Mission
The mission of the Special interest Research Group on Health is to promote physical health of people with an intellectual disability. This is done by formulating priorities for health care, research and training and by sharing ideas and results. The SIRG organizes annual roundtables in varying countries around specific themes, consisting of update lectures
Roundtables
The group has organised roundtables in:
- Leiden, the Netherlands (1998)
- Manchester, England (1999)
- Seattle, US (2000) IASSIDD World Congress
- Gothenburg, Sweden (2001)
- Dublin, Ireland (2002)
- Westchester, NY, US (2003)
- Montpellier, France (2004) IASSIDD World Congress
- Melbourne, Victoria, AU (2005) Combined Roundtable of the Health Issues and Mental Health SIRGs of IASSIDD.
- Maastricht, Netherlands (2006) European IASSIDD Congress
- Prato, Italy (2007)
- Cape Town, South Africa (2008) IASSIDD World Congress
- Kingston, Canada (2009)
- Prato, Italy (2010) Combined Roundtable of the Health Issues and the Ageing SIRGs of IASSIDD.
Membership
Its membership is open to:
- Researchers in the broad field of health and health care for people with intellectual disabilities
- Practitioners in health care general practitioners (family doctors), medical specialists, physiotherapists, speech and hearing therapists, optometrists, dietitians, dentists, and nurses and others interested in health issues)
- Family members or other significant persons in the lives of persons with intellectual disabilities
- Representatives of volunteers or service organizations
All the members of IASSIDD with an interest in research relating to health issues may join the Health Issues SIRG. Select the SIRG when joining or renewing your membership.
Documents and Newsletters
Newsletters
Meeting Notes
Health SIRG President’s Report
Archives
IASSID INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS STATEMENT (Word Document, 49 Ko)
VISUAL IMPAIRMENT (Word Document, 67 Ko)
HEARING IMPAIRMENT (Word Document, 58 Ko)
Events
Annual Meeting – Nijmegen
November 6, 2013 from 18:00 – 19:00 hrs in Nijmegen University Medical Centre St Radboud, Studiecentrum
Annual General Meeting – Halifax
July 13 from 13:00 until 14:30 in Suite 302 WTCC
Health SIRG Roundtables
2011 – General meeting held in Bethesda, USA at Roundtable
2012 – July, General meeting held in Halifax at World Congress
2013 – General meeting held in Nijmegen, Netherlands Conference
2014 – General meeting held in Vienna at European conference
2015 – General meeting held in Los Angeles, USA at joint AADMD and Special Olympics conference
2016 – August, General meeting held in Melbourne, Australia at IASSIDD World Congress
2017 – June Health SIRG conference held in Belfast, Northern Ireland (see more specific details in next page)
November – Members attended the Asia Pacific IASSIDD Conference in Bangkok, Thailand no official Health SIRG held.
2018 – July, Athens General meeting held in Athens, Greece at European Conference.
Executive Members
Dr Laurence Taggart, RNID, BSc (Hons), PGCE, FHEA, PhD – President Health SIRG
Lead for the Centre for Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities
Lead for the Autism Research Hub
Co-Editor: Journal for Policy & Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Room 12J19
Institute for Nursing & Health Research
Ulster University
Shore Road
Newtownabbey
Co Antrim
BT37 0QB
NORTHERN IRELAND
Tel: 0044 2890366538 E.mail: [email protected]
Dr. Beverley Temple, RN – Secretary, Health SIRG
Associate Dean, Nursing Programs, School of Health Sciences
Red Deer College,
Red Deer, Alberta
[email protected]
Emily Lauer, MPH
Director
Center for Developmental Disabilities Evaluation and Research (CDDER)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center
University of Massachusetts Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North, S3-301
Worcester, MA 01655
[email protected]
774-455-6563
Esther J. Bakker-van Gijssel, MSc, MD (ID-physician)
Department of Primary and Community care – Intellectual disabilities and health
Academic Collaborative “Stronger on your own feet”
[email protected]
Eva Flygare Wallen, PhD
Academic Primary Health Care Center, Stockholm County Council, Sweden
[email protected]
And
Divison of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
[email protected]
Helene Ouellette-Kuntz, PhD
Professor
Dept. of Public Health Sciences
Director, MAPS (www.mapsresearch.ca)
Queen’s University
191 Portsmouth Avenue, Kingston, Ontario, K7M 8A6
phone: 613-548-4417 x. 1198
email: [email protected]
Dr. Ir. Jenneken Naaldenberg
Senior researcher
Department of primary care- Intellectual disability&health
Academic collaborative Sterker op eigen benen
[email protected]
www.sterkeropeigenbenen.nl