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Perspectives in Care Symposium

About the Symposium
The symposium increased understanding of Cerebral palsy with its concomitant disabilities and offered practitioners tools for working with individuals and families based on the child's potential for optimum functional abilities. 


Program Details
Keynote Speaker Dr. Janice Brunstrom-Hernandez  is a Pediatric Neurologist and founder and director of the Pediatric Neurology Cerebral Palsy Center at Washington University School of Medicine and St. Louis Children's Hospital. 


Program Materials: 

• Print the program agenda including all 14 teaching sessions with speaker objectives.  
• CP, What it is and What its not at LaRabida, Lisa Thornton
• Long-Term Management of the Child with Cerebral Palsy, Paula Jaudes
• Advances for Children with Cerebral Palsy, Michael Msall
• Assessing Cognition in Severe Motor Delay, Michael Nelson
• Outcomes in the Intensive Care Nursery ,Michael Msall
• Functional Vision, Michael Zost
• Phonation, Therese McDermott-Winter
• Constraint Induced Movement Therapy, Audrey Yasukawa
• Overview of Mayors Office for People with Disabilities, Karen Tamley
• Growth-Attenuation Therapy: Principles for Practice, Peter Smith  
• Growth-Attenuation Statement from AAIDD, Peter Smith
• Investigative Report Regarding the "Ashley Treatment", Peter Smith"
• Learn more about the special lunch-time feature.
• For more information about Cerebral palsy. 
• Read the press.