2016 Programme

Compère and day’s discussant, Prof. Phil Rowe (Rehabilitation Science)

Technology & Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

Thursday 2^nd June 2016

9:30                 Registration and Coffee.

10:00               Welcome and opening remarks.

10:05               Movement disruption in autism spectrum disorder.
                        Dr. Jonathan Delafield-Butt (University of Strathclyde).

10:30               Imagination for movement in psychological development and learning, and in autism.
                        Prof. Colwyn Trevarthen (University of Edinburgh).

11:00               Discussion.

11:15               Coffee break.

12:00               Clinical observations of everyday movement disorder in autism.
                        Sharon Campbell (Scottish Centre for Autism).

12:30               Discussion.

12:40               Lunch.

13:40               New data on the autism movement disorder.
                        Prof. Liz Torres (Rutgers University).

14:30               Discussion.

14:40               Coffee break.

15:20               Movement disruptions in autism from infancy to early childhood, perspectives from neuropsychiatry.
                        Prof. Filippo Muratori (University of Pisa).

15:40               Panel discussion – sharing clinical and professional experience with movement disorder in autism.

16:00               Day’s Summary.
                         Dr. Jonathan Delafield-Butt (University of Strathclyde).

16:10               End.