Events
Apr
AusACPDM Listening and Sharing session: April 2025
The hope of unproven therapies:
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of patient & family enquiries
Join us in our free listening and sharing session.
30th April 2025, 4:00pm – 5:00pm Australian Eastern Standard Time
Topic information: Healthcare professionals are increasingly approached by consumers seeking advice on unproven online therapies. In this session we will discuss the experiences of healthcare providers, the complexities involved and explore opportunities on how to navigate and respond to these enquiries.
Speakers: Leanne Rees is a physiotherapist and post-doctoral research officer at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is investigating how healthcare professionals navigate patient’s and family’s therapeutic hopes in the online age.
The session will be facilitated by: Stacey Cleary
Date: 30 April - 30 April
Location: Zoom, Register for the link
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AusACPDM Listening and Sharing: May 2025
The PREMTiME Study – implications for early targeted surveillance of very preterm infants
Join us in our free listening and sharing session.
28th May 2054, 4:30pm – 5:30pm Australian Eastern Savings time
Topic information: The PREMTiME study is a collaboration between the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service and the University of Queensland that aims to deliver family centred, cost effective and clinically efficient follow-up services for very preterm born and very low birthweight infants. Outcomes of the first phase of the study identified new biomarkers that may help clinicians make very early and accurate predictions about outcomes in children who are born very preterm or with very low birthweight. This session is relevant for families with children impacted by preterm birth and health care professionals working in acute neonatal developmental care and neonatal neurodevelopmental follow up services.
Speaker: Dr Rebecca Caesar, PhD (Clinical Lead Paediatric Physiotherapy, Women’s and Children’s Service, Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service)
Date: 28 May - 28 May
Location: Zoom, register for link.
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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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AusACPDM Listening and Sharing session: July 2025
Research Toolkit unpacked- a guide by One Group Our Voice!!
Join us in our free listening and sharing session.
30th July 2025, 4:00pm – 5:00pm Australian Eastern Standard time
Topic information: This presentation provides a talk and discussion on:
People who use AAC are underrepresented in research and so their voices, issues and needs are not heard. One reason they are excluded from research is the confidence of researchers to meaningfully engage with AAC users. One Group Our Voice (AAC users themselves) and colleagues have developed a Toolkit containing information and resources for involving AAC users in research as participants and research partners. In this session they will orient listeners to issues in communicating with AAC users, describe accessible research and research methods, and examine the important issues of seeking fully informed consent and working with communication supporters.
Speakers: AAC users Brenton Ponza, Penny Manning, Brodie Shaw and Shirls Wong, and Jenna O’Brien
The session will be facilitated by: Shirls Wong
Date: 30 July - 30 July
Location: Zoom, Register for the link
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13th AusACPDM Biennial Conference
We are pleased to announce that the next AusACPDM Biennial Conference will be held in Hobart, Tasmania, 3-7 March 2026.
Join the mailing list to keep up to date with all the latest conference news.
More information and announcements are to follow.
Date: 3 March - 7 March
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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