Louisa Reeves joins host Dr. Shaddai Tembo for Series 8 of the TTS Talking Educators’ Podcast to discuss embedding oracy in the curriculum.
Louisa is is Director of Policy and Evidence at Speech and Language UK (formerly I CAN). Speech and Language UK exists to help the more than 2 million children in the UK who face challenges in talking and understanding words. They do this by designing tools and training for nurseries and schools, giving advice and guidance to families and putting pressure on politicians.
Louisa is a speech and language therapist with many years of experience, she has been involved in a number of large scale projects developing and evaluating tools and programmes for early years settings and schools and is responsible for the evaluation of the outcomes and impact of all the charity’s project and development work.
She also leads on Speech and Language UKs policy work including developing and implementing the charity’s campaigns to influence key decision makers including politicians.
In collaboration with TTS
As a contributor to the TTS Talking Educators’ podcast series, Louisa discusses:
- Establishing communication for life
- Acting on speech and language challenges
- How to develop oracy teaching skills
- Speech and language across the curriculum