Dr. Javier Virués-Ortega was recently featured in a Shaw TV Winnipeg segment on autism research and treatment in Manitoba. The segment, arranged by the Manitoba Institute for Child Health, is available on YouTube.
Shaw TV Research Spotlight
In Memoriam
We mourn the passing of Dr. Jeanette Holden (1947-2012): a dedicated champion of autism research, a valued collaborator and research affiliate, and a dear friend.
New Research Grant on Caregiver Safety
Congratulations to Drs. Bev Temple & Toby Martin, and colleagues at St.Amant and New Directions, for their successful grant application to the Research and Workplace Innovation Program at the Workers Compensation Board of Manitoba.
The 2-year grant, titled Working with Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities: Injuries and Challenging Behaviour, aims to understand how workplace injury occurrence relates to staff education and training about challenging behaviour, to staff perspectives about their use of information from the training sessions, and to the factors most commonly associated with injuries.
For more information, please contact:
Toby Martin
Manager, St.Amant Research Centre
256.4301 x5481
tmartin@stamant.mb.ca
A Knowledge Translation Casebook
We’re proud to have our story, Knowledge Translation in Developmental Disabilities: Voices from the Community included in Innovations in Knowledge Translation: the SPHERU KT Casebook (PDF download). More information about the Casebook, published by the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit, is available at kidSKAN.
New CARE-ID Presentations
The Canadian Association for Research and Education in Intellectual Disabilities (CARE-ID) has a great new line-up of presentations on Intellectual Disabilities, including one by St.Amant Researcher Dr. Shahin Shooshtari. These presentations are conducted via teleconference and are open to all CARE-ID members.
ABA Intervention and Brain Plasticity
How does Applied Behaviour Analysis intervention – the most evidence-supported treatment for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders – change brain activity patterns? Read more »
A New St.Amant Conference
Mark your calendars: on May 18 & 19, 2011, St.Amant will host the Canadian Conference on Developmental Disabilities and Autism at the Fort Garry Hotel, Spa, and Conference Centre in downtown Winnipeg. The new name, location, and dates for Western Canada’s largest conference in this field all signify a packed and exciting program for researchers and practitioners alike. More details about the Research Centre’s contributions will follow in the weeks ahead.
We look forward to seeing you there.
International Attention
Our researcher Dr. Javier Virués-Ortega was recently featured in the Winnipeg Free Press. Javier described some of his research goals and spoke of the value of being at St.Amant and its Research Centre. Great news!
Finding the Causes of Problem Behaviour
To address problem behaviour, it’s essential to know why it’s happening. This process is time- and labour-intensive – but could there be a faster way?
January 2011 Research Bulletin
Please enjoy the January 2011 issue (PDF) of our Research Bulletin.
