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Saturday 4th March 2023
9.30 am - 4 pm
St Andrews Football Ground, Cattell Road, Birmingham B9 4RL
We are pleased to announce our first face-to-face event since 2019, our Dyspraxia in Adulthood Workshop for 2023, offering a 25% discount to members.
This event takes place at St Andrew’s Football Ground, the home of Birmingham City, on Saturday 4th, March. The day promises a full day of talks on diagnosis, education, and workplace advice. An outstanding story from Mark Robinson and ends the day with Great British Bake Off contestant Lizzie Acker.
The day will be intermixed with lived experiences of individuals with dyspraxia, a wide variety of resources, refreshments and lunch.
This workshop has been developed with the support of the newly formed Adult Panel of Advisers, and we are pleased to offer a reduced delegate fee thanks to funds raised to help us support dyspraxic adults.
Pricing for this event is as follows:
Non –Members £40
Members £30
See our website here for full details and to book your place
Existing Dyspraxia Foundation members will have received an email with their discount code to use when booking a place
New members will receive their discount code with their welcome pack
Agenda for the face-to-face workshop:
- 9.30 - Registration
- 10.00 - Welcome from Jonathan Levy Dyspraxia Foundation Chair
- 10.15 - The Journey to Diagnosis in Adulthood for Dyspraxia/DCD with Rosaline Van de Weyer, Director of Dyspraxia UK, Occupational Therapist
- 11.00 - Lived Experience
- 11.15 - Lived Experience
- 11.30 - Morning refreshments
- 11.45 - Special guest speaker – ‘My journey with dyspraxia.’
- 12.30 – Lunch
- 13.30 – Dyspraxia in Further & Higher Education with Dr John Macklin, Head of Education and Communities, University of East London
- 14.15 – Life Experience
- 14.30 – Afternoon refreshments
- 14.45 – Dyspraxia in the Workplace with Laurence Turner, Head of Research & Policy GMB and co-author of ‘Thinking differently at work: Dyspraxia in the Workplace’ GMB Guide
- 15.30 – What does dyspraxia mean to me with Lizzie Acker, a contestant on the 12th season of Great British Bake Off, well known for her showstopper challenge of a ‘brain fuzz cake’ that celebrated all the extraordinary things that make her who she is.
- 16.00- Closing remarks with Chair Jonathan Levy