The AACPDM Annual Meeting

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October 2015
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Date/Time: October 21-24, 2015

Location: JW Marriott Austin, Texas

Description: The 2015 Scientific Program Committee is pleased to announce that the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM) will take place October 21-24, 2015 in Austin, Texas. The AACPDM Annual Meeting provides high-quality dissemination of information in the basic sciences, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and technical advances as applied to persons with cerebral palsy and other childhood-onset disabilities. New Frontiers is the theme for the meeting.

AACPDM Annual Meeting Objectives:

To disseminate information on new developments in applied and translational sciences, prevention, diagnosis, technology and utilizing recommendations from current clinical guidelines for treatment for individuals with cerebral palsy and other childhood-onset disabilities.
To create an interdisciplinary forum to facilitate communication and team-building between professional who are providing services and care for individuals with childhood onset disabilities.
To facilitate the integration between research and practice to improve the well being of people with childhood onset disabilities.

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Child with a Disability

Speakers

Linda Fetters, PT, PhD, FAPTA

Dr. Fetters is Professor and Sykes Family Chair in Pediatric Physical Therapy, Health and Development, Division of Biokinesiology & Physical Therapy and Department of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. She directs the Development of Infant Motor Performance Laboratory where her research focuses on very early intervention using discovery learning as an intervention and experimental paradigm. Dr. Fetters teaches development, motor control, pediatric physical therapy and evidence-based physical therapy practice. Dr. Fetters was named Editor-in-Chief of the journal Pediatric Physical Therapy, effective Janurary 1, 2016. Dr. Fetters is a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the APTA, the highest honor the association bestows upon its members. She has taught and given scientific presentations throughout the United States and Sweden, the Netherlands, Tanzania, Taiwan, Japan and Brazil. She was recently named a Fulbright Scholar to Australia for 2015-2016.

Jan Willem Gorter, MD, PhD, FRCP(C)

Jan Willem Gorter, MD, PhD, FRCP(C) is a Professor of Pediatrics at McMaster University. He is Director of CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research (www.canchild.ca). He holds the Scotiabank Chair in Child Health Research. Dr. Gorter has training in pediatric and adult rehabilitation medicine (physiatry) with a special clinical and research interest in transitional services and lifespan. He leads a teen-transition clinic for teenagers with cerebral palsy / developmental disabilities and their families at McMaster Children’s Hospital. His research focuses on the themes of family, function (daily activities & participation) with a special interest in fitness /active lifestyle and in transitions from adolescence to adulthood. He works with a number of undergraduate and graduate students at several universities in Canada and the Netherlands. He is author/co-author of > 125 papers published in international peer-reviewed journals and book chapters on cerebral palsy, transition to adulthood, and sexual development & health.

Elizabeth Laugeson, Psy.D

Dr. Elizabeth Laugeson is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute and is a licensed clinical psychologist. Dr. Laugeson is the Founder and Director of the UCLA PEERS Clinic, which is an outpatient hospital-based program providing parent-assisted social skills training for individuals with social impairments from preschool to adulthood. She is also the Training Director for the UCLA Tarjan Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) and Director of The Help Group – UCLA Autism Research Alliance, which is a collaborative research initiative dedicated to developing and expanding applied clinical research in the treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder. Having trained thousands of mental health professionals, educators, and families in the PEERS method, Dr. Laugeson is dedicated to developing and testing evidence-based treatments to improve social skills across the lifespan, and disseminating these empirically supported programs across the globe.

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JW Marriott Austin

110 E 2nd St

Austin, TX US

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