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INSAR local community conference: Autism across Adulthood: The latest scientific findings. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
09/05/2018 @ 10 h 00 min - 15 h 30 min
INSAR stands for the “International Society for Autism Research”, an organization for and by scientists who are involved in autism research. Every year INSAR organizes a scientific congress for the afore-mentioned scientists, mostly in the United States. This year the conference is in Rotterdam.
The congress lectures are of a scientific nature, but will also be of interest to autistic people, their families and professionals in the field. That is why every year prior to this congress an extra ‘community conference’ is organized for those who are interested in autism and want to know what the latest scientific insights are, delivered in an accessible way by top international scientists.
This year this community conference will take place in the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam, and will be organized by Hilde Geurts (chairman, UvA, Dr. Leo Kannerhuis, INSAR), Kirstin Greaves-Lord (Erasmus MC Yulius) and Sander Begeer (VU). , Els Blijd-Hoogewys (Inter-Psy), Dolien Buijs (NVA), Mariët van IJzendoorn (Dr. Leo Kannerhuis), Bram Sizoo (Dimence), Amélie Picard (zzp) & Carolien Torenvliet (UvA, INSAR).
We will apply for accreditation for NIP, NVvP, FGzPT and V & VN.
Accessibility
The community conference is geared as much as possible to autistic people themselves. This means, for example, that extra attention is paid to the possibility of taking some time out (quiet space), getting information or support (support desk) and indicating your contact preferences (a color system that allows someone to indicate “I do not the initiative to establish contact, but appreciate contact, so I want you to take the initiative “).
Some photographers will be present, but if you prefer not to be photographed, you can also indicate this with the color system. If you notify us in advance, assistance dogs on a leash are welcome. Our location is wheelchair friendly, we would also appreciate it if you could notify us about this in advance (see application form).
Practical information
Our location is located next to the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. Information about the route (car and public transport) to the conference location (KIT, Amsterdam) will be announced two weeks in advance.
Programme
Additional programme
For healthcare professionals and other interested professionals (partly in relation to accreditation) four workshops will be offered in Dutch from 15: 30-16: 30. These will be provided by scientists and / or healthcare professionals together with experienced experts. The subjects are: Women with autism; Work and autism; Elderly people with autism; Intimate relationships and autism; You can specify the order of your preference on the registration form and we will do our best to put you first or second preference. NB: Target group for the workshops are people who work in healthcare or in another sector for / with people with autism.
The reason for this is that the purpose of these workshops is to teach these professionals how they can work in an autism-friendly way with regard to the various themes, in other words; how this professional can best meet the needs of autistic people and their loved ones. To achieve this, the workshops are given by a professional in equal cooperation with an expert by experience, in order to ensure that the needs of people with autism and their loved ones are central.
In this way, the perspectives from experiential expertise, practice, policy and research come together in the workshops as well as possible. This integrated knowledge came about in the Academic Workshops Autisme Reach-Aut and Samen Doen! and will be shared through these workshops.