Monday 14th September 2009, 09.30 - 16.30
Presenter: Ginny Paleg, DScPT

(Register here to attend the Course, fee: €120)

Course description

Evidence based therapy begins with knowing the studies that support your practice patterns. This fast paced session will intertwine the latest research on the effects of mobility on cognition with real case stories of toddlers who are learning to drive.

Pediatric seating and positioning will be briefly addressed as we discuss how spinal curves are formed, the consequences of inactivity, specific interventions to protect hips, and how common seating applications could deform a growing pelvis.

Specific protocols and strategies will be demonstrated using a variety of equipment. You will leave this session believing that toddlers, even (and especially!)those with the most severe levels of gross motor dysfunction (GMFCS IV and V) can and should be given access to power mobility.

Course objectives

• Participants will be able to describe two benefits of mobility to very young children.
• Participants will be able to implement the scheduled training program.
• Participants will be able to measure the success of each power mobility training session by using a precise
outcomes measure.
• Participants will have a specific algorithm for increasing the degree of difficulty of learning to drive.

Agenda

09.30 - 09.45
Welcome, orientation, introduction

09.45 - 11.00
Review of the current evidence for power mobility

11.00 - 11.15
Break

11.15 - 12.30
The effects of early mobility on cognition

12.30 - 13.30
Lunch

13.30 - 15.00
Essentials of seating the 0-7

15.00 - 15.15
Break

15.15 - 16.15
The latest evidence based training strategies and
outcome measures

16.15 - 16.30
Q and A

Ginny Paleg's biography