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Holiday closures: our outpatient programs will be closed from Dec. 25, 2024 to Jan. 1, 2025. Regular services resume January 2, 2024. Day program will be closed from Dec. 23 to Dec. 27, 2024 inclusive, and will be closed on Jan. 1, 2025. Orthotics and prosthetics will be available for urgent care.

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Agenda and Speaker Abstracts

TimePresentations
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.Breakfast Mingle and Poster Viewing
9:00 – 9:30 a.m.

Welcome and BRI Update

Presenter: Virginia Wright

9:30 – 10:10 a.m.

Evaluation of Care

Presenter: Evdokia Anagnostou: ASD: Where is the lesion, what is the lesion and where do we go from here?

Presenter: Falisha Karpati: Gait Outcomes Assessment List (GOAL): Development of a patient priority-centered outcome measure for children with ambulatory cerebral palsy

10:10 – 10:25 a.m.Coffee Break
10:25 – 11:05 a.m.

Innovation and Development

Presenter: Jan Andrysek: Artificial limbs for a global need: the LC Knee™ project

Presenter: Dominik Wyss: Advancing artificial knee joint control mechanisms: achieving high performance using simple machines

11:05 - 11:45 a.m.

Evidence to Care

Introduction:
Shauna Kingsnorth and Sonya Corkum
A series of brief presentations with a focus on key messages will showcase research projects exploring barriers to evidence-informed practice, systematic reviews of health interventions, and clinical practice guideline development and implementation in this new segment targeting the knowledge-to-action framework

Presenters:

Ashley Edwards: A systematic review of disability awareness interventions for children and youth

James Christensen: Current opinions and implementation rates of Canadian prosthetic and orthotic clinicians on evidence based practice

Tessa Gresley-Jones and Lauren Switzer: A Transfer of Knowledge from Research to Practice: Improving Bone Health Among Children with Physical Disabilities/Restrictions

11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.Lunch (dessert served outside the Grocery Foundation Resource Centre)
12:45 – 1:45 p.m.Poster Session - view poster abstracts
1:45 – 2:30 p.m.

Participation and Inclusion

Presenter: Barb Gibson: Rethinking Independence and Dependence: The Interconnectedness of Persons and Assistive Technologies

Presenter: Coralee McLaren: Kindergarten kids in motion: Rethinking Inclusive classrooms for optimal learning

2:30 - 2:45 p.m.Coffee Break
2:45 – 3:30 p.m.

The Mickey Milner International Professorship
Lecture

Keynote Speaker: Professor Rob Imrie, Department of Geography, King's College London

Disability and an evaluation of the social relations of research production

3:30 – 3:45 p.m.Closing Remarks
3:45 – 5:30 p.m.Wine and Cheese Reception
Grocery Foundation Resource Centre