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Welcome to 2024! |
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Hello 2024! We hope you all had a lovely and safe holiday during the break. Now it’s time to hit the ground running and start preparing for WDSC 2024 in Brisbane, Australia on the 9 - 12 July. We hope you will all be joining us! |
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Call for Presentations are closing soon |
Call for Presentations is about to bid farewell in just under three weeks’ time. If you've been brewing up a storm of ideas, inspiring presentations, or performances, now is the time to let them burst forth at WDSC 2024!
If you would like to do a presentation at the WDSC2024, you need to attend in person.
All you have to do is submit an abstract. We have many options which include:
The theme for WDSC 2024, is ‘Together We Can: celebrating diversity and inclusion’ with the following streams:
1. Health and therapeutic advances 2. Education and employment 3. Advocacy and social inclusion 4. Family life 5. Personal development
The Call for Presentations (Abstracts) is due to close on Friday 2 February 2024. |
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The Early Bird Gets the Worm |
Take Advantage of the Early Bird registration rates and register yourself to WDSC 2024.
We have plenty of other opportunities to register yourself to such as pre-congress events and social functions.
Check out our website for a chance to register save!
Early Bird registrations close 21 March 2024. |
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Register this week for your chance to
Cuddle a Koala! |
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Register for Congress between now and 14 January 2024 to go into the draw for a Cuddle a Koala experience.
Even better, we are giving away up to 3 tickets so that your family can be there while you hold a real Australian Koala!
Competition information: Closes 11.59pm 14 January 2024, GMT+11 time. Each individual registered will have the opportunity to win 1 x cuddle a Koala experience in Brisbane, with up to 3 additional tickets for family and friends to join you. Winners will be notified by 31 January 2024. |
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Introducing our Third Plenary SpeakerDr Jasneek Chawla |
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We are excited to announce that Dr Jasneek Chawla will be joining us as a Plenary Speaker at WDSC 2024.
Dr Jasneek Chawla is a Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Medicine Specialist at Queensland Children’s Hospital, Brisbane and leads the Kids Sleep Research Group at the Child Health Research Centre, University of Queensland. |
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Her research interests include sleep in children with complex disability and the development of novel measurement tools for paediatric sleep medicine. A/Prof Chawla holds a Children’s Hospital Foundation, Early Career Fellowship and is leading a multi-centre MRFF funded study focused on improving the diagnosis and management of sleep disorders in children with neurodisability.
Her PhD work focused on sleep problems in children with Down syndrome and provided the foundations for her ongoing research and forged a strong connection with Down syndrome Queensland and Down syndrome Australia. A/Prof Chawla is a board director for the Australian Sleep Association and is chair of the Education Committee and deputy chair of the conference committee. |
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