COURSE INFORMATION

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is proud to offer the Prechtl’s Basic General Movement Assessment course. Research conducted in the past 20 years has shown that the qualitative assessment of spontaneous movement in the fetus, newborn and young infant is an early and reliable indicator for diagnosis and prognosis of neurological disorders. Compelling evidence shows that Qualitative Assessment of General Movements (GMs) — a specific type of spontaneous movement — under the age of 5 months is the best predictor of cerebral palsy. This course fulfills the standards specified by the General Movements Trust (www.general-movements-trust.info). The course will consist of lessons, demonstrations and discussions of video recordings. Lectures will alternate with exercises in small groups discussing videos prepared by the tutors.

At the end of the course, participants will be required to take a final assessment to achieve a Certificate of Reliability in this method of assessment.

Basic Course

Through lectures, demonstrations and exercises, attendees will learn:

• The ontogeny of spontaneous motor activity;

• Normal and abnormal general movements (GMs) from birth to 20 weeks post-term;

• Practical instructions for recording and assessing GMs;

• GMs and follow-up: individual developmental trajectories and their predictive power for later neurological impairments

The registration fee includes registration materials, continental breakfasts, lunches, breaks and parking. As part of our green initiative, syllabus material will be available online up to one week prior and two weeks following the conference.

Early Registration Fee.......................$900 before Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019

Registration Fee..................................$975 after Thursday, Aug. 15, 2019

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians.

AMA CREDIT DESIGNATION STATEMENT

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia designates this live activity for a maximum of 21.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia is an approved provider of continuing education by the American Occupational Therapy Association Inc. Twenty-one contact hours or 0.21 AOTA CEUs will be awarded to participants at the completion of the program. Assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products or clinical procedures by AOTA. Approved Provider Number: 4878.

PHYSICAL THERAPY ACCREDITATION

The content of this course has been submitted for 21 hours of Physical Therapy CEUs in the States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

TARGET AUDIENCE

The target audience includes neonatologists, pediatric neurologists, general pediatricians, developmental and behavioral pediatricians, and physical and occupational therapists.

GENERAL INFORMATION

The conference will be held at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the Ruth and Tristram Colket, Jr. Translational Research Building on the Raymond G. Perelman Campus,

A block of rooms with reduced rates has been reserved at the Sheraton University City Hotel, 36th and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, PA 19104. The group rates are $172 single and double occupancy, plus a 16.37% room tax. Participants are required to make their own hotel reservations by calling the Sheraton directly at 888-627-7071 or 215-387-8000. The special room rates will be available until Monday, Oct. 14, 2019.

No faculty are available for this activity at this time.