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Conference at a Glance
Thursday, Nov. 6 Friday, Nov. 7 Saturday, Nov. 8 Sunday, Nov. 9
12:30 12:30–2:00
12:30–2:00
Lunch Break
Lunch Break
1:00 Parent Networking Lunch
ICDL Graduate School Info
1:30 International Networking Lunch
Session
2:00 1:30–4:30 pm
Pre-Conference 2:00–3:30 2:00–3:30
2:30 Workshops Concurrent Seminars Concurrent Seminars
(additional fee)
3:00 See pages 3–4 See pages 6–7
See page 9
3:30 3:30–4:00—Poster Sessions 3:30–4:00—Poster Sessions
5:30
6:00
5:30–8:30 pm
6:30 Pre-Conference
Workshops
7:00 (additional fee)
8:30
All conference handoutswill be posted on the ICDL website. Your registration confirmation will contain a link to view and print the handouts.
Early Intervention: A Case Study R Integración Escolar y Problemas de It Takes a Village to Hold a Family
An occupational therapist presents a case study Comportamiento. Aplicando el modelo This case discussion will examine the
of a child seen through an early intervention DIR/Floortime en aulas escolares con experience of a non-mental health professional
program from age 8 months to age three and niños de habla hispana. trying to support a child’s development in the
again at a follow-up visit at age 5. The baby Este seminario abordará los desafíos que midst of a raging custody battle and a mother
under discussion has two older brothers on the niños con necesidades especiales enfrentan found unfit to care for her child. The case
autism spectrum and showed early symptoms al integrarse a una sala de clases y revisará highlights supporting team development and
suggestive of developing autism. Significant estrategias efectivas para abordar problemas working with parents who have mental health
family issues clouded the course of treatment. de comportamiento. El seminario estará challenges.
The case study follows the clinical reasoning dirigido a todos quienes estén vinculados a Michele Ricamoto, M.A., CCC/SLP, Speech
and self-reflective process of the unfolding niños con necesidades especiales asistiendo Language Pathologist, Chicago, IL and Ruby
occupational therapy treatment. al colegio, incluyendo profesores, otros Moyē Salazar, LCSW, BCD, Clinical Social
Beth Osten, M.S., OTR/L, Director, Beth profesionales del equipo de intervención y Worker, Salazar Associates, Clarks Summit, PA
Osten and Associates, Skokie, IL and Barbara padres. Las presentadoras abordarán las
Kalmanson, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and realidades de inclusión en países de habla
The Miracle Project
Special Educator, San Francisco, CA and Dean, hispana así como los desafíos culturales en las
salas de clases con niños latinos en Estados A presentation about “The Miracle Project” a
ICDL Graduate School
Unidos. Propuestas efectivas de evaluación e theatre and film arts program for children with
intervención para la educación escolar serán special needs and their typically developing
R Bench to Trench: Research Support for siblings and peers, and how to initiate a
analizadas desde el marco conceptual del
the DIR® Model musical/drama program for ASD kids in your
modelo DIR/Floortime.
This seminar will cover a variety of areas in community. The presenter will also share her
neuroscience, from animal and human evidence School Inclusion and Behavioral Problems. experience with Autism the Musical.
showing that relationships can influence Applying the DIR®/Floortime™ Model in Elaine Hall, Founder and Director of the Miracle
the outcome of genetic predisposition, to
Classroom Settings (A Seminar for Spanish Project
mathematical, neurophysiological, and clinical
Speakers)
work underlying the central role of emotional
engagement. This seminar will discuss the challenges that children º Prosody in Autism Spectrum
with special needs face when included in mainstream Disorders: Its’ Importance for Our Work
Josh Feder, M.D., Child and Family Psychiatrist, classrooms and will review effective strategies to With Children
Solana Beach, CA approach behavioral problems in this setting. The
presenters will address the reality of inclusion in A presentation of current, ongoing research on
Spanish speaking countries as well as the cultural expressive and receptive prosody in autism.
challenges in classroom settings where Spanish This session will describe what “prosody” is and
speaking children are included in the US. They will raise awareness of the role and difficulties that
also describe effective evaluation and intervention children on the spectrum have in understanding
strategies based on the DIR®/Floortime™ Model or others’ prosody and expressing themselves
conceptual framework. with appropriate prosody. Implications for DIR®
Cecelia Breinbauer, M.D., MPH, Child intervention will be discussed.
Psychiatrist and Managing Director, ICDL Lois Black, Ph.D., Associate Scientist, Center
Graduate School and Milagros Cordero, Ed.D., for Spoken Language Understanding, Oregon
OTR/L, Executive Director, ITT’s for Children, Health and Science University
Atlanta, GA
R Understanding Aggression from a
DIR® Perspective
(Note: This is part 2 of this Seminar.)
All conference handoutswill be posted on the ICDL website. Your registration confirmation will contain a link to view and print the handouts.
º Evaluating Outcomes: Challenges for Utilizing Principles of Motor Control to DIR® Therapeutic Interventions with
the DIR® Clinician Support Relationships between an Infant Siblings: A Panel Discussion
This seminar will discuss the challenges of and Mother within the DIR® Model This seminar will present the case of a sibling
evaluating outcomes of DIR® Intervention for the With only a one month window to help a baby with a special needs brother and will emphasize
DIR® clinician or educator offering services in with motor control challenges to organize and promoting developmental growth in siblings
clinics or schools including alternative research respond to a relationship with his pregnant using the DIR® model, based on what we have
designs. A range of pre and post measurements mother, this therapist integrated different learned from our work with siblings over many
related to DIR objectives will be described by the methods to develop his motor system to allow years. The panel will include presentations on
DIR® research panel including the FEAS, language beautiful reciprocity and engagement to emerge. early intervention work with siblings during
samples and “dialogue analyses” that measure infancy, later therapeutic work with older
“reciprocity” or “circles of communication”, Lois Gold, OTR/L, Occupational Therapist, siblings and their families and including siblings
and related current research. How parents feel Center for Pediatric Therapy, Miami, FL within DIR® treatment sessions.
about the changes in their relationships and and Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D., Clinical
Psychologist and Special Educator, San Diane Selinger, Ph.D., Psychologist, Glenview,
communication with their children, including tools
Francisco, CA and Dean, ICDL Graduate School IL, Rosemary White, OTR/L, Director, Pediatric
to measure parent satisfaction and stress, will
Physical and Occupational Therapy Services,
be suggested. Resources for further study and
3:30–4:00 pm Seattle, WA, and Sherry Cawn, M.A., CCC/
references will be provided.
SLP, Speech Language Pathologist/Early
Afternoon Break
Lois Black, Ph.D., Associate Scientist, Childhood Specialist, Northbrook, IL
Center for Spoken Language Understanding,
Poster Sessions: New Developments in
Oregon Health and Science University, Devin Facilitating the Development of Oral-
Casenhiser, Ph.D., Head of Research, and the DIR World!
Motor/Speech Skills within the DIR®
Sonia Mastrangelo, MEHRI, York University, Featuring new and innovative applications of
Framework
Richard Solomon, M.D., Medical Director, Ann the DIR®/Floortime™ Model in the U.S. and
Arbor Center for Developmental and Behavioral internationally in research, intervention and This seminar will provide specific information
Pediatrics, and Serena Wieder, Ph.D., Clinical training programs. about how facilitating regulation and
Psychologist and Director, DIR® Institute engagement inform the teaching of oral-motor/
For information on how you can apply to speech skills. Floortime will be discussed,
present your program, visit www.icdl.com.
º NIMH Clinical Protocols as will other therapeutic interventions such
as sensory integration, neurodevelopmental
A continuation of the morning discussion with treatment, music, cranial sacral, horns, bubbles,
further information on National Institute of Mental 4:00–5:30 pm stretches, the PROMPT and the Kaufman
Health (NIMH) clinical protocols as they relate to Speech Praxis Test. Demonstrations and videos
children with ASD. will be used to illustrate the techniques.
Concurrent Seminars
Sarah Spence, M.D., Staff Clinician, Pediatrics Diane Lewis, MA, CCC/SLP, Director
Attend the session
and Developmental Neuropsychiatry Branch, of Communication Enrichment Services,
that most interests you.
NIMH and Ricki Robinson, M.D., MPH, Bethesda, MD and Bobbi Wade, MAT, CCC/
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Keck School of SLP, SLP, Alexandria, VA
Medicine, University of Southern California 1 DIR® and Psychoanalysis
This seminar is for clinicians of various R Pennsylvania State Assessment Project
R Social and Interactive Groups disciplines who encounter emotional-mental
health challenges in families they work with. This seminar will provide participants an
This seminar will help parents and professionals opportunity to enhance and learn skills in
Historically, efforts to understand, conceptualize
learn how to facilitate socialization among children program development, staff training, community
and help families have taken different
with special needs. Adult facilitation in social service shifts and policy changes. The panel
perspectives and built upon each other as
and interactive groups encourages children to will discuss the components of program
theory and practice evolved. This seminar
have developmentally appropriate interactions development and policy shifts that lead to
will present clinical case material with faculty
with peers. Social groups allow children to services providing developmental-relationship
highlighting how traditional infant mental health
develop skills including sensory and emotional based care on local and state levels.
and psychoanalysis would approach these
regulation, initiation and engagement with peers,
challenges, and how DIR® differentiates these Ruby Moyē Salazar, L.C.S.W., B.C.D., Clinical
assertiveness, complex social problem solving,
perspectives and organizes our understanding Social Worker, Salazar Associates, Clarks
compromising, symbolic play, and building bridges
and work to optimize the development of Summit, PA, Bernard McBride, Director of
between logical ideas. Focus will be placed on
children and parents together and understand Behavioral Healthcare, Bucks County, PA
learning to recognize the delicate balance of active
our relationships with them. and Charlotte Collier, Ph.D., Clinical Lead,
facilitation versus passive facilitation, or when to
be more involved and when to let the children DIR Institute Faculty: Ron Balamuth, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State Assessment Project
problem-solve themselves. Using video clips and Gerry Costa, Ph.D., Gil Foley, Ed.D., Barbara
slides, this workshop will illustrate different tools Kalmanson, Ph.D., Molly Romer Witten,
and techniques for effective and positive adult Ph.D., and Serena Wieder, Ph.D.
facilitation in social groups.
Tim Bleecker and Jake Greenspan, Co-
Directors, DIR Support Services, Bethesda, MD
All conference handoutswill be posted on the ICDL website. Your registration confirmation will contain a link to view and print the handouts.
R Picture Books and Floortime young children with autism: The PLAY Project recovery can be quite effective with targeted
Home Consultation program.’ (Vol 11(3) 205- treatment and syndrome specific goals.
Picture books enrich children’s understanding
224). A review of the scientific literature on
about their world and their relationships Carole Samango-Sprouse, Ed.D., Director,
social-pragmatic (i.e. play-based) interventions
within it. This presentation will consider some Neurodevelopmental Diagnostic Center for
for young children with autism will also be
of the best picture books and discuss them Young Children, Associate Clinical Professor
presented.
from a developmental and psychodynamic in the Department of Pediatrics, George
perspective, looking closely at their themes and Richard Solomon, M.D., Medical Director, Ann Washington University, Washington, DC and
discussing their utility to children at different Arbor Center for Developmental and Behavioral Ricki Robinson, M.D., MPH, Clinical Professor
developmental levels. Pediatrics, Ann Arbor, MI of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine,
University of Southern California
Stephanie Pass, Ph.D., Psychologist, San
Francisco, CA and Rebecca Shahmoon º Pulling the Pieces Together: Praxis,
Shanok, LCSW, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Learning and Frontal Lobe Function R Sensory Motor and Regulatory
Infants, Children and Families, Jewish Board of in Young Children with ASD and other Treatment
Family and Children’s Services, NY, NY Neurogenetic Disorders This presentation will explore and integrate
Focusing on the intricate relationship between current thinking about sensory processing,
R The Play Project praxis, learning and frontal lobe function sensory reactivity, sensory modulation, and
This session will include an overview of the in infants and children with ASD and other the intersection between regulation and motor
PLAY Project Home Consultation model, a neurogenetic disorders, this seminar will planning with the DIR® model. Participants will
practical, parent training application of DIR®. It discuss how a common but unknown sex be exposed to the concepts of self-regulation
will also review the research evidence published chromosome disorder reveals the very early and co-regulation to help foster the ‘fit’ between
in the May 2007 issue of Autism, a peer signs of dyspraxia and frontal dysfunction as the child and the adult.
reviewed, scientific journal, in an article entitled, early as four months of age. This dysfunction Milagros Cordero, Ed.D., OTR/L, Executive
‘Pilot study of a parent training program for can affect all domains of development and Director, ITT’s for Children, Atlanta, GA
Preliminary
Conference A Bioethical Approach to Overcoming Problems with Behavior &
Program Aggression in the Education of Children with ASD
SUNday, November 9
THURSday, November 6
Cecilia Breinbauer, M.D., MPH Barbara Kalmanson, Ph.D. Carole Samango-Sprouse, Ed.D.
Child Psychiatrist, Potomac, MD, Managing Clinical Psychologist and Special Educator, San Director, Neurodevelopmental Diagnostic
Director, ICDL Graduate School Francisco, CA, Dean , ICDL Graduate School Center for Young Children, Associate Clinical
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, George
Devin Casenhiser, Ph.D. Richard Kelley, M.D., Ph.D. Washington University, Washington, DC
Head of Research, Milton and Ethel Harris Professor of Pediatrics,
Research Initiative (MEHRI), York University Johns Hopkins University Diane Selinger, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Glenview, IL
Sherri Cawn, M.A., CCC-SLP Diane Lewis, M.A., CCC/SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist/Early Childhood Director, Communication Enrichment Services, Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, LCSW, Ph.D.
Specialist, Northbrook, IL Bethesda, MD Director, Institute for Infants, Children and
Families, Jewish Board of Family and
Charlotte Collier, Ph.D. Beth Malow, M.D. Children’s Services, NY, NY
Clinical Director, Pennsylvania State Associate Professor of Neurology and Director,
Assessment Project Vanderbilt Sleep Center Stuart Shanker, D. Phil.
Professor of Philosophy and Psychology,
Milagros Cordero, Ed.D., OTR/L Cheryl Martinez York University
Executive Director, ITT’s for Children, Founder and Director, CCF Parent Advocacy
Atlanta, GA and Consulting, LLC, Hazlet, NJ Richard Solomon, M.D.
Medical Director, Ann Arbor Center for
Gerry Costa, Ph.D. Sonia Mastrangelo Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics,
Director, YCS Institute for Infant and Preschool Milton and Ethel Harris Research Initiative Ann Arbor, MI
Mental Health, East Orange, NJ (MEHRI), York University
Joshua Sparrow, M.D.
Diane Cullinane, M.D. Bernard McBride Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard
Developmental Pediatrician, Executive Director, Director of Behavioral Healthcare, University Medical School
Pasadena Child Development Associates, Inc., Bucks County, PA
CA Sarah Spence, M.D., Ph.D.
Karen McDowell Staff Clinician, Pediatrics and Developmental
Griff Doyle, Ph.D. Head Teacher, Celebrate the Children, Neuropsychiatry Branch, National Institute of
Clinical Psychologist, Bethesda, MD Wharton, NJ Mental Health, Bethesda, MD
Lisa de Faria, LCSW, BCD Glenn McGee, Ph.D. Jim Stieben, Ph.D.
Clinical Social Worker, Scotts Valley and Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Senior Research Scientist, Milton and Ethel
Monterey, CA Bioethics, Co-Director, States & Bioethics Harris Research Initiative (MEHRI), York
Program, Rockefeller Institute of Government, University
Elizabeth Dulin, M.Ed.
SUNY, Clinical Associate Professor of Health
Education Director, The Lionheart School,
Policy & Management, SUNY College of Public Gil Tippy, Psy.D.
Atlanta, GA Clinical Director, The Rebecca School,
Health
Brooklyn, NY
Joshua Feder, M.D.
John McGonigal, Ph.D
Child and Family Psychiatry, Solana Beach, CA
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Bobbi Wade, MAT, CCC/SLP
Rehabilitation Science and Technology, Speech Language Pathologist, Alexandria, VA
Gil Foley, Ed.D.
Associate Professor, Ferkauf Graduate School University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Rosemary White, OTR/L
of Psychology, Yeshiva University Program Director, Center for Autism and Director, Pediatric Physical and Occupational
Developmental Disorders, Western Therapy Services, Seattle, WA
Sima Gerber, Ph.D. Psychiatric Institute and Clinic
Professor of Communication Disorders, Serena Wieder, Ph.D.,
Queens College, CUNY Dave Nelson, LPC Associate Chair, ICDL, and Director, DIR®
Director, The Community School, Atlanta, GA Institute, CEO, ICDL Graduate School
Lois Gold, OTR/L Clinical Psychologist, Silver Spring, MD
Occupational Therapist, Center for Pediatric Patricia Novak, MPH, RD, CLE
Therapy, Miami, FL Pediatric Registered Dietician, Pasadena Child
Development Associates, Inc., CA
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1 2 t h A n n u a l I n t e r n a t i o n a l C ON F EREN C E
Presentations by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics Emeritus, Harvard University Medical School, Stanley Greenspan, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Behavioral Science and Pediatrics, George Washington University, Serena Wieder, Ph.D., Clinical Psychologist and CEO, ICDL Graduate School, Ricki Robinson, M.D., MPH,
Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine, USC, Glenn McGee, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, The American Journal of Bioethics, Stuart Shanker, D. Phil., Professor of
Philosophy and Psychology, York University, Joshua Sparrow, M.D., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard University Medical School, Richard Kelley, M.D., Professor of
Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Spence, M.D., National Institute of Mental Health, Beth Malow, M.D., Associate Professor of Neurology, Vanderbilt University and
others. Complete list of workshops and speakers inside.