| 2005 Poster Presentations
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Friday, October 21, 2005 - 7:30 am to 6 pm
Saturday, October 22, 2005 from 7:30 am to 1:45 pm.
Session Code: P-1
Necessity Really Is The Mother Of Invention
Presenter(s): Alison Fletcher, OT - Langley Memorial Hospital - Langley, BC
Objective(s): Participants will gain knowledge about some new innovative ideas that have been developed to increase our clients independence and quality of life. Through the sharing of ideas it is hoped that other clients can be benefited and that other service providers will be encouraged to be creative too.
Target Audience:
Service Providers
Session Code: P-2
Folkstone Adult Family Care Homes
Presenter(s): Tafra Boudreau; Nikki Nagy, RN - FolkStone Adult Family Care Homes - Vancouver, BC
Objective(s): The purpose of this abstract is to provide information and demonstrate the effect to quality of life that a family care residential program can have for those living with brain injury. FolkStone Family Care Homes provides non-institutional residential care for adults ages 20+ who are unable to manage on their own.
Target Audience:
Service Providers
Survivors
Families
Lawyers
Medical
Anyone directly involved with someone who has a brain injury.
Session Code: P-3
Interprofessional Collaboration In The Brain Injury Program
Presenter(s): Jane Moore-Smithson, MSc - Hamilton Health Sciences - Hamilton, ON
Objective(s): The purpose of the work is to illustrate interprofessional collaborative practice in a hospital based, brain injury program. Participants will gain appreciation of interprofessional collaboration and enhance their understanding of collaborative patient-centred practice.
Target Audience:
Service Providers
Survivors
Families
Managers, Administrators
Session Code: P-4
Repealing The Patients Property Act: Modernizing BC's Laws For Court And Statutory Guardianship
Presenter(s): Jay Chalke, LLB - Public Guardian and Trustee - Vancouver, BC
Objective(s): Participants will learn of recent proposals to modernize court and statutory guardianship in BC and the status of those reforms.
Target Audience:
Service Providers
Families
Lawyers
Medical
Session Code: P-5
Client Centred Practice Redefined In An Acute Care Trauma Centre
Presenter(s): Lainie Cohen, M Ed - BIST - Toronto, ON;
Terry Landry, OT - St. Michael's Hospital - Toronto, ON
Objective(s): 1.Through the presentation of a case study, the participants will identify the barriers to family centred care in an acute care trauma centre. 2. The participants will learn about strategies being implemented in one ABI acute care program aimed at overcoming these barriers. 3 . Participants and presenters will have the opportunity to share their personal ideas and experiences around family participation during the early stages of crisis.
Target Audience:
Service Providers
Survivors
Families
Session Code: P-6
Should Post-TBI Epilepsy Be Considered A Syndrome Or A Disease? A Neurophysiological Model
Presenter(s): Clinton Landrock, BEng; Philippe Souvestre, MD - NeuroKinetics Health Services (BC) Inc - Vancouver, BC
Objective(s): Participants will gain appreciation for the medical strides made recently in the fields of neuroscience and medical neurophysiology in identifying underlying nervous dysfunctions and damage causing diseases and related syndromes such as Epilepsy. Professional participants will be able to incorporate this knowledge in their practices towards providing better diagnosis and prognosis in such cases which can lead to better treatment. Non-professional participants will be able to apply these recent discoveries towards seeking scientific alternative medical assessments and treatments for themselves or others.
Target Audience:
Service Providers
Survivors
Families
Lawyers
Medical
Research
Session Code: P-7
A Comparison Of Two Therapeutic Approaches For TBI Induced Learning Disabilities Which Using Neural
Presenter(s): Joan Alderdice, B Ed - Aspire Society - Langley, BC;
Philippe Souvestre, MD - NeuroKinetics Health Services (BC) Inc - Vancouver, BC
Objective(s): Participants will be able to identify the principles of neural plasticity and understand their application on the sensory-motor controls located in the brain. Neural plasticity should be considered as an important paradigm to include in the treatment of children diagnosed with learning disabilities. Participants will gain an appreciation for educational and medical approaches currently available that utilize this psychophysiological concept.
Target Audience:
Families
Lawyers
Medical
Educators
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