Events
Jul
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: September 2024
CP Active – Activating Our Voices for Change
Join us in our free listening and sharing session.
25th September 2024, 4:30pm – 5:30pm Australian Eastern Savings time
Topic information: An update on the CP community’s advocacy platform, CPActive. CPActive is a grassroots movement driven by individuals with CP, similar disabilities, and their allies. Discover our three key pillars: advocating for change, fostering community, and creating opportunities for development. Learn about our initiatives and find out how you can be part of our community and help amplify the voice of lived experience towards inclusion.
This session will be of interest to clinicians, researchers, students and people with lived experience.
Speakers:Aman Gopalani, Daniel Clarke, Riley Saban, Sophie Geeves and Teigan Butchers
The session will be facilitated by: Georgina Henry
Date: 25 September - 25 September
Location: Zoom, register for link.
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IAACD Global Professional Education Committee Global Listening and Sharing Sessions 2024
SAVE THE DATE!
Date: 29 November - 29 November
Location: Virtual, Links to register for each session will be released closer to the date
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2025 CP-Acheive & AusACPDM Cerebral Palsy Symposium
The 2025 CP-Achieve and AusACPDM Symposium will focus on Progress and Possibilities- celebrating 5 years of research through lived experience and planning the future, and is an event not to be missed!
The symposium will bring together the CP-Achieve team, collaborators, invited researchers, and people with lived experience to share the work that has been accomplished in the past five years and new knowledge on the advancement of lifespan outcomes for young people with cerebral palsy.
The symposium will be held over two days and explore research looking at the health, well-being and participation of adolescents and young people with cerebral palsy and the future of cerebral palsy research beyond CP-Achieve.
There will be a range of interesting and informative speakers and expert talks covering the latest research, as well as opportunities for symposium attendees to engage, contribute and network.
This will be an in-person event and there will be no live streaming or recordings available post symposium.
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION OPENS AT 8:00AM 31 JULY 2024!
Visit the CP-Achieve website for more inforamtion
https://www.cp-achieve.org.au/about/the-cp-achieve-ausacpdm-symposium-2025/
Date: 3 April - 4 April
Location: Melbourne
Register nowJun
Save the Date. IAACD / EACD Conference in Heidelberg (Germany), June 24th-28th 2025.
The combined congress of the European Academy together with the International Alliance of Academies of Childhood Disability (EACD-IAACD) will take place from Tuesday 24th June to Saturday 28th June, 2025, in Heidelberg, Germany. This will be a hybrid conference, held onsite at the new Heidelberg Congress Centre and will also be supported by 24 hour-online live sessions. This event is a rare global event of multiple professional groups focusing on the research, clinical care and support for individuals with childhood-onset disabilities. People with lived experience, families and stakeholders will be actively involved.
Keep up to date through the website and social media. In the next few weeks there will be weekly video clips from around the world with over 70 interviews with professionals and persons with lived experiences, caregivers and stakeholders talking about their views, challenges and wishes in the field of child-onset disabilities.
Date: 24 June - 28 June
Location: Heidelberg Congress Center, HD Hauptbahnhof Süd, Heidelberg, Germany
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