Improving information on disability and functioning

'A forum for people who need, use or develop information'

6-7 February 2006
Masonic centre, Sydney

Family of four

 
Note:
Links to speakers' abstracts and presentations are listed after each presentation topic and all abstracts are compiled in the following document. (186K PDF; 343K DOC)

Forum papers will be available on the web after the forum.

DAY ONE: MORNING SESSION
Main Room (plenary)

 
Time Session Speaker Topic Chair/Facilitator
8.30

Registration 

9.00 Welcome Dr Ching Choi, 

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

 

 

 

Dr Ching Choi, Acting Director, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare


Main room (Plenary)

9.15 Keynote address Dr Bedirhan Üstün, WHO Secretariat Co-ordinator, World Health Organization What is the future for ICF? (36K PDF; 94K DOC; 3174.5K PPT
9.45   Ros Madden, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare The vision in Australia: progress, challenges and questions for the Forum (38K PDF; 94K DOC; 1197K PPT)
10.15  

Morning tea

 
10.45 ICF and international developments Phillip French, The Disability Studies and Research Institute Definition, data collection, disability and human rights - challenge and response

(45K PDF; 25K DOC; 405K PPT; Paper 147K PDF;444K DOC)

Professor Richard Madden, Director, National Centre for Classification in Health, University of Sydney


Main room (Plenary)

11.15   Dr Rune Simeonsson, University of North Carolina (US) The ICF for children and youth (38K PDF; 94K DOC; 816K PPT)  
11.45   Professor Gavin Andrews, School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales. World Health Collaborating Centre for Mental Health The WHO DAS 2 rules (45K PDF; 166K DOC; 887.5K PPT; Paper 107K PDF; 331K DOC)  
12.15    

Lunch

 
 

Principal supporting sponsor
 Department of Families, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs

DAY ONE: AFTERNOON SESSION

Parallel Session: ICF across speciality areas
Chair: Professor Linda Worrall
, University of Queensland
Main room
Parallel Session: Measuring health and disability in surveys
Chair: Ann Peut,
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Room 2 
Time Speaker Topic Speaker Topic
1.15 Catherine Sykes, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Capturing data: a functioning and related health outcomes module (FRHOM) (40K PDF; 94K DOC; 438.5K PPT Dr Marijke W. de Kleijn de Vrankrijker, WHO-FIC Centre in the Netherlands Measuring health and disability at European and world level (57K PDF; 25K DOC; 444.5K PPT; Paper 121K PDF; 328K DOC
1.35 David Stokes, Australian Psychological Society The use of ICF codes as an Indicator for Intervention (IFI) in Allied Health (48K PDF; 25K DOC; 437K PPT) Ken Tallis and Dr Xing Yan Wen, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare The ICF and international surveys - Reflections on recent and forthcoming data gathering ventures (60K PDF; 27K DOC; 443K PPT)
1.55 Dr Peteris Darzins, Monash Ageing Research Centre, Monash University Clinical use of the Personal Care Participation Assessment Resource Tool (PCPART) (94K PDF; 261K DOC; 584K PPT) Sally Goodspeed, Australian Bureau of Statistics The relationship between ICF as a framework, and the data collected in ABS surveys (42K PDF; 95K DOC; 225K PPT)
2.15 Professor Elizabeth Badley, University of Toronto, Canada Fitting the full range of contextual factors into the ICF model: One size does not fit all (48K PDF; 166K DOC; 866K PPT) Dr Bedirhan Üstün, WHO Secretariat Co-ordinator, World Health Organization What is wrong with Disability Statistics? (37K PDF; 94K DOC; 3427.5K PPT)
2.35 Dr Ashok Abhyankar, Department of Health, Northern Territory The use of ICF-CY in very young children with developmental disorders (49.5K PDF; 24.5K DOC; 139K PPT; Paper 147K PDF; 409K DOC Speaker discussion  
3.00  

Afternoon tea

 
  Session sponsor
Session sponsor

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Families walking together

DAY ONE: AFTERNOON SESSION (continued)

Parallel Session: The environment and participation - research and development of these components of the ICF
Chair: Professor Lenore Manderson,
Monash University
Main room
Parallel Session: Measurement and data capture in service delivery and information systems
Chair: Professor Trevor Parmenter
, Centre for Developmental Disability Studies, University of Sydney
Room 2
Time Speaker Topic Speaker Topic
3.30 Robert Strike with Sally Robinson, Disability Studies and Research Institute So what's it like?: Giving up your personal information to researchers (39K PDF; 26K DOC; 480K PPT) Dr Phil Anderson, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Analysis of ICF compatible items on support needs in a national administrative data set (41K PDF; 27K DOC; 499K PPT)
3.50 RoseAnne Misajon, Monash University  Introducing the PIPP: Using the ICF to develop a new instrument (59K PDF; 25K DOC; 700.5K PPT) Dr Anne Jenkins, ACT Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services

and, 

Dr Diane Gibson,  Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Data capture and whole-of-government approaches to human services (48K PDF; 24K DOC; 447K PPT)

4.00

Nerina Scarinci, Communication Disability in Ageing Research Centre, University of Queensland

 

ICF and Third-Party Disability: Its application to spouses of older people with hearing impairment (54K PDF; 97K DOC; 524K PPT)

  

   
4.10 Tami Howe, Communication Disability in Ageing Research Centre, Univeristy of Queensland Environmental factors that influence the community participation of adults with aphasia (72K PDF; 26K DOC; 1116.5K PPT)    
4.20 Elizabeth Savina, Communication Disability in Ageing Research Centre, University of Queensland Barriers and facilitators to public bus information (55K PDF; 94K DOC; 439K PPT) Dr Vivienne Riches, Centre for Developmental Disability Studies University of Sydney I-CAN: An instrument to classify and assess support needs of people with a disability (82K PDF; 26K DOC; 732K PPT)
4.30 Robyn O'Halloran, Communication Disability in Ageing Research Centre, University of Queensland Assessing communicative capacity in the acute hospital setting (56K PDF; 226K DOC; 416.5K PPT)    
4.40

Speaker discussion

Speaker discussion

4.50

Panel discussion involving day one chairs and invited participants

5.30

CLOSE OF DAY ONE

7.30

Informal dinner at Dockside restaurant, Cockle Bay Wharf at Darling Park. Pre dinner drinks commence at 7pm. 

  Session sponsor

Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Sydney
 

DAY TWO: MORNING SESSION
Main Room (plenary)

 
Time Session Speaker Topic Chair/Facilitator
8.30

Welcome

8.45 ICF and connecting with what matters Maryanne Diamond, Australian Federation of Disability Organisations What information do we really need? (38K PDF; 25K DOC; 584K PPT; Paper 91K PDF; 253K DOC Dougie Herd, 

Director, Office of the Disability Council of NSW


Main room (plenary)

9.15   Professor Linda Worrall, Department of Speech Pathology, University of Queensland The ICF and communication disability

(59K PDF; 25K DOC; 586.5K PPT)

9.45   Professor Lenore Manderson, ARC Federation Fellow, Monash University Social and cultural dimensions of disability:  Environmental factors of the ICF in a cross-cultural perspective (39K PDF; 95K DOC; 2113.5K PPT)
10.15

Morning tea

10.45 Rehabilitation, compensation and aged care Associate Professor Ian Cameron, Rehabilitation Studies Unit, University of Sydney Applying the ICF to assessment scales in acquired brain injury (42K PDF; 97K DOC; 612.5K PPT) Dr Diane Gibson, 

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

 

Main room (plenary)

11.15   John Walsh, PricewaterhouseCoopers Actuarial Pty Ltd The ICF and accident compensation (45K PDF; 165K DOC; 400K PPT)
11.45   Professor Len Gray, The Australasian Centre on Ageing, University of Queensland. The relationship between the inter-RAI and the ICF (49K PDF; 32K DOC; 6190K PPT
12.15   Ros Sackley, National Indigenous Disability Network Indigenous information needs in rehabilitation and beyond
12.45

 Lunch
 

Family of eight

DAY TWO: AFTERNOON SESSION

Parallel Session: The ICF: sharing information and some challenges
Chair:
Dr Rune Simeonsson, University of North Carolina (US)
Main room 
Parallel Session: The ICF in rehabilitation 
Chair: Catherine Sykes,
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Room 2 
Time Speaker Topic Speaker Topic
1.45 Sally Bullock and Kate Williams, Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Environment and participation (48K PDF; 94K DOC; 4532K PPT) Dr Cheryl Swanson, Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Queensland Use of the CHIEF-SF in a community setting to identify barriers to activity and participation. (51K PDF; 25K DOC; 1337K PPT
2.10 Nick Marosszeky, Australian Health Outcomes Collaboration, Centre for Health Service Development, University of Wollongong Use of HRQoL and functional measures in health outcomes assessment (41K PDF; 95K DOC; 394K PPT Associate Professor Louise Hickson, Communication Disability in Ageing Research Centre, University of Queensland Application of the ICF in rehabilitation of older people with hearing impairments (50K PDF; 31K DOC; 847.5K PPT)
2.30 Professor Robert Cummins, Deakin University ICF does half the job: Psychological status cannot be ignored (50K PDF; 26K DOC; 166.5K PPT) Dr Pattariya Jarutat, Sirindhorn National Medical Rehabilitation Centre   ICF in Thailand (40K PDF; 97K DOC; 1091K PPT
2.50 Professor Richard Madden, National Centre for Classification in Health, University of Sydney ICF implications for ICD (36K PDF; 94K DOC; 787.5K PPT; Paper 110K PDF; 417K DOC) Dr Sharynne McLeod, Charles Sturt University Application of the ICF to children with speech impairments (56K PDF; 24K DOC; 1640K PPT; Paper 490K PDF; 649K DOC)
3.10 Speaker discussion    Dr Brigette Larkins, University of Queensland Application of the ICF to investigate communication functioning (47K PDF; 25K DOC; 411.5K PPT)
 3.30  

 Afternoon tea

 
4.00

Functioning and disability in the future: A way forward for people who need, use or develop information
Panel discussion Main room (plenary)

5.00

CLOSE OF FORUM