Date: Sunday 4 August 2024
Venue: UIC Disability Health Social Policy building 1640 W Roosevelt.
Workshops were conducted in half-day formats and included the presentation of theory (the evidence base) and opportunities for activities and/or discussion among participants. Importantly, the content featured innovative ideas that have practical application, with participants gaining both knowledge and skills.
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Workshop 1
The development of a new personalised intervention for aggressive challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disabilities
09:00am - 12:30pm
The workshop will cover the development of the Personalised Treatment Packages For Adults With Learning Disabilities Who Display Aggression In Community Settings (PETAL). It will describe the findings from the feasibility study as well as new insights into aggressive challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disabilities
Organisers:
Prof Angela Hassiotis
UCL Division of Psychiatry
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Workshop 2
Person-centred support for promoting engagement, social interaction, and community involvement: an app for tailoring staff support to individual needs
9.30am - 12:30pm
A unique opportunity to learn and interact with a digital application for harmonising person-centred staff support to promote engagement, social interaction, and community involvement among persons with intellectual disabilities living in small community homes.
Organiser:
Sandy Toogood
Bangor University
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Workshop 3
How to Make Your Research More Inclusive: a Workshop by Inclusive Research Teams
09:00 am - 12:30 pm
This workshop focuses on people with IDD in armed conflict zones. It reviews the available data for people and presents a possible engagement model developed from an IASSIDD webinar. The workshop is interactive – it will feature recordings from people who have lived through periods of armed conflicts and a scholar who has research experience. Participants will be invited to share their views and ideas on future research projects and what proactive strategies might improve people lives who are caught in conflict.
Organiser:
David Treanor
University Associate, University of Tasmania
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Workshop 4
People with Intellectual Disability Talking About, Understanding and Planning for End of Life
09:00 am - 12:30 pm
Want to help people with intellectual disability understand and plan for dying and death but don’t know what to do or what to say? Like to learn about the latest multimedia end-of-life resources designed for people with intellectual disability? This workshop will give you the knowledge, skills, resources and confidence to help people with intellectual disability understand and plan for end of life.
Organisers:
Roger Stancliffe
Nicola McKenzie
Brigit Mirfin-Veitch
University of Sydney
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Workshop 5
Journey towards an updated Position Paper about Parents with Disabilities and their families
1:30pm - 5:00pm
The field of parents and parenting with intellectual disability has grown over the last few decades, both in breadth and depth of research and practice knowledge. Drs Aunos and McConnell will facilitate an evidence-informed discussion (roundtable/workshop format) with researchers, practitioners and advocates within the parenting SIRG of what we have learned from research and practice is the last 15 years and how we can move the field forward, keeping in mind both practice and policy implications
Organisers:
Marjorie Aunos
David McConnell
Parents and Parenting with Intellectual and Developmental Disability SIRG
University of Alberta
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Workshop 7
The Person Experiences Interview Survey (PEIS) for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Mental Health Service Experiences
1.30pm - 5:00pm
The development of a Patient Reported Experience Measure of mental health service experiences for individuals with IDD will be described including background, development, analysis, and results. The PEIS fills a long overdue gap in inclusive mental health service delivery for people with IDD as an interview tool designed for input from the person with IDD about mental health service experiences. The PEIS was codesigned with people with lived experience
Organisers:
Joan Beasley
Luke Kalb
Jessica Kramer
Andrea Caoili
Tawara Goode
Micah Peace
Andrea Caoili
University of New Hampshire, Johns Hopkins University, University of Florida, Georgetown University