshop we’ll be exploring the digital support Brain in Hand provides such as simple digital tools for organising time, managing anxiety, and solving problems when you can’t remember what to do. Whether its managing study plans or attending lectures, travelling or talking to the people who support you, Brain in Hand can help. We will also demonstrate the simple to use traffic light system for mood monitoring. This helps users to reflect on their progress and celebrate achievements.
Booost Education provides smart tools for those who think and learn differently. Founded by education and student support specialists, the goal was to provide support in the areas where they knew individuals struggled. Namely, helping those who have trouble knowing what to do and when, and making sure they have constant access to wellbeing support and advice.
Attendees of our workshop can expect a demo of our products to see the ways they help users to maximise their learning; it’s also a great chance to ask any questions you may have about Booost or our products.
Did you know that 80% of people with ADHD have at least one other diagnosis? In this interactive Present Pal workshop, attendees will explore some of the presentation challenges individuals with ADHD and other neurodiversities and mental health conditions can experience. The Present Pal app is an accessible flashcard app designed with these challenges in mind. Attendees will experience the Present Pal app first hand and will learn how its features can support users with ADHD and other diagnoses to overcome their presentation challenges and achieve their presentation goals.
Glean is a note taking tool that helps improve grades, boost confidence and reduce stress. With Glean, you never have to worry about missing important information again! Record lectures or meetings in full, listen back at your own pace, and annotate with different note types to create a complete learning resource – tailored to you. Glean is easy to use, works online or offline, in-person or virtually, providing space to focus on active listening, and then a process to refine and retain information effectively.
During our workshop we’ll showcase how Glean supports users who experience challenges with working memory, attention, cognitive load, executive functioning and information processing, empowering them to take meaningful audio notes with a proven note taking process.
CPD Revolution 2023 exhibitors
Amano is an experienced and trusted NMH provider operating in the DSA sector for over ten years covering Bands 1-4. Amano also offers NMH services via the Access to Work fund and direct in workplace organisations. Amano will be ready to discuss any NMH questions you have and will also be featuring case studies as part of the eQS presentation on the main stage.
Learning Labs is a specialist AT e-learning platform with thousands of Labs on how to use all of the most popular AT software. At Learning Labs, we like to keep it simple. Every person who receives assistive technology deserves an AT e-learning platform. From receiving AT training right through to independence with your AT, Learning Labs is there with the library of digital tutorials, ready to support you any time, anywhere. Visit us in the exhibition space to try it out for yourself and take away your own free licence.
The Educational Guidance Service is one of the largest teams of Educational and Occupational Psychologists in the UK delivering diagnostic assessments for Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs). Meet the EGS team to find out how our specialist team has been helping change lives with psychological diagnostics for children and adults in education and the workplace.
At Texthelp, it’s our mission to help every DSA student understand and be understood. We want to give them the confidence they need to study smarter and achieve their full potential. That’s why across the Texthelp Group, we have designed assistive technology to help users meet the challenges of reading, writing, maths and study. Come along to our stand where you can explore our different solutions and how they address different learning needs. Our friendly Texthelpers will be on hand to help you find the right tools to support each individual.
CareScribe is an award-winning assistive technology company based in Bristol, UK. They build technology which levels the playing field and helps people access the world. CareScribe’s products are used by tens of thousands of people daily and include Caption.Ed (note-taking and captioning software) and TalkType (dictation software).
Want to get to grips with the products yourself? Head over to CareScribe’s exhibition stand and you’ll get a 1:1 demo, be able to put your questions to a team of experts, and also get a licence key so you can try out the software yourself.
Visit the Phonak stand and explore why hearing aids alone do not, and cannot, address all the difficulties that are experienced by someone with a hearing loss. We will look into the impact of dynamic communication needs and what we can do to support individuals to break down barriers and reach their full potential.
Find out about Spellex’s assistive technology products and course specific vocabularies that provide basic literacy assistance for neurodiverse students and professionals.
Stop by and hear about our speech and spelling vocabularies for the fields of nursing, medicine, science, engineering, and law, and see a demonstration of new enhancements to Spellex Write-Assist, our all-in-one Assistive Technology Toolbar.
Spellex Write-Assist now integrates with Google Chrome and includes speech-to-text, text-to-speech, definitions and pronunciations, advanced British spelling and error reporting, screen magnification, dyslexic type font, picture dictionary, pdf tools, image-to-text, and more!
With over 30 years of experience, KAZ Type has evolved into one of the leading education software companies providing touch typing solutions for neurodivergents and those with hearing and visual impairment.
Visit our stand and discover our unique ‘preference screen’ which minimises visual disturbances and now includes specified filter colours catering for Mears-Irlen, our Proven Accelerated Learning teaching method as well as the our upload vocabulary feature and our new VI edition which was developed with advice & guidance from the Thomas Pocklington Trust)
KAZ believe learning to touch type offers a new and powerful medium for learning and communicating, helps level the playing field.
We hope to see you there
Why should you attend?
- CPD certificate for the sessions attended.
- Workshops on leading AT with interactive content.
- Highly topical keynote address on ADHD.
- Exhibitors offering free licences and open to answer all your questions.
- Free licence for Learning Labs.
- Free raffle prize draw including AT, vouchers and other donations from our partners.
- Free lunch!
Important networking opportunity
The event offers a chance to connect with colleagues, software partners as well as discussing important industry, business or even personal news. We look forward to reconnecting with you all.
