Health & Wellbeing in Children, Youth and Adults with Developmental Disabilities
This conference will provide educational and informative updates on psychiatric, behavioural and complex health components specific to individuals with DD, and showcase best practices in the field.
Specifically, the conference will focus on approaches to complex challenging behaviours, contributing medical issues and new developments in medication and behavioural treatment. In addition, the conference will address important health and mental health issues and will review common genetic syndromes such as Down Syndrome and Fragile X. This conference will engage health care providers and educators from a wide range of professional disciplines in knowledge transfer and interprofessional collaboration in order to maximize health and wellbeing so as to minimize disability and improve quality of life. The format will include plenaries, breakout sessions and poster sessions.
Conference Objectives :
- To promote best practices in physical and mental health for individuals with developmental disabilities
- Recognize the multifactorial determinants of challenging behaviour
- Recognize the role of traumatic experiences in understanding challenging behaviour
- Maximize health and wellbeing in order to minimize disability and improve quality of life
- Share knowledge and common experiences with others working in the field.
Advance notice/Call for abstract is now available. Abstracts submissions are accepted until March 30, 2012. Click here to submit an abstract.
