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EACD Brussels 2010
European Academy of Childhood Disability
Dear friends and colleagues,
We are very pleased to invite you to attend the 22nd Annual Meeting of the European Academy of Childhood Disability (EACD), which will be held in Brussels on 27-29 May 2010 under the auspices of Her Royal Highness Princess Astrid of Belgium and the City of Brussels.
The EACD is an academic, multidisciplinary association of professionals working with children with disabilities throughout Europe. Its members include paediatricians, paediatric neurologists, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and communication therapists, psychologists, rehabilitation physicians, orthopaedic surgeons, orthotists, nurses, dieticians, social workers and special-needs teachers. The EACD aims to ensure the development of high quality research and teaching in the field of childhood disability and improve the care of these children across Europe.
The theme of the Brussels 2010 EACD Meeting is "MEASURES OF PROGRESS - Evaluating management outcome in childhood disability". Major conceptual and technological advances in the management of children with neurodevelopmental disability have brought about new challenges with respect to evaluation, management and research in habilitation outcomes. The Brussels 2010 EACD Meeting will provide an occasion for updating and clarifying the multidimensional model of disablement as it specifically applies to management of children with neurodevelopmental disability. It will reemphasise the need for reliable measurement of management outcomes through new findings, from functional imaging to quality of life assessment.
The meeting will comprise plenary and thematic parallel sessions, workshops and topical teaching courses. There will be sessions organised together with the European Paediatric Neurology Society (EPNS) and a session organized by the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine (AACPDM). There will be a special workshop dedicated to European Union policy making for the benefit of children with disabilities and a workshop on parenting the child with disabilities organised by parents for parents. Keynote lectures and thematic sessions will address quality of life, nutrition, communication, behaviour, cognition, education, early intervention, evidence-based practice, multidisciplinarity, selected disorders, stem cell research and translational research. There will also be a mini-film festival showing short-feature films on the theme of childhood disability.
The programme promises to be varied and educational. Participants are invited to contribute to the quality of the programme by submitting abstracts for presenting their work at a thematic session or as a poster, or for giving a topical instructional course.
On the day before the Brussels 2010 EACD Meeting, a national symposium on habilitation in paediatric neurology will be held (in French and Dutch).
The Brussels 2010 EACD Meeting will take place on the Erasmus campus of the Université Libre de Bruxelles, which is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year. The Mayor of Brussels, Freddy Thielemans, will welcome us at an opening reception in the magnificent Salle Gothique at the Grand Place, which is arguably the most beautiful square in the world.
We look forward to seeing you in Brussels.
On behalf of the organising committee,
Prof. Bernard Dan
President of EACD 2010
The deadline for proposals for instructional courses is 1 December 2009, to be submitted through www.eacd2010.com
Abstract submission only through www.eacd2010.com and before 1 February 2010.
Feature film submission: see www.eacd2010.com, deadline 15 February 2010.
For any queries contact: secretariat@eacd2010.com