A warm welcome to our 21st Annual Conference!

This is certainly a different format this year, and given the national context at present, we aim to ensure that the format offered ensures you are able to plan and access conference sessions over a 10 week timeframe, each Wednesday!

We never thought we would be in this position back in January when we opened bookings for Conference though here we are, and in adjusting swiftly, we have managed to retain a fantastic line up of speakers for you. Our sincere gratitude goes to our speakers, who have agreed to convert their presentations to an online format over the last few weeks.   

At the time, we did not know how much we were going to need to support each other in the move to working from home at the same time as educating our families whilst coping with the national restrictions in place. NADP also developed some resources to help, and these are still available on our Covid-19 resources hub for you to access freely.

We started planning this conference with the joint aims of looking at best practice in supporting disabled students, with additional focus on how we support ourselves in the process ensuring a consistent quality of support to others. Your wellbeing is important to us.

This conference intends to provide you with opportunity to access quality speakers in your own time. We are aiming to do this by providing videos and webinars for you each week from Wednesday 24 June 2020 through to Wednesday 26 August 2020. We trust that you will be able to join us in the webinars, noting it will also be possible for you to watch them later in video format as sessions will be recorded.

Given the current challenges across the sector, our aim for the conference is to be free to all, and there will be no subsequent charge to attend any of the events. The only cost associated is with your time, and I trust that it will be time well spent.

As we are aiming to deliver the conference as cost neutrally as possible, we will be managing accessibility internally with captioned videos and webinars. In doing so, please bear with us and do let us know if you have any particular problems, which we will try to solve as soon as we can. In providing a virtual conference in this way, we too are learning fast and your feedback as a valued membership is highly welcomed in the process, as always.

 Lastly, at the conference end in Week 10, we will be scheduling an opportunity to collectively raise a glass of wine, a gin and tonic, tea or coffee at a closing networking event. Do please join our toast together at this event.

A toast to you, a toast to NADP and a toast to our work with disabled students. Do however note, you will need to provide your own drink for the occasion!

Have a fabulous conference experience all and join us in our festivities in a landmark 21st Anniversary year for the National Association of Disability Practitioners. One to remember!

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