

Fri, 23 Aug
|Webinar
Early Detection and Early Intervention for Cerebral Palsy
This training is designed to equip health care professionals with necessary knowledge and skills required to employ early screening tools.
TIME & LOCATION
23 Aug 2024, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm AEST
Webinar
ABOUT THE TRAINING
WHO SHOULD JOIN
Doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists/speech pathologists.
TRAINING OBJECTIVE
This training is designed to equip health care professionals with necessary knowledge and skills required to employ early screening tools, including General Movement Assessment and Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (HINE), to identify infants who are at risk of developing cerebral palsy (CP) and apply evidence-based early intervention strategies to improve the health and well-being of the children diagnosed as high-risk for CP or highly predictive of CP.
TRAINING CONTENTS
- Evidence supporting the use of early detection tools
- Basics of General Movement Assessment (GMA) and how to record videos for GMA
- HINE assessment in infants at high risk of cerebral palsy
- Evidence on intervention strategies for infants and your children with cerebral palsy
- Goal setting using Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM)
- Early intervention strategies (e.g. Goal Directed Training (GDT), Game Activity Motor Enrichment (GAME), Constraint Induced Movement Therapy (CIMT), Bimanual Therapy (BT), Home Program (HP)
- International practice guidelines for children with CP
LEARNING OUTCOMES
At the end of the training session, the participants will be able to-
- Learn about evidenced-based early detection tools (e.g. GMA and HINE)
- Record videos of movement of infants at high-risk of developing CP for GMA
- Complete HINE assessment for high-risk infants and interpret the HINE scores
- Work with primary caregivers to set goals for intervention planning
- Apply evidence-based early intervention strategies including GDT, GAME, CIMT, BT and HP following the international practice guidelines
TRAINING FACILITATOR
A/Prof Cathy Morgan, PhD Principal Research Fellow, Program Lead Early Detection & Early Intervention, Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Institute, Australia.
PRE-TRAINING READING MATERIALS
- Early, Accurate Diagnosis and Early Intervention in Cerebral Palsy: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment - PubMed (nih.gov)
- Microsoft Word - Hammersmith Infant Neurological Examination (HINE) description update_13.02.2023FINAL.docx (mackeith.co.uk)
- Goal-directed training: linking theories of treatment to clinical practice for improved functional activities in daily life - M Mastos, K Miller, A C Eliasson, C Imms, 2007 (sagepub.com)
- GAME (Goals - Activity - Motor Enrichment): protocol of a single blind randomised controlled trial of motor training, parent education and environmental enrichment for infants at high risk of cerebral palsy (nih.gov)
- Efficacy of Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy for Children With Cerebral Palsy With Asymmetric Motor Impairment | Pediatrics | American Academy of Pediatrics (aap.org)
- Effects of constraint‐induced movement therapy in young children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy: an adapted model (wiley.com)
- Occupational Therapy Home Programs for Cerebral Palsy: Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial | Pediatrics | American Academy of Pediatrics (aap.org)
- State of the Evidence Traffic Lights 2019: Systematic Review of Interventions for Preventing and Treating Children with Cerebral Palsy | Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports (springer.com)
- International clinical practice guideline: Interventions to improve physical function for children and young people with cerebral palsy - AusACPDM