Ang Therapist

Everyone is invited to attend the seminar on Normal Development for Assessment and Management of Cerebral Palsy on March 30, 2008 (Sunday). Tentative venue is at the CME Auditorium, University of Santo Tomas (to be confirmed).

About the Speaker
Since 2005, Ms. Deanna Kathrina Z. Maranion has conducted lectures, seminar-workshops and short courses about the Bobath Concept to therapists, physicians, teachers and special education specialists, nurses and caregivers, parents in clinics, hospitals and academic institutions in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. She has also assisted in the Bobath Introductory Course in Jakarta, Indonesia in August 2007. Ms. Maranion completed the Bobath Pediatric Basic Course in South Korea in 2005. She has been in pediatric PT practice since 1998.

Objectives

• Analyze normal motor development and skills acquisition during the first two years of life.
• Discuss relevant events in the maturation of the nervous system during the first two years of life.
• Discuss atypical development based on the spatiotemporal adapation theory.
• Discuss applications of knowledge and observations of normal development in treatment and assessment of sensorimotor problems particularly those seen in cerebral palsy.

Schedule of Activities
8:30- 9:00 Registration
9:00-12:00 Normal Development in the First Year (Sensorimotor, Neurological, Biomechanical); Atypical Development and Spatiotemporal Stress and Dysfunction
12:00- 13:00 Lunch Break
13:30- 16:00 Normal Development in Treatment of Cerebral Palsy; Problem Solving: Treatment Ideas, Rationale, and Basis in Normal Development
16:00- 16:30 Q&A; BAG-Philippines Announcements

Seminar Fee
Pre-registration (Jan 29-Feb 15): 1, 000 PhP
On-site registration: 1, 200 PhP

Registration fee includes 2 snacks and handouts for all lectures.

For reservations and inquiries, text or call BAG-Philippines at (63) 9177336409. You may also send the organizers an e-mail at bobath_philippines@yahoo.com or visit their webpage at http://bobathphilippines.multiply.com.

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