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European EACD

Posted By: Philippe EVRARD, MD
Date: Thursday, 27 January 2005, at 2:36 a.m.

January 25, 2005

Dear Colleague,
I wish to invite you to participate in the next congress of the European Academy of Childhood Disability [EACD] which will be held in Monaco, November 19-22, 2005. It will be a crucial event for professionals in all aspects of diagnosis, treatment and prevention of handicaps. It will be also a unique opportunity for multidisciplinary exchanges between physicians involved in medicine of handicapped persons, speech therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists, psychomotor therapists, research scholars, public health specialists. New methods, research reports, advanced teaching sessions, multidisciplinary exchanges are the main focus of the sessions. Through satellite symposia and exhibitions, associations of parents and patients, associations of nurses and social workers will be other partners of this event for the care of handicapped children.
Detailed information concerning this congress is available on the website http://www.eacd2005.org . I summarize the scientific program:

MAIN CONGRESS

Themes of the lectures, sessions, seminars and round tables:
- Central nervous system, movements, cognition and behaviour
- Dyslexia
- Epileptic handicaps
- Cerebral palsy
- Rehabilitation of adolescents
- Medications for handicapped persons
- Pain of handicapped children
- Attention deficit disorders
- Neuromuscular diseases
- Sleep of handicapped children
- Ethical aspects in care and prevention
- Autism
- Transition into adulthood
- Funding and operating care for handicapped children in Western Europe
- Trends of prevention and care for handicapped children in France

Courses
- New methods in motor treatments
- New methods in speech therapy
- Molecular genetics for non-geneticists
- Management of feeding difficulties of handicapped children

SATELLITE SYMPOSIA

- Head traumas
- EPNS [European Pediatric Neurology Society] (to be confirmed)
- Associations of parents
- AMADE (to be confirmed)
- Nurses in pediatric rehabilitation and pediatric neurology
- National and regional chapters of medical, scientific, and non medical professional societies (physiotherapy, speech therapists, psychologists, psychomotor therapy, logopedists, )
- Lawyers specializing in handicaps
- Neuropsychology revisited on the basis of progress in developmental neuroscience
- Meeting of the IFRH [Institut Fédératif Français de Recherche sur le Handicap], a branch of the INSERM (to be confirmed)

I serve as President of the EACD congress. The Vice-President of the EACD congress is Professor Marc Tardieu, from Bicêtre. Do not hesitate to be in touch with us for any question concerning the scientific program ( philippe.evrard@rdb.ap-hop-paris.fr or marc.tardieu@bct.ap-hop-paris.fr ).
Comprehensive organizational information is available on the website. Any additional question could be submitted to Mrs. Teppati ( Lucia.Teppati@publicreations.com ) or to Mr. Lionel Draon ( lionel.draon@pediatric-neurology-paris.org ).
We suggest that you register as soon as possible for three main reasons:
- To benefit from the best hotel rates. The available low cost rooms will be confirmed on the basis of first booked, first served.
- To benefit from the discount for early registration.
- To help the organizers of the congress.

I you wish to make an oral or poster presentation, please submit your abstracts as soon as possible and in any case before May 1st, 2005.

With best regards.
Sincerely yours,

Philippe EVRARD, MD
Professor, University Paris 7 Denis-Diderot (Xavier-Bichat Medical School)
Chief of the Service of Pediatric Neurology and Metabolic Diseases,
Hôpital Robert-Debré (Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris