The course aims to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to the assessment and management of multiple aspects of cerebral palsy.
Dates: Monday 5 March and Tuesday 6 March 2012
Who should attend?
Paediatricians, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and physiotherapists and other professionals working with children in local health or education settings. The course may also be of interest to parents.
The course will include:
- Epidemiology, aetiology, investigation guidelines
- Classification frameworks and practical problem lists
- Common and less common co-morbidities
- Approaches to postural management
- Orthopaedic intervention
- Cerebral imaging
- Assessment of functional visual skills
- Practical assessment approaches to communication and cognition
- Developments in technology for children with limited access skills
Provisional programme
Monday 5 March 2012
9.00 - 9.30 Registration
9.30 - 10.15 Session 1 – Phenotypic and Functional Classification
10.15 - 11.00 Session 2 – Epidemiology & Investigation
11.00 - 11.30 Refreshments
11.30 - 12.30 Session 3 – Common and less common co-morbidities
12.30 - 13.15 Session 4 – Dysphagia management
13.15 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.00 Session 5 - Assessing vision for communication
15.00 - 15.45 Session 6 – Practical approaches to assessing communication and cognition
15.45 - 16.15 Refreshments
16.30 - 17.15 Session 7 – Illustrative Case History
Tuesday 6 March 2012
09.00 - 09.30 Registration
09.30 - 10.00 Session 1 – Postural Management 1
10.00 - 10.30 Session 2 – Postural Management 2
10.30 - 11.30 Session 3 – Orthopaedic Mx: When to call a surgeon and what will s/he do
11.30 - 12.00 Refreshments
12.00 - 13.00 Session 4 – Cerebral imaging and predicting outcome
13.00 - 14.15 Lunch
14.15 - 14.45 Session 5 – S/he uses a switch
14.45 - 15.30 Session 6 – Total Communication Systems (low-tech and hi-tech)
15.30 - 16.00 Refreshments
16.15 - 17.15 Session 7– Illustrative Case History
Stands displaying a range of assessment tools, orthoses and other tools to aid postural management, and posters containing material supplementing lecture topics will also be on display.
Location
UCL Institute of Child Health, London (
map and directions)
Sponsors
Organisations are invited to sponsor and exhibit at this event. For further information please contact Claire Lister, 020 7905 2232,
claire.lister@ucl.ac.uk.
Fee
Standard fee: £180
Early Bird discount fee (book before 20 January): £160
Registration
Download a
registration form and return by post to ICH Events, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH or by fax to 020 7831 6902.
Terms and conditions
Please see our
cancellations policy for details of terms and conditions and information on cancellations.