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Thursday, October 17, 20136:00 am-6:45 am Get Fit! Zumba®Location: Upper level lobby areaDitch the workout and join the party! Zumba is a dynamic,danced-based class set to the fusion of Latin and international music featuringaerobic fitness.7:00 am–7:50 am Continental BreakfastLocation: Exhibit Hall, Ballroom A & BTHURsday, October 177:00 am–7:50 am Breakfast Seminars 1-6BRK 1 - FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE EFFECTIVENESS OF ROBOTIC-ASSISTED THERAPIES IN CHILDREN WITH CEREBRALPALSYLocation: 201 C&DAuthors: Sebastian Schroeder, MD; Steffen Berweck, PD MD; Deborah Gaebler-Spira, MD; Florian Heinen, MD; Andreas Meyer Heim, PD MDLevel: BasicPurpose: To demonstrate and discuss interactions between specific patient characteristics, therapy settings, and adequate outcomemeasures for planning and assessing robotic-assisted therapies.Target Audience: Physicians, therapists which are using / planning to use robotic-assisted therapies for children with CP.Course Summary: Robotic assisted therapies are increasingly being used to improve motor abilities in children with CP, but theeffectiveness of these usually expensive and time consuming interventions is not clearly determined across the heterogenity of pediatricmovement disorders. Different therapy settings throughout different institutions and heterogenicity of patient characteristics (age,phenomenology, GMFCS level) still limit the value of outcome evaluation using systematic reviews. This session will demonstrate personalexperience gained during more than 7 years of using robotic-assisted treadmill therapy on the levels of function, activity and participation.Factors that influence effectiveness will be presented and discussed in relation to WHO-ICF domains and will be set into the context ofactual literature.Learning Objectives:1) To become familiar with the impact of patient specific factors (e.g. diagnosis, gender, age, GMFCS level, etc.) on effectiveness of roboticassisted therapy.2) To become familiar with the impact of treatment specific factors (e.g. the combination with botulinum toxin injections, treatmentintensity) on the effectiveness of therapy.3) To gain experience with the potential effect size of presented outcome measures on different ICF domains (e.g. using GMFM 66, COPM)in correlation to the influencing factors.4) To help to estimate the right expectations about the individual’s outcome for communication with the patients and parents.BRK 2 - TREATING COMPLEX FEEDING DISORDERS IN AN INTENSIVE, DAY TREATMENT SETTINGLocation: 202 AAuthor: Mary C. Bickley, MedLevel: IntermediatePurpose: Describe the essential elements necessary to treat children with complex feeding disorders in an intensive, day treatment modelTarget Audience: Physicians, therapists, educatorsCourse Summary: Feeding therapy provided at the local level is traditionally done on a once per week or less basis. This service provisioncan be hampered by developmental issues, illness, parent participation and therapist availability. Parents frequently report frustrationwith slow progress. Mrs. Bickley will discuss an alternative to this traditional service provision that allows for concentrated focus on holisticevaluation, individuation of treatment that is provided in a family centered environment on an intensive basis. Parents report greaterunderstanding of their individual child’s difficulties, therapy needs and comprehension of the long term plan following admission to this twoweek program.Learning Objectives:1) Participants will identify the barriers to normal eating patterns in medically complex children.2) Participants will identify elements of holistic evaluation that will allow for individualization of treatment.3) Participants will identify the essential elements necessary to develop and promote efficient/effective eating patterns in children.4) Participants will identify the benefits/drawbacks of intensive day treatment model for feeding disorders.22American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine • FINAL PROGRAM