3rd Annual Conference of the UK PDA Contact Group
in conjunction with
The Early Years Diagnostic Centre

Monday, 11th March 2002 (all day)
Postgraduate Medical Centre, City Hospital, Hucknall Road, Nottingham

Draft Programme

The conference will look at different aspects of living/working with children and young adults with Pathological Demand Avoidance, to include strategies and education.

• Helen Colwell (Parent): day-to-day living with four children with disabilities: 2 with PDA, 1 with Autism and 1 with ADHD
• Professor Elizabeth Newson (Consultant in Developmental Psychology, The Early Years Diagnostic Centre): strategies for handling specific situations
• Jenny Coates (Headteacher, Early Years Centre, Sutherland House School): working with a boy with PDA from the age of 5 progressing through to integration in to mainstream at the age of 7
• Don Kent (Headteacher) or John West (Deputy Head, St. John's School, Seaford): Success in working with a boy with PDA from the age of 12 to age 14 who has now transferred to the Brighton site
• Terri Hall (Chartered Psychologist, Psychology Partnership)
• Charlotte Graham-White (Early Years Diagnostic Centre): Social Skills checklist - discriminating between PDA and Aspergers syndrome
• Dr Linda Soutter (Community Paediatrician): ADHD or PDA? A difficult problem
• Jim Spring (Parent)

Professionals £45 Parents £20