Program

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S - Symposium | PS - Parallel Session  | PO - Poster

Wednesday 5 June

Academic program

Ghent University AulaAcademica, Voldersstraat 9, Gent

TIME
Program

14:00 - 17:00

Registration

17:00 - 17:30

Opening of DCD15-IMDRC6

17:30 - 18:20

Keynote - Prof. Bernard Dan: Towards the end of disability?

18:20 - 20:30

Welcome reception , with local food

Thursday 6 June

Academic program

De Bijloke, Bijlokekaai 7, Gent

TIME
Program

8:00 - all day

Registration

9:00 - 9:50

Keynote - Prof. Ellen Beate Hansen Handseter: Children´s risky play – thrilling experiences and developmental benefit

9:50 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

S1 - International insights: Toddler motor skills across diverse cultures and early childhood education and care environments

PS1 - Assessment 1

PS2 - Underlying mechanisms 1

PS3 - Motor competence, associations with physical activity

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch break + special symposium on Movement ABC-3 & DASH-2 (S11)

13:00 - 14:30

S2 - A cross-country comparison of the impact of Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)

PS4 - Assessment 2

PS5 - Underlying mechanisms 2

PS6 - Motor competence, longitudinal

14:30 - 16:00

Moderated electronic poster session (PO1A, PO1B, PO1C, PO1D) with coffee

16:00 - 17:15

PS7 - Balance

PS8 - Play, risk, outdoor

PS9 - Transdiagnostics

PS10 - Motor competence, associated factors

17:15 - 17:30

Break

17:30 - 18:20

Keynote - Dr. Bradley King: When children outperform young adults: Examinations into the neural underpinnings of childhood advantages in motor learning

Friday 7 June

Academic program

De Bijloke, Bijlokekaai 7, Gent

TIME
Program

8:00 - all day

Registrations

9:00 - 9:50

Keynote - Prof. Herbert Roeyers: Known but unloved: Motor difficulties in autism

9:50 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

S3 - Assessing Behaviors & Cognition 4 (motor, psychological, social-emotional, cognition) Physical Education - ABC’s 4 PE: A motor assessment focus

PS11 - Intervention 1

PS12 - Psychosocial factors

S4 - Combined action observation and motor imagery interventions improve motor skill development and (re)learning across the lifecourse

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch break + special workshop on COMBINE (S12)

13:00 - 14:30

S5 - Validity evidence for the Physical Literacy in Children
Questionnaire, a journey without an end

PS13 - Intervention 2

PS14 - Motor Learning

PS15 - Early childhood 1

14:30 - 16:00

Moderated electronic poster session (PO2A, PO2B, PO2C, PO2D) with coffee

16:00 -17:15

S6 - Highly intensive training: the need, feasibility and preliminary results in children with DCD

PS16 - Awareness

PS17 - Underlying mechanisms 3

S7 - The genetics of DCD

17:15 - 17:30

Break

17:30 - 18:20

Keynote - Prof. David Stodden & Prof. Caterine Pesce: A holistic approach to development: Implications for motor development research

19:30 - 01:00

Conference dinner and party @ Concert Hall De Vooruit (Live band and DJ from 21:30)

Saturday 8 June

Academic program

De Bijloke, Bijlokekaai 7, Gent

TIME
Program

8:00 - 14:00

Registration

9:00 - 10:00

PS18 - Adults

PS19 - Early childhood 2

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 12:00

S8 - DCD BIG IDEAS GROUP (DCDBIG): From big questions to new insights on understanding, recognising and treating DCD

S9 - Evaluating and stimulating motor competence in relation to the aquatic setting

S10 - REACT project: What families, PE teachers, and communities need to know about children's growth, motor development, and health habits

12:00 - 12:45

Awards ceremony & closure of DCD15-IMDRC

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch