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DSMIG Members Meeting

DSMIG members meeting

Langdon Down Centre. Normansfield. Teddington. Middx.
May 27th 2005 9.30am - 4.30pm

Provisional Programme

9.30am

Arrival & coffee

10.00am - 11.30am

Roundtable clinical session - members only

Recent clinical queries handled by the DSMIG team.
Dr Liz Marder (DSMIG)
Members' problem cases - discussion

11.30am - 11.45am

Coffee

Open meeting*
Oral motor problems in children with Down's syndrome

11.45am - 12.05pm

Feeding difficulties around texture and swallowing in 2 year olds with Down's syndrome - video clips from research study
Dr Jennifer Dennis (DSMIG)

12.05pm - 12.45pm

Assessment and management of problems arising from oral motor dysfunction in children with Down's syndrome
"Symbol Team" speech and language advisors to the DSA

12.45pm - 2.00pm

Lunch, history and tours
Mrs Carol Boys (Chief Executive, DSA)
Professor Conor Ward (DSMIG)

2.00pm - 3.00pm

Dentomaxillo-facial treatment in children with Down's syndrome.
Professor Doutor Casimiro de Andrade (Director of Paediatric Dentistry, University of Oporto, Portugal)

3.00pm - 3.30pm

Oral motor function. Roundtable discussion.

Members only

3.30pm - 4.30pm

Research and business matters
(includes presentation on Bone Anchored Hearing Aids by Dr Patrick Sheehan, DSMIG)

4.30pm

Close meeting

* Healthcare professionals who are not members are welcome to attend the open meeting if places are available.

Registration fees (includes lunch etc)

  • £25 members
  • £35 non-members


Further information from Joyce Judson at info@dsmig.org.uk

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