CDS Seminar Series : Professor Frank Symons | Pain in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - Issues, Ideas, & Innovation

This seminar is free to attend and is open to all, both within and outside the University. If you wish to attend in person or via Zoom, please register your interest to attend via the Zoom portal using the link above. Zoom details will be shared prior to the event via email.

We are delighted to announce that the Centre for Developmental Science will welcome Professor Frank Symons, Associate Dean for Research and Policy, College of Education + Human Development, Distinguished McKnight University Professor at the University of Minnesota, to present a hybrid CDS Seminar, taking place on Thursday 9th of March, 13:00-14:00.

You are welcome to attend either in person at Gisbert Kapp Lecture Theatre, Room LT1, or online via Zoom. If you wish to attend, please register your interest to attend either in person or online via the Zoom portal using the link above. The Zoom link will be shared via email prior to the event.

There will be the opportunity for an informal discussion after the seminar itself.

To arrange a 1:1 meeting with the speaker, please email Caroline Richards (Psychology) c.r.richards@bham.ac.uk

CDS Event Host - Dr Caroline Richards

Pain in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities - Issues, Ideas, & Innovation

Abstract

Issues in the assessment and management of pain among individuals living with intellectual and associated developmental disabilities (IDD) will be reviewed and discussed. This is a high-risk group often over- and under-medicated for the wrong reasons. The goal of the seminar will be to address some of the clinical research and clinical care issues in pain in IDD in relation to underlying assumptions, measurement approaches, and from there advance a set of ideas that may be well positioned to support innovative next steps toward the ultimate goal of improving outcomes and reducing health-care disparities prevalent among individuals with IDD.

Speaker Biography

Frank Symons is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor in Educational Psychology and Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are focused separately and simultaneously on self-injury, pain, and outcomes measurement across the lifespan in neurodevelopmental disability. His program of work has been supported continuously by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1997 with an overall goal of understanding mechanisms, reducing risk, and improving developmental and functional outcomes.

This seminar is free to attend and is open to all, both within and outside the University. If you wish to attend in person or via Zoom, please register your interest to attend via the Zoom portal using the link above. Zoom details will be shared prior to the event via email.