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HWDD 2017 DAY 1 – November 29, 2017
| Session | Time | Description | |||||
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| Arrival | 7:00am | Registration & Breakfast | |||||
| Intro A | 8:30am | Welcome/Intro – Emcees Daniel Beimers and David Hill | |||||
| Plenary A | 8:45am | Put Your Air Mask On First: Reducing stress and promoting positive adult development in parents of children with developmental disabilities; presented by Elisabeth Dykens | |||||
| Break | 10:00am | Time to view Posters & Exhibits | |||||
| Workshop Session A | 10:30am | W1 Interprofessional Bio-behavioural Assessment and Treatment of Mental Health Symptoms in youth with ASD and ID Alvin Loh; Nicole Aliya Rahim; Anupam Thakur |
W2 Educating the Physicians and Health Care Professionals of Tomorrow; A Program model of the Developmental Disabilities Program in the Department of Psychiatry at the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry at Western University Sarah O’Flanagan |
W3 Flexible Assertive Community Treatment (FACTT-DD) as an Innovative Interprofessional Mental Health Model for persons with Dual Diagnosis Susan Farrell; Kate Baker |
W4 When walking in my shoes beats walking beside me: Mothers talk about taking an active role in developing and delivering interventions to other families Amy Baskin; Kelly Bryce; Lee Steel; Sarah Waldman, Edna Elaine Obillo |
W5 Consensus Guidelines for the Care, Support and Treatment of People with a Developmental Disability and Challenging Behaviours Tara Hyatt; Jennifer Altosaar; Lisa Holmes; Jo-Ann Trahan |
W6 Supporting Individuals with Complex Medical Needs in Community Phemie Guttin; Victoria Webber |
| Lunch | 11:30am | Time to view Posters & Exhibits; Lunch served at 12:00pm | |||||
| Workshop Session B | 1:00pm | W7 An Introduction to the Report of the Ontario Association for Behaviour Analysis’ (ONTABA) “Evidence-based Practices for Individuals with ASD: Recommendations for Caregivers, Practitioners, and Policy Makers” Stasia Rossinsky; Adrienne Perry; Julie Koudys |
W8 Developing an in-depth case study for health professional education: A Community – University Partnership Lynn Cockburn; Sandee Moore; Denise DuBois |
W9 Conscious Care and Support: a complementary model of support to enhance best practices in Ontario Peter Marks |
W10 Grieving Together – A Peer Support Model Shallen Jackson; Melissa Reinhardt; Donna Lee |
W11 What’s a Behavioral Phenotype? Lessons from Prader-Willi, Williams and Down syndromes Elisabeth Dykens |
W12 Improving primary care for adults with developmental disabilities: Tips from the front-line Janet Durbin; Ian Casson; Laurie Green |
| Break | 2:00pm | Time to move between workshop rooms | |||||
| Workshop Session C | 2:15pm | W13 Evidence-Based Parent Training Intervention To Teach Safety Skills to Children with Autism Sarah Kupferschmidt |
W14 Innovative learning and teaching strategies in training the next generation of psychiatrists: learners’ perspective on developmental disability education Chien-Shun Chen; Matt Boyle; Amanda Sawyer; Natasha Fernandes; Alon Coret; Muhammad Irfan Jiwa; Alicia Thatcher |
W15 Practical outcomes of a needs assessment examining the priority health and social needs of adults with developmental disabilities in complex situations Angie Gonzales; Kristin Dobranowski; Carly McMorris; Johanna Lake; Yona Lunsky; Robert Balogh |
W16 Supported decision-making in practice for people with profound intellectual disabilities Michael Bach |
W17 Election’s Canada’s Accessibility Services: How we are making voting more accessible for Canadians of all abilities Juan Melara-Pineda |
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| Break | 3:15pm | Time to move between workshop rooms | |||||
| Workshop Session D | 3:30pm | W18 Speech Language Pathology Services for People with DD – We Do More than You Think! Heather Morgan; Sarah Dennis; Joanne St-Denis |
W19 You Want Us To Organize What?!?!? A Panel on Developing Effective Staff Education Events Brenda Quinlan; Jo Anne Nugent; Kerry Boyd; Megan Primeau |
W20 When Adults with Developmental Disabilities go to the Psychiatric Emergency Department: Who goes and how can we help? Natasha Fernandes; Amanda Sawyer; Anna Durbin; Yona Lunsky |
W21 It takes a village to raise a child: A discussion of pregnancy, prenatal care, and parenting in individuals with intellectual disabilities Jennifer Allen; Deborah Bluestein; Alma Disha; Janet Vogt |
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| Depart | 4:30pm | Day is over | |||||