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Kidz up North 2009 Seminars
Throughout the day of the exhibitions there will be a timetable of Seminars covering a wide range of issues of interest to families with disabled children and those who work with them.
Seminars include:
Room 1 Mezzanine Level
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Seminar Details |
| Toileting issues |
10.30am
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11.15am |
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This seminar will cover identifying toilet training readiness and how to introduce basic toilet training programmes it will include an introduction to the range of products and equipment available. Staff will also be available throughout the day on the PromoCon stand to provide more information and answer any questions.
June Rogers MBE- Paediatric Continence Advisor, Team Director, PromoCon and Julie Vickerman, Specialist Occupational Therapist, PromoCon |
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| The Challenge of using outcome measures in special seating |
11.30am
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12.15pm |
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As clinicians who are skilled in special seating assessment processes, we use our assessment findings to prescribe the most suitable seating system for each individual. However, with an increasing requirement to demonstrate equipment effectiveness and value for money to funding authorities, it is important that our interventions also include evaluation strategies to demonstrate changes and outcomes achieved. This means we must learn to define our intervention in quantifiable ways and identify the outcomes to which it contributes.
Clare Wright, MClinRes, BSc (Hons)OT - Clinical Research Manager in Special Seating. |
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| Sound Foundations |
12.30pm
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1.15pm |
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Developing good auditory and sensory processing skills are a foundation for sensory integration, sequencing abilities, language, listening and learning as well as such areas as continence. Alan and Gill will explain the role of The Listening Program® for improvements in fundamental processing skills and provide an update of the ongoing study in Liverpool regarding developing continence skills through the use of The Listening Program.
Potential audience: Anyone working with children or adults with sensory processing difficulties affecting learning, listening, language, continence, balance, movement and other areas.
Alan Heath - Educational Consultant Trainer, Learning Solutions and Gill Pearl - Speech and Language Therapist, Project Development Worker, PromoCon |
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| Handling Children Safely |
1.30pm
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2.15pm |
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This session looks at the theory and practice of lifting and moving children, both from the professional and parental points of view.
Elizabeth Hallows- Physiotherapist, Moving and Handling Trainer
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| Including Children with Eating Difficulties |
2.30pm
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3.15pm |
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Eating is a social occasion and one of life's main pleasures for most of us. Meal times provide a valuable opportunity for communication and social interaction and are vital to enhance any young child's social and communication skills. When a child has complex needs it can be difficult not just for the child, but for the whole family. This session is based on Scope's food talk's pack and provides practical tips to include children with eating difficulties
Scope Early Years' Team |
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For healthcare professionals, certificates of attendance will be available to collect on the day to boost your CPD portfolio. |
Room 2 Mezzanine Level
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Seminar Details |
| Handling Children Safely |
10.30am
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11.15am |
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This session looks at the theory and practice of lifting and moving children, both from the professional and parental points of view.
Elizabeth Hallows- Physiotherapist, Moving and Handling Trainer |
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| Including Children in Sports Activities |
11.30am
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12.15pm |
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This session will provide you with a range of strategies and resources to include disabled children in sports activities
Professor Philip Vickerman - Faculty of Education Community and Leisure Liverpool John Moore University |
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| The facts about sleep and how to manage it |
12.30pm
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1.15pm |
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Sleep is a biological enigma we do not fully understand but know it is essential to the body, mind and general well being of the whole family. This talk is aimed at promoting good sleep hygiene, and to look at some basic strategies to use.
Moira Draper - Trained Sleep Counsellor. |
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| Toileting issues |
1.30pm
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2.15pm |
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This seminar will cover identifying toilet training readiness and how to introduce basic toilet training programmes and will include an introduction to the range of products and equipment available. Staff will also be available throughout the day on the PromoCon stand to provide more information and answer any questions.
June Rogers MBE- Paediatric Continence Advisor, Team Director, PromoCon and Julie Vickerman, Specialist Occupational Therapist, PromoCon |
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| The Challenge of using outcome measures in special seating |
2.30pm
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3.15pm |
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As clinicians who are skilled in special seating assessment processes, we use our assessment findings to prescribe the most suitable seating system for each individual. However, with an increasing requirement to demonstrate equipment effectiveness and value for money to funding authorities, it is important that our interventions also include evaluation strategies to demonstrate changes and outcomes achieved. This means we must learn to define our intervention in quantifiable ways and identify the outcomes to which it contributes.
Clare Wright, MClinRes, BSc (Hons)OT - Clinical Research Manager in Special Seating. |
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For healthcare professionals, certificates of attendance will be available to collect on the day to boost your CPD portfolio. |
Organisers: Disabled Living
Redbank House, 4 St Chad's Street
Cheetham, Manchester M8 8QA
Tel: 0161 214 5962
Fax: 0161 835 3591
www.disabledliving.co.uk |
