Preconference Workshops IASSID Academy, Cape Town

Several Pre-Conference Workshops are proposed for attendees:
Communication - Persons with intellectual and communication disabilities: making
communication work. The workshop will introduce participants to the use of pictures to
improve a person's understanding about unfamiliar or difficult events.
Multiple Disability - Persons with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities: The
forgotten citizens of the world. The workshop is to demonstrate ways that will convince
delegates that individuals with PIMD are able to develop, to communicate, to enjoy life, in
short: to be a citizen of this world.
Parenting - This Roundtable, hosted by the SIRG on Parents and Parenting with Intellectual
Disabilities will provide the opportunity for researchers, practitioners and families to come
together to share up to date knowledge about parenting and discuss the way forward to ensure
parents with intellectual disabilities and their children are recognized and supported.
Quality of Life - The workshop is an examination across the lifespan of wellbeing and quality
of life for people with intellectual disabilities and their families
Risk Management - Assessment of Risk and Manageability for Intellectually Disabled
Individuals who Offend (ARMIDILO). This workshop is an introduction to assessing risk and
manageability of clients with intellectual disability, who exhibits sexual or non-sexual violent
and challenging behavior, and an aid in case-planning.