Why can't that child sit still? Exploring learning differences in children
Tuesday 4 October 2011
Venue: Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole Street, LONDON, W1G 0AE
Background
Caring for children with problems involves a lot more than just biomedicine. Children grow up in specific family, social, cultural and educational settings. If they have problems adapting to what is expected of them then all these settings and all who work in them come into the frame.
Children with problems often attract diagnoses or labels including Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Audit Process Dysfunction, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia etc. How valid are such labels? How useful are they? How can we recognise children with these problems? How can we help them?
Multidisciplinary working can be challenging, but there are also great opportunities to help children if we set out to share our understanding and solve problems together.
Aim of the symposium
The symposium will offer a broad and multidisciplinary survey of problems and solutions when working with children with psycho–social problems. It will help to facilitate cross-tribal working between educationalists and health care professionals.
Learning objectives - to cover:
* Recognising children with psycho-social problems
* Assessing children with psycho-social problems
* Critical examination of diagnosis validity and utility
* Evidence for medical, educational and other therapeutic interventions
* Matching children's needs to available therapeutic options
* Issues arising in multidisciplinary working
Who should attend?
Paediatricians, psychologists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, GPs, teachers and other educators, speech and language therapists, children's occupational therapists, social workers, physiotherapists and other therapists.
***Online registration has now closed. Places are still available however we cannot guarantee lunch for late registrants***
Registration Details:
Consultant/GP: £220
RSM Retired Fellow: £90
RSM Student: £35
RSM Trainee: £90
RSM Associate: £90
RSM Fellow: £150
Student: £45
Trainee: £110
AHP/Nurse/Midwife: £110
Teacher/Social Worker: £110
9.00 am |
Registration with tea and coffee |
9.30 am |
Welcome and introduction |
| Dr David Misselbrook, Dean, Royal Society of Medicine | |
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SESSION ONE |
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| Chair: Dr David Misselbrook, Dean, Royal Society of Medicine | |
9.40 am |
Recognising the child who is different |
| Ms Jackie Murray, Principal, Fairley House School | |
9.50 am |
Diagnosis and description |
| Ms Maggie Johnson, Speech and Language Therapist | |
10.05 am |
The range of problems |
| Jane Emerson MSc Speech and Language Therapist; Director, Emerson House, West London | |
10.20 am |
A multidisciplinary assessment |
| Professor Ricky Richardson, Consultant Paediatrician | |
10.35 am |
Panel discussion |
10.55 am |
Coffee break |
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SESSION TWO: WORKSHOPS |
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1.25 am |
Delegates may choose from the following seven workshops: |
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WORKSHOP A Statementing - Present and future |
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| Led by a panel including a Local Education Authority Representative, a lawyer and a parent. | |
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WORKSHOP B Specific Language Impairment |
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| Ms Maggie Johnson, Speech and Language Therapist | |
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WORKSHOP C ADHD |
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Professor Eric Taylor, Institute of Psychiatry Dr Tara Murphy, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children |
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WORKSHOP D Autism spectrum disorder and Asperger's syndrome |
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| Professor David Skuse, Head of Behavioural and Brain Sciences Unit, UCL | |
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WORKSHOP E Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia |
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Dr Bettina Hohnen, Chartered Clinical Psychologist Ms Jackie Murray, Principal, Fairley House School |
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WORKSHOP F Auditory processing dysfunction - do we believe in it? |
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| Dr Tony Sirimanna, Consultant in Audiological Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children | |
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WORKSHOP G Nutrition as an intervention |
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Professor John Stein, Oxford University Michael Crawford, Director, Institute of Brain Chemistry & Human Nutrition |
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12.30 pm |
Lunch break |
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SESSION THREE: WORKSHOPS (REPEATED) |
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1.30 pm |
Workshops from the morning session will be repeated to allow delegates to attend two from the possible seven |
2.35 pm |
Tea break |
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SESSION FOUR: HELPING KIDS |
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| Chair: Professor Ricky Richardson, Consultant Paediatrician | |
3.00 pm |
Matching interventions and education to diagnosis |
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Dr Jane Hood, Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychologist Registered Educational Psychologist |
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3.20 pm |
Working together |
| Dr Crispin Day, Consultant Clinical Child Psychologist; Professor Samuel Stein, Consultant in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry | |
3.40 pm |
Discussion |
4.10 pm |
Keynote address Ghetto Therapy: Psychosocial and educational packages of care for children and young people living in economic and psychological ghettos |
| Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founder, Kids Company | |
4.40 pm |
Closing remarks |
4.50 pm |
Close of meeting |
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Meeting ref: EVC03 CPD (Applied for) |
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