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Jun
AusACPDM Listening and Sharing session: 29th June 2022
Meet the Editor of Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
29th June 4:30pm Australian EST
Join us in our free listening and sharing session.
Topic information: Following the successful “Ask me anything” session with Professor Bernard Dan at our AusACPDM/IAACD Conference, we have invited him back for another session where participants can ask anything about publishing. We will discuss how to get your work published, how to be a good peer-reviewer and many more hot topics in publishing.
Speakers: Professor Bernard Dan
The session will be facilitated by: Professor Alicia Spittle
Date: 29 June - 29 June
Location: Zoom, Register for link
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Respiratory Illness in Cerebral Palsy: It’s everybody’s business
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Wednesday 25th May, 2022 4.30pm Australian EST
Topic information: Respiratory illness remains the biggest contributor to deaths in young people with CP. We will present the development of the consensus statement for the assessment, prevention and treatment of respiratory illness in children with CP. This talk will highlight the risk factors for respiratory illness and everybody’s roles in achieving best lung health for children with CP.
Speakers: Dr Noula Gibson, PhD, Research Coordinator Physiotherapist, Perth Children’s Hospital
The session will be facilitated by: Dr Rachael Marpole, Advanced Respiratory Trainee, Perth Children’s Hospital and PI for the REducing ReSPiratory Admission in CP- A Feasibility Controlled Trial (RESP-ACT)
Date: 25 May - 25 May
Location: Zoom, please register for link
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12th AusACPDM Biennial Conference: Respect Respond Reimagine
On behalf of the Australasian Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AusACPDM) we invite and welcome you to the 12th AusACPDM biennial conference hosted from Cairns, traditional lands of the Gimuy Wluburra Yidinji and Yirrganydji people, Australia July 30-August 4, 2024.
The conference theme Respect, Respond, Re-imagine embodies the values and visions of our Academy. Treating people with developmental disabilities and their families, First Nation’s people, each other and the environment with respect, ensuring that we respond to families’ needs, requests and priorities, and re-imagining a world where people with a neurological condition don’t actually have a disability because our world is fully accessible and ableism does not exist.
Our scientific program is starting to be developed in partnership with professionals across many disciplines and families and people with developmental disability. The program will offer a broad range of cutting-edge international research, best practice interventions, knowledge translation and inclusion, from both high and low resource settings.
We invite you to connect, communicate and collaborate, before, during and after the conference. COVID-19 continues to impact people but one of the few positives was the move to more accessible “virtual” education offerings. For this reason, the conference will be fully hybrid. You will be able to attend in person or virtually – whatever is most beneficial for you.
We are aiming to run our first carbon neutral conference. If you choose to join us in person we invite you to help us do this by reducing avoidable greenhouse gas emissions and waste, plus compensating through carbon offsetting. For some, attending virtually is also seen as more sustainable for the environment, another reason for the hybrid format. We will help you take on this mission – stay tuned for updates on the website. This is a very special part of the world, and we must leave no footprints at the end of the conference.
You will see changes on the website as we develop the program and we will continue to update you via e-zines and web notices. Please put the Conference website on your ‘quick-links’ and sign up for our e-zines to keep informed.
We look forward to working, learning and collaborating with you,
Sarah McIntyre, Alicia Spittle & Kirsty Stewart.
on behalf of the “Respect, Respond, Re-imagine” Organising committee
Date: 31 July - 3 August
Location: Cairns, Far North Queensland
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AusACPDM Listening and Sharing session: 27th April 2022
Dispatches From An Information Dessert: Framing CP As Adults
27th April 4:30pm Australian EST
Join us in our free listening and sharing session.
Topic information: Cerebral Palsy is a complex condition to live with, made more so by the fact that it encompasses such a broad spectrum of experiences & realities. Adults living with CP become responsible (by default) for articulating and advocating for themselves within systems not built for continual experience of childhood-onset disabilities. Hannah and Amy bring together both their personal experiences and professional interests to discuss the key elements of this topic.
Speakers: Amy Hogan and Hannah Diviney
The session will be facilitated by: Petra Karlsson and Sarah McIntyre
Date: 27 April - 27 April
Location: Zoom, please register for link
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AusACPDM Listening and Sharing session
“Running sports-focussed interventions in different contexts. Sports Stars in the bush, Brazil and babies.”
Join us in our free listening and sharing session.
Wednesday 30th March 2022 4.30pm to 5.00pm Australian DST/ 3.30pm Australian EST
Topic information:
Sports Stars is a practitioner-led, peer-group sports intervention that aims to prepare children for transition out of health-focussed interventions, and into participation in community sport. In this session, Georgina will share her experiences and learnings from adapting Sports Stars so that it can be run in different geographical and cultural contexts, including rural/remote Australia and Brazil, and in different population groups, including for children with CP, Autism or JIA, young children referred for gross motor delay, and groups with children with a variety of disabilities. This session will include practical information on the role of Physical Literacy in meaningful sports participation.
This session would be enjoyed by people with an interest in sports participation of people with disabilities including clinicians, researchers and people with disabilities and their families.
Speakers: Dr Georgina Clutterbuck
The session will be facilitated by: Dr Megan Auld
Date: 30 March - 30 March
Location: Zoom, please register for link
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AusACPDM Listening and Sharing session
“Assessment of dyskinesia in CP: then and now”
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Wednesday 24th November 2021, 4.30pm to 5.00pm Australian DST
Topic information: This session will provide an overview of recommended assessment practices for children and young people with cerebral palsy and dyskinesia, including measuring the impact of dyskinesia on function. We will present the newly published tool: The Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy Functional Impact Scale (D-FIS). This session is targeted towards physiotherapists, occupational therapists and physicians but will also be of interest to other health professionals, researchers as well as people with cerebral palsy and parents of children with cerebral palsy.
Speakers: Kirsty Stewart and Adrienne Harvey
The session will be facilitated by: Adrienne Harvey
Date: 24 November - 24 November
Location: Zoom, please register for link
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AusACPDM Listening and Sharing session
Supporting children and adults with disabilities in low-middle-income countries during the COVID pandemic
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Wednesday 27th October 2021 at 4.30pm Australian DST
Topic information: Come together to discuss the innovative strategies being used to support families of children and adults with disabilities in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka during the COVID pandemic.
Speakers:
Ms Israt Jahan (Program Manager, CSF Global) will be speaking about how the team at CSF and implementing community-based rehabilitation and research programs during the COVID pandemic.
Prof Samanmali Sumanasena (Hon Consultant Paediatrician North Colombo Teaching Hospital and University of Kelaniya) will be speaking about the impact of the COVID pandemic on health and disability services in Sri Lanka.
Mr Gopi Kitnasamy (Head of Rehabilitation Services) will be talking about the MJF Charitable Foundation’s use of the disABILITY Screening App to provide telehealth services to children and adults with disabilities.
The session will be facilitated by: Dr Hayley Smithers-Sheedy
Date: 27 October - 27 October
Location: Zoom, please register for link
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6th Oct: World CP Day 24hr Listening and Sharing session
What is this 24-hour session about?
By focusing only on diagnosis, we may be missing vital information which we ordinarily think about as clinicians of any sort when we are asked to work with a child and families. We have a long tradition of thinking diagnostically and functionally (or categorically). The idea of focusing just on diagnosis or function is clearly a limitation and we believe we need to expand our thinking.
This 24-hour session provides an opportunity for health professionals working in the field of childhood disability, parents and experiential experts across the globe to come together and ask one another “How can we best benefit from combining two approaches (Functional and Diagnosis thinking)? What are we missing?” “(How) can we integrate and expand both approaches in order to cover topics like bodily functions, mental wellbeing, meaning, quality of life, participating, daily functioning, psychological, social, pedagogical and spiritual aspects?”
Contact IAACD to join the Listening and Sharing Group email
Download a document with links to other sessions around the world here.
Register now for the AusACPDM session (registration link below)
Wednesday 6th October 2021 at 4.30pm Australian EST
Date: 6 October - 6 November
Location: Zoom, please register for links to each hour session
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AusACPDM Listening and Sharing session
Diagnosis vs Functional Thinking
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Wednesday 6th October 2021 at 4.30pm Australian EST
Topic information: This session will be held on World Cerebral Palsy Day and will involve a panel of health professionals and consumers discussing ”diagnosis vs functional thinking” in how we promote excellence in clinical care and research for children and adults with cerebral palsy and developmental conditions.
Speakers: Professor Christine Imms (Occupational Therapist and Apex Chair of Neurodevelopment Disability, MCRI & Uni Melbourne)
Dr Mary-Clare Waugh (Paediatric Rehabilitation Physician, Children’s Hospital Westmead)
Dr Gordon Baike (Paediatrician, Royal Children’s Hospital)
John Carey (Physiotherapist, PhD Candidate Uni Melbourne)
The session will be facilitated by: Professor Alicia Spittle
Date: 6 October - 6 October
Location: Zoom, please register for link
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