CYPF London is excited to host Associatie Professor Brian Hoare over a two part online lecture series.

Tickets for Part 1 and Part 2 must be bought seperately.

Part 1 was hosted on June 8th,tickets to access a recorded version of this lecture is avalible here until July 2nd.

Part 2 will not be recorded, so please join us live.

*The start time of this event has been changed from 19.30 to 20.30, sorry for any inconvinience caused*

In this two-part series, Associate Professor Brian Hoare will firstly provide an overview of overview of the latest evidence for upper limb therapy in children with cerebral palsy. He will provide an overview of the key ingredients across each model of therapy and unpack some of the critical differences between protocols within the same model of therapy.

In the second part of the series, Associate Professor Brian Hoare will present outcomes from an evidence-based, distributed, clinical model of early upper limb intervention for children with unilateral CP. Using case studies, he will highlight key features of this model including the implementation of motor learning and cognitive-based models of practice, coaching and parent support and home programs.

Learning Objectives:

1. To gain knowledge about the current evidence for upper limb therapy for children with cerebral palsy.

2. To define the differences between intensive and distributed models of upper limb intervention.

3. To examine data on the cumulative and longitudinal effects of multiple blocks of evidence-based therapy in a clinical cohort of pre-school children with unilateral CP across a 5-year period.

4. To define the key principles for implementation of an evidence-based model of early upper limb intervention for children with unilateral CP.

Speaker Biographies

Associate Professor Brian Hoare spent the first 20 years of his career as a clinical occupational therapist at Monash Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. He completed a PhD at La Trobe University and undertook a post-doctoral fellowship at the Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Brian is Director of the Cerebral Palsy Group which focuses on delivering evidence-based therapy for children with cerebral palsy (CPTherapy) and providing high quality education for therapists that focuses on the translation of research findings into clinical practice (CPTeaching). He is also the founder of CPToys which is harnessing technology to improve the focus and outcomes of therapy programs for children with cerebral palsy. Brian currently holds an Associate Professor position within the School of Occupational Therapy at LaTrobe University and is an adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Paediatrics, Monash University and an Honorary Research Fellow at Australian Catholic University. Brian was awarded a Career Development Grant by the Cerebral Palsy Alliance in 2017, received the prestigious Gayle G. Arnold Award at the American Academy for Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine in 2018 and recognised in 2020 as an AMP Tomorrow Maker.