Scientific program

Keynote speakers

Hans-Peter Kapfhammer, Graz, Austria - The way of Sigmund Freud from child neurology to psychoanalysis
Mark Solms, Cape Town, South Africa - From Freud and Lurija to neuropsychoanalysis, via the clinical method
Bernard Dan, Brussels, Belgium - Current ethical issues in childhood disability
Thomas Stegemann, Vienna, Austria - Music and its effects
Simon Baron-Cohen, Cambridge, UK - Why is autism more common in males?

Session topics

Neuropsychoanalysis
Sleep related disorders in children with neurologic impairments
The former preterm baby
Minding the body – Lessons from neuropsychoanalysis for neurorehabilitation
Prevention of disability
Therapeutic concepts of hand motor function
Ethical Issues (Podium discussion)
Poverty and its implications on development
Verbal dyspraxia
Abuse of disabled children
Political paediatrics
Evidence based musictherapy

Sessions with parents

Traumatization of the disabled child
Living with a disabled child
What parents expect from professionals

Joint sessions

Should paediatric brain injury be treated as a chronic condition? - An international perspective (Joint Session with IPBIS)
Nutrition of the disabled child (Joint session with the AACPDM)
Early predictors of CP (Joint session with EPNS)