16-17-18 September (Practical Workshop Orthotics)

Hours16 September 2024, Monday17 September 2024, Tuesday18 September 2024, Wednesday
09:00-10:30Theory AFO’s and
Night orthotic
Theory corsets: De-lordosing corset,
RX of scoliosis
Standing frames,
Hip and pelvic
Hand orthotics
10:30-11:00Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
11:00-12:30Children examination for AFO’sScoliosis / De-lordosing measure with children Specific questions
12:30-13:30LunchLunchLunch
13:30-15:00Children examination for AFO’sChildren examination for serial casting

Foot/ankle and knee
Children examination for serial casting

Foot/ankle and knee
15:00-15:30Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
15:30-17:00Orthotists’ practicals

PT/OT and MD examination and discuss different children
Orthotists’ practicals

PT/OT and MD examination and discuss different children
Evaluation Material

19 September

TimeHall A (Berta Bobath)Hall B (Karel Bobath)Hall C (Jennifer Bryce)
08:30-09:00Opening Ceremony
09:00-09:30Opening Addresses
Mintaze Kerem Günel
(Turkish NTO-President / (BTA-Türkiye President)
Christine Barber
(EBTA-President)
Yasemin Buran Çırak
(Dean – Faculty of Health Sciences, ISU)
Erkan İbiş
(Rector of Istinye University)
09:30-10:30Keynote Speaker 1
Bobath Clinical Reasoning Framework (BCRF): Same or different?
Speaker: Margaret Mayston
Chairs: Christine Barber, Mintaze Kerem Günel
10:30 – 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00Keynote Speaker 2
Our experience in the treatment of the upper limb in children with cerebral palsy
Speaker: Guy Molenaers
Chairs: Kubilay Beng, Nikolaos Yfantis
12:00 – 13:00Keynote Speaker 3
Motor assessment during the first year of life
Speaker: Christine Van den Broeck
Chairs: Liliana Klimont-Fjøsne, Gönül Acar
13:00 – 14:00Lunch
(13:30-13:50) Satellite Conference
Identifying & Treating Excessive Pronation in Children with Hypermobility and Hypotonia using the SureStep SMO
Speaker: Can Erdem, MSC PT LPOcan erdem
14:00 – 15:30Instructional Course 1

Adult Cerebral Palsy
Senior Tutors: Christine Barber
Rajkumar Rajan
Instructional Course 2

Problems of swallowing
Senior Tutor: Marleen D’hondt
Instructional Course 3

Intensive Therapy of the lower limbs and the trunk in children with bilateral cerebral palsy: how to set up a qualitative functional training – CIRCUS CAMP
Senior Tutors: Christine Vandeperre
Ann Govaere
15:30– 16:00Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
16:00 – 17:00Oral Presentations
Chairs: Leonor Antoinetti, Bilge Nur Yardımcı-Lokmanoğlu

Neuromotor Effect of Tactile Kinesthetic Massage on Premature Babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
İlknur Ezgi Doğan, Ankara/Türkiye

Early Intervention Program Applied According to The Bobath Concept On Risky Premature Babies And Investigation Effects On Long-Term Neurodevelopmental Parameters
Çiğdem Ünver, İstanbul/Türkiye

Impact of Physiotherapy on Early Preterm Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Using the International Classification of Function Framework
Deniz Çakır, Samsun/Türkiye

Catching the High Risk of Cerebral Palsy – Evidence-Based Practice Example
Fuat Sönmez, Giresun/Türkiye

Long-term Follow-up results of Infants with Prader-Willi Syndrome from the First Months of Life: A Case Series
Bilge Nur Yardımcı-Lokmanoğlu, Ankara/Türkiye
Oral Presentations
Chairs: Marleen D’hondt, Kübra Seyhan Bıyık

Individualized Goal-Directed Bobath Therapy in Two Patients with Dyskinetic Cerebral Palsy with Musculoskeletal Deformities: Case Series
Kübra Seyhan Bıyık, Ankara/Türkiye

The Effects of Neurodevelopmental Therapy on Feeding and Swallowing Activities in Children with Cerebral Palsy
Nasim Ejraei, İstanbul/Türkiye

Upper Extremity BoNT-A an Important Treatment to Increase Activity and Participation in Children with Cerebral Palsy: A Systematic Review
Hande Fidan, İstanbul/Türkiye

Construct Validity and Reliability of the Affordances in the Home Environment for Motor Development-Infant Scale
Özge Çankaya, Ankara/Türkiye

Effects of motor impairment and environmental factors on social participation in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy
Hasan Bingöl, Bingöl/Türkiye
Oral Presentations
Chairs: Robert Giezek, Busra Kepenek-Varol

Turkish Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Standardized Infant NeuroDevelopmental Assessment Neurological Scale in Turkish At-Risk Infants
Nilay Çömük Balcı, Samsun/Türkiye

Examining the Effects of Home-Based Trunk Control Exercises on Balance and Postural Control in Children with Spastic Cerebral Palsy
İrem Nur Şener, İstanbul/Türkiye

Long-Term Results of Neurodevelopmental Treatment Approach in Cerebral Palsy
Melike Özipek, İstanbul/Türkiye

The Turkish Adaptation of Gross Motor Function Classification System Family Report in Children with Cerebral Palsy, the Determination of its Reliability, and the Investigation of the Consistency of the Family and the Physiotherapist in Determining the Gross Motor Function Level
Esra İncesu Oral, Ankara/Türkiye

The effects of treadmill training on postural control and balance in children with spastic diplegic cerebral palsy
Cemil Özal, Ankara/Türkiye
17:00 – 18:30Instructional Course 3 (re-presentation)
Intensive Therapy of the lower limbs and the trunk in children with bilateral cerebral palsy: how to set up a qualitative functional training – CIRCUS CAMP
Senior Tutors: Christine Vandeperre
Ann Govaere
Instructional Course 4
Respiration for children with cerebral palsy
Instructor: Yasemin Buran Çırak
Instructional Course 5
Clinical reasoning in cerebral palsy –training innovations supporting clinical practice
Senior Tutor: Sarah Foley
18:30 – 19:00NIGHT-WALKING-TOUR IN ISTANBUL
The tour vehicle will depart from the congress center garden at 19:00 and after a tour of approximately 3 hours, it will drop our guests off in front of the
Uranus Hotel. (Not Included: Food, beverages and personal expenses)
(Tour programme: Sultanahmet Square: A night walk through Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, and the Hippodrome)

20 September

Hall A (Berta Bobath)Hall B (Karel Bobath)Hall C (Jennifer Bryce)
08:00 – 09:00Keynote Speaker 4
Participation meaning to Bobath therapists: Bridge to practice
Speaker: Mintaze Kerem Günel
Chairs: Margaret Mayston, Ayşe Numanoğlu Akbaş
09:00 – 10:30Instructional Course 6

Optimizing early visual processing plasticity
Senior Tutor: Christa Scholtz
Instructional Course 7

“Smart Goals according to Bobath clinical reasoning with parents. “Tandem work”.
Senior Tutor: Leonor Antonietti
Instructional Course 5 (re-presentation)

“Clinical reasoning in cerebral palsy –training innovations supporting clinical practice”.
Senior Tutor: Sarah Foley
10:30 – 11:00Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
11:00 – 12:30Instructional Course 6 (re-presentation)

Optimizing early visual processing plasticity
Senior Tutor: Christa Scholtz
Instructional Course 8

Holistic assessment and approach in children with cerebral palsy swallowing disorders
Instructors: Numan Demir
Tutku Soyer
EBTA General Meeting 
12:30 – 13:30LunchLunchLunch
13:30 – 14:30Keynote speaker 5
Cerebral Palsy: Genetic and New Horizons diagnosis and treatment
Speaker: Ceren Günbey
Chairs: Nilüfer Eldeş Hacıfazlıoğlu, Canan Çağ
EBTA General Meeting
14:30 – 15:30 Oral presentations
Chairs: Ann Govaere, Özge Çankaya

The Relationship between parental self-efficacy and family support for children with cerebral palsy
Özge Çankaya, Ankara/Türkiye

The experiences and challenges faced by adolescents who have a sibling with cerebral palsy
Gulce Kallem Seyyar, Kütahya/Türkiye

Investigation of participation and related factors in children with spastic cerebral palsy
Merve Tunçdemir, Bitlis/Türkiye

Intra- and inter-rater reliability and validity of tele-assessment of Selective Control of Upper Extremity Scale in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy
Sefa Unes, Bingöl/Türkiye

Improving Feeding Skills and Transition to Breastfeeding in Early Preterm Infants: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Oromotor Intervention
Deniz Çakır, Samsun/Türkiye



Oral presentations
Chairs: Yasemin Buran Çırak, Christine Vandeperre

Spatiotemporal gait parameters in children or adolescents with unilateral cerebral palsy compared to typically developing children: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Öznur Fidan, Kütahya/Türkiye

Predicting Postoperative Ambulation Following Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy Based on Preoperative Gross Motor Function Score
Gökçen Erol, İstanbul/Türkiye

Evaluation of Long-Term Effects of Selective Dorsal Rhizotomy Surgery on Function and Mobility in Children with Cerebral Palsy Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) Model
Fatih Erol, İstanbul/Türkiye

Investigation of the Instantaneous Effect of the Adaptive Mobility Device Applied to a Child with Cerebral Palsy on Walking- A Case Study
Melek Vatansever, Bursa/Türkiye
EBTA General Meeting
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee BreakCoffee BreakCoffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Keynote speaker 6
Clinical reflections on objective functional parameters children with spastic cerebral palsy: 3D gait analysis
Speaker: Ekin Akalan
Chairs: Fuat Bilgili, Hasan Bingöl
EBTA General Meeting
19:00GALA DINNER (registration is required – hakan@diamed98.com)
The bus that will transfer us for the gala dinner will depart from in front of the congress center garden at 17:15 and
will drop us off in front of the Uranus Hotel after the dinner.

21 September

TimeHall A (Berta Bobath)Hall B (Karel Bobath)Hall C (Jennifer Bryce)
08:00 – 09:00Keynote Speaker 7
Postural control: Knowledge transfer to clinical practice
Speaker: Cemil Özal
Chairs: Jenny Caroll, Feride Bilir
09:00 – 10:00Keynote Speaker 8
What a rehabilitation team member needs to know about the CP spine?
Spine problems and CP
Speaker: Muharrem Yazıcı
Chairs: Josse de Cat, Ekin Akalan
10:00 – 10:30Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30Keynote Speaker 9
Clinical reasoning as basis for the Bobath concept
Speaker: Josse de Cat
Chairs: Christine Barber, Cemil Özal
11:30 – 12:00END OF CONGRESS
Mintaze Kerem Günel
(Turkish NTO-President / (BTA-Türkiye-President)
Christine Barber
(EBTA-President)

Our program

Designed to help children realize their potential

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Why us

The best early learning experience

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Holistic approach

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Passionate teachers

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Supervision to keep children

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Infant

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Toddler

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Preschool

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Day care membership offer

Schedule and tuition

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Half Days

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Full Days

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Extended Day

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We welcome kids into our 2-4’s program based on their birth year.