PROGRAM

DAY 1

Saturday 1 July
Welcome and Opening address
Keynote address-Phillip Strain PhD *
Remediation and Prevention of Aggression

AM Concurrent sessions:
Supporting children and families
Early childhood services: successes and challenges
Promoting language and literacy development
Music therapy for communication and social development

Early PM Concurrent sessions
Planning positive interventions for challenging behaviours
Marketing your services and building teams across services
Ripper ideas for little kids: The use of technology to support young children with special needs
Autistic spectrum disorder

Mid PM Concurrent sessions
Planning positive interventions for challenging behaviours (cont'd)
Para-professionals working as a team to support the child with a disability
Implementing a program for children with challenges.Do you see what I see?
Severe communication impairment and the use of Facilitated Communication

6.30pm Conference dinner. Theme: Tropical Queensland. Note: Attendance at the Conference Dinner will be restricted.

DAY 2

Sunday 2 July

Public Policy: Necessary but not sufficient
Intervention Matters: Panel Discussion

Session One (four concurrent sessions)
Inclusive practices: the appropriate level of support
Strategies for early intervention
Positive behavioural support in the early years
Early intervention and parenting-peaks and pitfalls.

Session two (four concurrent sessions)
Planning positive interventions for challenging behaviours
From conception to the classroom. Music Therapy: a VERY early intervention
Behaviour management and child empowerment: setting limits and setting them free
Facing the challenge-families living with disability

Session three (four concurrent sessions)
Planning positive interventions for challenging behaviours
Teaming to support children with hearing impairment and children with eating and drinking disorders and
indigenous children from non-English speaking backgrounds
Behavioural change: making the journey together
Communicating with parents

DAY 3

Registration
Official Address
Working Together: an early childhood intervention case study
Extending the Partnership: supporting practice through research collaboration

AM Session one (four concurrent sessions)
Behaviour state assessment of students with high support needs in early childhood intervention programs
Autism: Early intervention studies
Creating an environment within a regular early childhood setting which welcomes & supports a child with Down Syndrome
Assesment and early intervention: a multidisciplinary approach

PM Session two (four concurrent sessions)
Empowering families
Teaming to support children with vision impairment
Multiple Intelligences. Four layer smart pizza: a whole-brain balanced diet - a 'fat' approach to program planning
Inclusive programs in early childcare settings
Reflection and closing address

Up-To-Date Programme

Will be available at the commencement of the Conference