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CHE-AK call: The Hidden Hazards of Coal Development in Alaska: Public Health and Coal Combustion Waste:
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Upcoming EventsAIDD Annual Meeting June 9 - 11, 2010The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD) is hosting their annual meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. On the agenda will be two Environmental Health Initiative presentations: one on the Mind, Disrupted biomonitoring project (www.minddisrupted.org), with participants Laura Abulafia (AAIDD), Robert Fletcher (National Association for the Dually Diagnosed), and Joe Meadours (self-advocate and executive director of People First of California), and one session on health policy work led by Joyce Martin (AAIDD). For more information, contact Joyce Martin: jmartin@aaidd.org. Autism Society of America Meeting July 7 - 10, 2010The Autism Society (ASA) is hosting a full day environmental health symposium at their annual meeting coming up this July 8th in Dallas, Texas. Speakers will include Joe Guth, JD, Ted Schettler, MD, MPH, and other prominent environmental health leaders. There will also be a session on the Mind, Disrupted biomonitoring project. To get more information, please contact Donna Ferullo: dferullo@autism-society.org. TeleconferencesLDDI member AAIDD hosts regular teleconferences through its Environmental Health Initiative on topics related to learning and developmental disabilities and the environment. Learn more » Past Meetings, Conferences and Eventsin reverse chronological order LDDI Biomonitoring Project
The report, Mind Disrupted, was released in conjunction with a Congressional Hearing on chemical policy reform held on the Senate side Thursday February 4th. For an audio recording of the event, and for more information on the report release, please visit www.minddisrupted.org, the new website that houses the report and other relevant materials. A briefing on the House side was held in Washington, DC, on Friday February 19th. For more information, please contact Laura Abulafia with LDDI: laura@healthandenvironment.org. LDA Conference Symposium February 17, 2010The Learning Disability Association of America's annual medical symposium on environmental health was held in Baltimore, Maryland, as part of LDA's annual conference. The first part of the symposium featured participants in the LDDI biomonitoring project. Read more » State Policy Forum in Illinois, October 2009The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), the Learning Disabilities Association of America (LDA) and many other LDDI partners worked hard on putting together a policy forum in Illinois on October 2nd, entitled "Public Health, Toxic Chemicals and Disabilities." The event was a great success with four policymakers attending and one speaking at the meeting. Part of the meeting was a panel on biomonitoring where personal stories from the LDDI biomonitoring project were shared. Learn more » Educational Forum, February 2009AAIDD, LDA, and ASA partnered with local organizations in Connecticut to co-host an educational forum on toxic chemicals and public health in Hartford. LDDI Policy Training in Baltimore, January 2009Materials from the training:
LDDI's Fall 2007 Teleconference SeriesThis seven-part teleconference series was based on the agenda of the conference, "Priming for Prevention: An Ecological Approach to Research, Education and Policy," that was to be held at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2007. Dial-in information will be sent to LDDI members in a separate email message before each teleconference. CME credits will not be available for these calls. Overview: Emerging science suggests that environmental exposures, along with socioeconomic factors, gene-environment interactions and infectious disease, can undermine healthy child development. In addition, these factors can contribute to increases in learning and developmental disabilities, neurological disorders and other child health problems. This means that to ensure children's well-being, we not only need to reduce environmental contaminants but to develop a whole systems or "“ecological" understanding in order to address these complexities. Leading researchers and advocates presenting in this teleconference series will highlight recent studies and describe how this new science is being translated into innovative solutions and public policy opportunities. Our intention is to help participants on these calls come away not only with more scientific knowledge, but with new ideas we can collectively take to "prime for prevention" and to protect the health and future of all children. Sponsors: Collaborative on Health and the Environment's Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative; American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; Autism Society of America; Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4; Institute for the Study of Disadvantage and Disability; Learning Disabilities Association of America; John Merck Fund; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities; Southeast Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit; University of Maryland School of Nursing 1) "Priming for Prevention" Presenters:
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2) Overview of Science Regarding Environmental Contributors to Child Development Presenters:
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3) Research in Relation to Specific Learning and Developmental Disabilities Presenters:
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4) Matrix of Other Emerging Research Presenters:
Note: We had hoped to have Irva Hertz-Picciotto, PhD, MPH, professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of California, Davis, California, present on "The CHARGE Study: Childhood Autism Risks from Genetics and the Environment", but she is not available on this date. We are trying to arrange another date for her to speak. Call Materials:
5) More Emerging Research Presenters:
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6) Leading Learning and Developmental Disabilities Organizations: New Model Environmental Health Initiatives Presenters:
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7) Innovative Approaches: What Do a Community-based Researcher, an Environmental Design Analyst and a Chemist Have in Common? Presenters:
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Conference Call June 20, 2006Conference Call April 10, 2006
Regional Meeting: Minnesota, January 21, 2006"Preventing Harm to Growing Brains: Environmental Contributors to Learning & Developmental Disabilities in Children" is the title of this one-day meeting for educators, parents, children's advocates, researchers, policymakers, health professionals and others. Keynote Speakers were
Regional Meeting: California, October 27, 2005Meeting materials:
Presentation files old than two years have been removed to conserve space. If you would like a PowerPoint file, please send a request to CHE email. Regional Meeting: New York City, June 9, 2005LDDI's third regional meeting saw almost 80 people attend, some of whom were new to environmental health. The energy and engagement were notable throughout the day, right up until Elise Miller had to bring the "wrap-up/next steps" session to a close to begin the CHE reception. Meeting documents and presentations:
Presentation files old than two years have been removed to conserve space. If you would like a PowerPoint file, please send a request to CHE email. Congressional Briefing on Pollutants and Disabilities, May 10, 2005Members of the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI), a national working group of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, organized a Congressional Briefing on Tuesday, May 10, 2005, from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. in the Senate Dirksen Building. The Briefing, entitled "Chemical Exposure, Children's Health and Disability," was cosponsored by Senators Lautenberg, DeWine, Kerry, Snowe and Jeffords. For more information about the organizers and presenters, please see these PDF documents: Regional Meeting: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 9, 2005The Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) held its second regional meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on April 9th as part of the inaugural CHE-PENN conference. Approximately 40 people attended this half-day workshop, including researchers, health professionals, learning and developmental groups, public health representatives, environmental health and justice advocates and other concerned citizens. Ted Schettler, MD, MPH; Herbert Needleman, MD; and Laura Hewitson, PhD, provided science overviews and updates on neurotoxicants, followed by a panel of national, state and local nonprofits, represented by Kathy Lawson, Myron Arnowitt and Amy Stiffey, MA, who is working to protect communities from neurotoxicants through education and policy efforts. Kathy Lawson, who directs the Learning Disabilities Association's Healthy Children Project, will be the point person in Pennsylvania to follow up with participants on potential collective LDDI activities. Meeting documents:
Regional Meeting: East Lansing, Michigan, October 27, 2004The first LDDI Regional Meeting was held Wednesday, October 27, 2004, on the Michigan State Univeristy campus in East Lansing, Michigan. The purpose of this meeting was to foster effective collaboration between researchers, health care professionals, health-affected groups, environmental health and justice advocates and other concerned citizens in order protect all children in the region from environmental pollutants that can undermine their healthy development. Meeting documents and photo:
National Meeting: May 19, 2004The first major national meeting of the Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) was held at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, on May 19, 2004. Meeting Materials
Slides from PowerPoint PresentationsPresentation files old than two years have been removed to conserve space. If you would like a PowerPoint file, please send a request to CHE email.
National Meeting: March 21, 2003Meeting Notes (44KB) National Meeting: May 23, 2002Meeting Notes (20 KB) |
