2nd UK Paediatric Neuropsychology Symposium: Rehabilitation and Educational Support

• Neuropsychologists
• Clinical Psychologists
• Educational Psychologists
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists
• Paediatric Neurologists
• Neurodevelopmental Paediatricians
• Speech and Language Therapists
• Occupational Therapists
• Rehabilitation Staff
• Educational Support & Special Needs Staff
  

All lectures will be held in the Kennedy Lecture Theatre, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London. WC1N 1EH

Monday 19th April

10.00 - 11.15     Registration

11.15 -11.30      Welcome & Introduction. Dr Peter Rankin, UCL Institute of Child Health

                        & Great Ormond Street Hospital       

11.30 -1.00        Introduction to Evidence Based Neuropsychological Assessment & Intervention.

                        Professor Jacobus Donders, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, Michigan

1.00 -2.15         Lunch/ Poster Session

2.15 -3.45         Lifespan issues in Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: From Infancy through

                        Adulthood

                        Professor Jacobus Donders, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, Michigan

3.45 - 4.00        Break

4.00 - 5.30        Oral Poster Session

5.30 - 6.30        Drinks Reception. ICH Winter Garden

Tuesday 20th April

9.30 - 11.00      Family Participation in the Rehabilitation of the Child with Brain Injury.

                       Professor Lucia Willadino Braga, SARAH Network, Brasilia

11.00 -11.30     Break

11.30 - 1.00      The Use of Technology in the Rehabilitation of the Child with Brain Injury: fMRI and

                       Movement Laboratory. Professor Lucia Willadino Braga, SARAH Network, Brasilia

1.00 - 2.15       Lunch / Poster Session

2.15 - 3.45       Evaluating "Neuroscientific" Treatments for Dyslexia and Language Impairment.

                       Professor Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford

3.45 - 4.00       Break

4.00 - 5.30       Imaging Technology for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Speech Disorders.

                       Professor Fiona Gibbon, University College Cork

Wednesday 21st April

9.30 - 11.00     The Role of the Expert Witness in Neuropsychological Assessment & Rehabilitation.

                      Bond Solon Legal Training Consultancy

11.00 - 11.30   Break

11.30 - 1.00     Brain Injury Rehabilitation in Children & Young Adults: CNS Development, Damage,

                      and Repair. Professor Robert Butler, Oregon Health & Science University

1.00 - 2.15       Lunch / Poster Session

2.15 - 3.45       Development of a Tripartite Approach to Paediatric Rehabilitation and its Validation

                       by a Multi-centre Phase III Clinical Trial.

                       Professor Robert Butler, Oregon Health & Science University

3.45 - 4.00       Break

4.00 - 5.30       The Theory of Structural Cognitive Modifiability and the Neuroplasticity of the Brain.

                      Professor Reuven Feuerstein, The International Centre for the Enhancement of

                      Learning Potential, Jerusalem

7.30 -11.00      Gala Dinner, Quaglino's Restaurant, Mayfair

Thursday 22nd April

9.30 - 11.00     Planning and Self-Regulation Problems in Children Post TBI: Lessons to be Learned

                      from the ADHD Literature

                      Dr Sam Goldstein, Neurology and Behaviour Center, Salt Lake City

11.00 - 11.30   Break

11.30 - 1.00    Social Learning Problems in Post TBI Children: Is Autism an Acquired Disorder?

                      Dr Sam Goldstein, Neurology and Behaviour Center, Salt Lake City

1.00 - 2.15      Lunch / Poster Session

2.15 - 3.45      Educational Outcomes and Intervention in Children with Traumatic Brain Injury.

                     Professor Keith Yeates, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus

3.45 - 4.00     Break

4.00 - 5.30     Social and Behavioural Problems Post Child ABI: a Parent-based Approach to

                    Treatment. Professor Vicki Anderson, University of Melbourne

Friday 23rd April

9.30- 11.00    Recent Neuropsychological Evidence in Anorexia Nervosa and the Implications for

                    Cognitive Remediation Therapy. Dr Ian Frampton, University of Exeter

11.00 -11.30  Break

11.30 -1.00    Making the clinical neuropsychological examination interesting to school-age children:

                    A challenge for our field.

                    Professor George Prigatano, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix

1.00 - 2.15    Lunch /Poster Session                  

 2.15 - 3.45   Dealing with the problem of not developing normally after childhood brain injury:

                    Implications for neuropsychological rehabilitation.

                   Professor George Prigatano, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix

3.45 - 4.00    Closing Comments and End of Symposium

Abstracts

Abstracts available to view here

Course Director

• Dr Peter Rankin, Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children & Honorary Senior Lecturer, UCL Institute of Child Health.

Faculty

• Professor Vicki Anderson, University of Melbourne.
• Professor Lucia Willadino Braga, SARAH Network, Brasilia.
• Professor Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford.
• Professor Robert Butler, Oregon Health & Science University.
• Professor Jacobus Donders, Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital, Michigan.
• Professor Reuven Feuerstein, The International Centre for the Enhancement Learning Potential, Jerusalem.
• Dr Ian Frampton, University of Exeter.
• Professor Fiona Gibbon, University College Cork.
• Dr Sam Goldstein, Neurology and Behaviour Center, Salt Lake City.
• Professor George Prigatano, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix.
• Professor Keith Yeates, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus.

The symposium is supported by:

Bond Solon

National Brain Injury Centre, St Andrews Healthcare

Enquiries regarding sponsorship & exhibition space to: k.gresty@ich.ucl.ac.uk