Beth Moulam

One of the things I like best is making presentations.  My very first one was in October 2005 when I was asked to talk for 5 minutes about ‘My life story’ which had been published in the Communication Matters Journal.  ‘My Life Story’ was written when I was 10 and about how I felt being a communicatin aid user.  Because of the success of this I have given the presentations below: 

What I enjoy is knowing people have chosen to come and listen to me, they sit quietly and at the end and during the rest of the event ask me relevant questions which I can answer using my Lightwriter.

Presentations are changed to be relevant or newly written for each event.  A completely new presentation can take me up to 3 months to write including the power point and pre-programming my speech.

‘My Life Story’ – dress rehearsal at 1 Voice Network day July 2006 and 30 minute workshop at ISAAC 2006 in Dusseldorf, Germany in August 2006

‘My future’ – 15 minute presentation for the Office of Disability Issues Transition workshop in February 2007 to decision makers and influencers in national and local government and representatives of key organisaions.

‘My Life Story’ – 25 minute presentations to groups of staff and students at Beaumont College, Lancaster over 2 days in April 2007  (100 people total) in an Inspiring People event

‘Life is beautiful if you let it be’ dress rehearsal at 1 Voice Network day in July 2008 and 35 minute presentation at ISAAC 2008 in Montreal, Canada in August 2008

‘My life story’  updated, by invitation of Cerebral Palsy Greece at an international Child Development Conference in Athens, November 2008

‘How professionals can help AAC users’ 5 minutes as part of 1 Voice presentation for Communication Matters, September 2009.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anO37UysrPM&feature=channel

‘The Truth, The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth: Labelled?’

35 minute presentation/workshop about how I communicate at Communication Matters, September 2009. I use gesture, facial expression, eye pointing, text, props and of course high tech AAC.  My communication strategies can be see here How I communicate

ISAAC 2010 in Barcelona – 4 presentations

1. The Truth, the Whole Truth and nothing but the Truth – Labelled? More detailed than at Communication Matters – 45 minutes plus questions

2. 1 Voice Teenagers – Making a Difference – our experiences over the last 5 years plus some opinions!

3.  Mel Smith’s Dreams workshop – planned contribution about the importance of dreams to me and my dream to play Boccia for GB in 2016

4.  Dance workshop with Mel, Morgan and Emma – way to go dancing to PINK