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Wednesday May 30
15:00 - 17:00 Registration and installation of posters.
17:15 Buses leave from Grand Hotel for Reykjavik City Hall. 17:30 - 19:00 Reception at Reykjavik City Hall.
Thursday May 31
08:00 - 08:45 Registration.
Conference room: Gullteigur A and B
Chair: Stefán J. Hreidarsson
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome address.
Organization Committee.
The President of Iceland – Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson.
09:00 - 10:00 Diagnosis in autism spectrum disorders: Where are we going and
how will we know when we get there?
Catherine Lord, Director, University of Michigan, Autism and
Communication Disorder Center (UMACC). Professor of Psychology
and Psychiatry. Research Professor, Center for Human Growth and
Development (CHGD), USA.
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee and tea.
Exhibition and posters.
10:30 - 11:15 Mental retardation and pervasive developmental disorders. Annelies de Bildt, Research Psychologist in Child Psychiatry at the
University Medical Centre, Groningen, and at Accare University Centre
for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Holland.
11:15 - 11:45 A genealogical approach to the genetics of autism including the
broader autism phenotype.
Ragnheiður Fossdal, Project Leader, deCODE Genetics Inc., Iceland.
11:45 - 12:15 Using a pregnancy cohort to discover causes of autism spectrum
disorder. The Autism Birth Cohort (ABC) and the Norwegian Mother
and Child Cohort Study (MoBa).
Camilla Stoltenberg, Director of Division for Epidemiology, Norwegian
Institute of Public Health, Norway. 12:15 - 13:30 Lunch at the conference hotel restaurant. Parallel sessions
Chair: | Conference room - Gullteigur A
Synnve Schjølberg | Conference room - Gullteigur B
Marko Kielenen |
13:30 - 14:00
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Pilot study of the Psychopathology
in Autism Checklist – PAC.
Helverschou SB – Norway.
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Affect recognising by children with HFA, AS, ADHD and by normally developed children.
Moilanen I – Finland.
| 14:00 - 14:30
| Comorbid psychiatric disorders
in children with ASD - data from
a community based study.
Gjevik E – Norway.
| The impact of affective education
in children with Asperger syndrome (AS) and high-functioning autism (HFA).
Nielsen AM – Denmark.
Iversen G - Norway.
| 14:30 - 15:00
| Down syndrome and autism.
Clinical features and implications
for intervention.
Storvik S – Norway.
| Activities and participation in activities when not being at school.
Comparing children and youth with and without Asperger syndrome in mainstream schools.
Tellevik JM – Norway.
| 15:00 - 15:30
| Coffee and tea.
Exhibition and posters.
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| Self-control training for escape maintained problem behaviors.
Magnússon AF – Iceland.
| Dimensions of capabilities in school activities. Comparing pupils with Asperger syndrome and their peers.
Nærland T – Norway.
| 16:00 - 16:30
| Cultural and personal narratives.
An autistic girl’s acquisition using alternative and augmentative communication.
Grindheim E – Norway.
| Sensory processing of Icelandic
children and adolescents with
Asperger syndrome and other autism spectrum disorders.
Leósdóttir T - Iceland.
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16:45 Opportunity to visit deCODE Genetics. Buses leave from Grand Hotel.
19:30 Gala dinner at Grand Hotel Reykjavík.
Friday June 1
08:00 - 09:00 Exhibition and posters.
Conference room: Gullteigur A and B.
Chair: Ólafur Ó. Gudmundsson
09:00 - 10:00 Epidemiology of autism spectrum disorders: Rates, trends, and the
role of the environment. Eric Fombonne. Canada Research Chair in Child Psychiatry.
Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University, Director of the
Department of Psychiatry at the Montreal Children’s Hospital, Canada.
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee and tea.
Exhibition and posters.
10:30 - 11:00 Time trends in reported diagnoses of childhood neuropsychiatric
disorders. Hjördís Ósk Atladóttir, North Atlantic Neuro-Epidemiology Alliances (NANEA), Institute of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Aarhus, Denmark. 11:00 - 11:30 Girls with autism and AD/HD.
Svenny Kopp, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Gothenburg – Sweden. 11:30 - 12:15 Poster session – Opportunity to meet with authors. 12:15 - 13:30 Lunch at the conference hotel restaurant. Parallel sessions
Chair: | Conference room - Gullteigur A
Jannik Beyer | Conference room - Gullteigur B
Bengt A. Persson |
13:00 - 13:30
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The hyperserotonemia of autism spectrum disorders.
Mulder EJ - Holland.
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Risk factors for language impairment at the age of three in a pregnancy cohort study.
Roth C – Norway.
| 13:30 - 14:00
| Risk of autism and infantile spasms: A case-control study nested in a population-based cohort.
Sæmundsen E – Iceland.
| A measurement system for
monitoring play in typically
developing children and children
with autism.
Gudmundsdóttir K - Iceland.
| 14:00 - 14:30
| Coffee and tea.
Exhibition and posters.
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| An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the Social Responsiveness Scale in a group of Icelandic children relatives of probands with autism.
Magnússon P - Iceland.
| Description and comparison of children diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorders before or after the age of 6 years.
Jónsdóttir SL – Iceland.
| 15:00 - 15:30
| Families of children with autism spectrum disorders - Parental and family stress, social support and access to information and services.
Thorsteinsdóttir G - Iceland.
| Cost-benefit estimates for early intensive behavioral intervention
for young children with autism in Iceland.
Gylfason HF – Iceland.
| 15:45 - 16:00 16:00 - 17:00
18:00 | Closing remarks and discussion.
Group meetings - booking of rooms at the registration desk.
Buses leave for various tours and excursions. |
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