ALS AGM

19th November

Change of Venue

Now to be held at 10.15 am on
Saturday 19th November 2011 at
Action on Hearing Loss Headquarters
19-23 Featherstone Street, London EC1Y 8SL

The date of our Conference and AGM this year clashes with the AGM and Centenary Conference of Action on Hearing Loss, which will take place at the Honourable Artillery Company, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ.

Action on Hearing Loss has kindly offered our student lipspeakers the opportunity to undertake lipspeaking assessments at this event and the ALS has been asked to help promote lipspeaking by attending the conference exhibition with our stand and promotional material. Members of the Access to Communication in English (ACE) coalition are also working with Action on Hearing Loss to devise other ways of highlighting the availability of ACE communication support methods more generally to visitors to the Conference.

The ALS committee has therefore decided that rather than trying to re-schedule our own Conference and AGM, and ask members to attend both events in November, we will, for this year only, hold our AGM at 10.15 am at the Action on Hearing Loss Headquarters and invite members to attend the Action on Hearing Loss Centenary Conference thereafter. We will not, of course, be charging for entry to our AGM and there will be no charge for entry to the Centenary Conference. Action on Hearing Loss has generously offered us the use of their premises for our AGM free of charge; it is only a very short walk from Featherstone Street to the venue for the Centenary Conference.

Action on Hearing Loss has not yet confirmed full details of the speakers at the conference, but topics will certainly include a review of the charity's work over the past 100 years, its vision for the future and updates on the various campaigns and research projects that it is currently undertaking. The actress Annette Crosbie will also be speaking about her own experience of deafness.

We will be sending you further information relating to our AGM in due course and more information about the Centenary Conference as soon as it becomes available. In the meantime, please could you make a note of the time and venue for the AGM and we look forward to seeing you there.

Dilys Palin

Chair, Association of Lipspeakers.

Some feedback from our previous 2010 AGM is as follows:

From the people who filled in the evaluation sheets.

It was marked as: 6 being excellent and 1 very poor.

Six people thought it was well organised and interesting.
Two people thought it was 5 for being interesting and well organised.
One person gave it a 6 for being well organised and 2 for being interesting.
One person thought it was 5 for being well organised and 6 for it being interesting.

Other comments people found useful were:
Two people agreed about the updates on the future, where we are hoping to go.
Interesting to know where we are with the training.
Two people said: Hearing about agencies, things that we did not know or think about.
Four people thought: Networking, it was good to see and catch up with other lipspeakers and professionals.
The location.
Informal chat.
Access to work information.
RNID Emergency Service text.
Knowing that Lipspeaker UK is officially launched.
Having deaf clients there.
On the negative side: People would of like more clean cups and drinks in the afternoon.
One person commented that it was generally a very good day, and thank you for all the hard work you put into it.

We look forward to seeing you all at the Annual Workshop July 9 2011