2016 WA Clinical & Allied Health Forum – Program
Friday 27 May 2016
Bendat Parent and Community Centre, 36 Dodd Street, Wembley
9.00am Coffee and registration
9.15am-9.25am Welcome
Tomasi Room, Level 1
9.25am-9.45am The NDIS & Allied Health
Disability Services Commission
Tomasi Room, Level 1
9.45am-10.30am The NDIS Experience - Panel Discussion
Kate Winter, Kids r Kids, Mia Huntley, Disability Services Commission, Evan Williams, Therapy Focus, Liana Dolzadelli, Rocky Bay
10.30am-11.00am Morning tea
11.00am-11.30am Concurrent 1
The Holistic Approach in Early Intervention
Telethon Speech and Hearing
Transitioning of a social skills program into the new NDIS
Curtis Reddell, Brightwater Group
11.30am-12.00pm Concurrent 2
A Pilot Project to Improve the Function and Community Participation of Children and Adolescents with a Physical Disability
Jodie Kariyawasam, Paula Dyke, Wize Therapy
Falls among older adults with intellectual disability living in community based settings and their experiences of accessing falls prevention services
Portia Ho, Rocky Bay/University of Notre Dame
12.00pm-12.45pm Lunch
12.45pm-1.45pm Evidence Based Practice
Marina Ciccarelli, Curtin University
Tomasi Room, Level 1
1.45pm-2.15pm Concurrent 3
Road Crossing Fundamentals: much more than stop, look, listen
Celine Windsor, Therapy Focus
Concept Model for supporting people with disabilities and their carers to live at home
Camille Wakefield, TADWA
2.15pm-2.45pm Concurrent 4
Exploring sibling attitudes towards participation
when the younger sibling has a severe speech and language disability
Maryke Hansen, Senses Australia
Getting the Price right: The Experience of Delivering Behaviour Support Interventions in the NDIS
Mia Huntley, Rachel Kelly, Disability Services Commission
2.45pm-3.15pm Positive Behaviour Support: Much More than a Clinical Intervention!
Mike Cubbage, Disability Services Commission
The ROAM Project - developing new innovations in video conferencing to expand the delivery of remote rehabilitation services across regional WA
Amy Barrett-Lennard, Julia Devereux, Visability
3.15pm-3.45pm Thrive, Survive or Neither
Professor David Gilchrist, Curtin Not-for-Profit Initiative
3.45pm Close
6 May 2016