Registration is now open for the Combined 73rd AACPDM Annual and 2nd IAACD Triannual Meeting September 18-21, 2019, in Annaheim, California! To learn more about available instructional courses, networking events, accommodations, travel arrangements and to register for this year's meeting, visit the AACPDM Annual Meeting page. See you in Anaheim!
Abstract submissions for 10th Biennial AusACPDM Conference 2020 are now open and close 5pm AEST 29 July 2019. Submissions are being sought for free papers, posters (paper and electronic), workshops, breakfast sessions and PhD platform presentations on the following topics:
Conditions including, but not limited to:
Submission Themes:
We welcome submissions that study:
Visit the conference website for further information.
New Position Statement from AAP on Transporting Children with Special Healthcare Needs. This may be a helpful resource when advocating for child passenger safety programs, individualized educational programs, acquisition of appropriate equipment and safety awareness. To support members advocating for patients with cerebral palsy and developmental disabilities and their families, the advocacy committee would like to share information that may be helpful in those efforts. This information was not developed by AACPDM and they have no official position on it.
Read it here: https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/143/5/e20190724.
CP NOW, a non-profit focused on cerebral palsy education and research, is sponsoring a $30,000 Request for Applications (RFA) in conjunction with the Cerebral Palsy Research Network (CPRN). The RFA is open to investigators that are either members of CPRN or outside of the network. CP NOW and CPRN seek to fund research that will advance key questions in the Research CP patient-centered research agenda using CPRN’s resources, e.g., sites, investigators, and CP registries. Interested investigators can download the complete RFA here.
On February 15th, the House passed legislation that would amend the Americans With Disabilities Act over objections from disability rights advocates and Democratic leaders, who warned that the bill would remove incentives for businesses to comply with the law.
For at least the next 10 years, families in the US Children’s Health Insurance Program shouldn’t have to worry about the money running out again.
Senate leaders announced on Wednesday that, as part of a broader budget agreement, they would lengthen the six-year funding extension for CHIP that Congress passed last month to a full 10 years of funding for the program.
Read more HERE.
The AACPDM 72nd Annual Meeting in Cincinnati, Ohio was a tremendous success! If you were unable to attend, we now have the fabulous general session videos online. If you did attend, feel free to refresh your memory and view the presentations once again.
AACPDM is part of Amazon.com's Smile program. Amazon Smile allows us to receive a percentage of the money you spend on Amazon Smile, on any purchases that you make.
To set up AACPDM as your charity, please visit Amazon Smile. Just under the search bar, there is a link to choose your charity. Click on that and search for "AACPDM", then select us. If you've bookmarked Amazon.com, please consider replacing that bookmark with this URL: http://smile.amazon.com, after choosing AACPDM as your donation selection.
Please remember - you'll have to access Amazon through the Amazon Smile page at http://smile.amazon.com. If you go to Amazon.com, a percentage is not donated!
Introducing the new iOS app for Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology
