Managing Children with Cerebral Palsy: more than a movement disorder

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.