Virtual Conference 2022 – August

Program – 4 August 2022

02:00 pm British Summer Time

02:00 – 02:05 pm

Welcome & Introductions

02:05 – 2:30 pm

Pharmacological interventions for managing behaviours of people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) – a systematic review of effectiveness and adverse effects

Donna Gillies, PhD, Director, Research and Practice Evidence at NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

02:30 – 02:35 pm

Questions

02:35 – 03:15 pm

The Integrated Mental Health Treatment Guidelines for Prescribers in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Jennifer McLaren, M.D., Chief Medical Advisor, National Center for START Services, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and The Dartmouth Institute, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Dartmouth Health

Andrea Caoili, LCSW, MSW, Director of Research and Quality Assurance, National Center for START Services, Institute on Disability/UCED, University of New Hampshire

Joan Beasley, PhD, MEd, Research Professor, Director, National Research Consortium on IDD-MH, National Center for START Services, Institute on Disability/UCED, University of New Hampshire

03:15 – 03.30 pm

Questions to the panel

International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD) 

The International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IASSIDD) is the first and only world-wide group dedicated to the scientific study of intellectual disability.

Founded in 1964 as the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency, IASSIDD is an international, interdisciplinary and scientific non-governmental organization which promotes worldwide research and exchange of information on intellectual disabilities.