Scientific Program
Thursday, 17th September 2026
08:30 Document delivery
09:00 Opening Ceremony
Table 1
Chair
09:15 Cerebral Palsy in the 21st century in Portugal; a country open to the world - Daniel Virella
10:15 Portugal NTO
10:45 Questions
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
Table 2
Chair
11:15 Can the Bobath Clinical Reasoning Framework (BCRF) secure the future of Bobath? - Margaret Mayston
12:00 Neuroimaging and its connection to clinical practice - Raquel Carvalho
12:40 Questions
12:45 - 14:30 Lunch
Table 3
Chair
14:30 When feeding gets complicated: Bridging disciplines to decode paediatric feeding problems. - Marleen D'hont
15:15 Windows of opportunity in movement development - Maria António Castro
15:55 Questions
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
Table 4
Chair
16:20 "Facilitation" influencing activity and outcome: exploring the contradictions - Gill Stern
17:00 Questions
17:15 End of the conference day
Friday, 18th September 2026
Table 5
Chair
09:00 Israel NTO
09:30 Croatia NTO
10:00 Finland NTO
10:30 Questions
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break
Table 6
Chair
11:15 Switzerland NTO
11:45
12:15 Metabolic Disorders Mimicking Cerebral Palsy: Clinical Presentation and Diagnostic Challenges - Teresa Campos
12:45 Questions
13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
EBTA Meeting
14:00 - 18:30
Table 7
Chair
14:30 Partnering for possibility: Empowering partners for atypical communication - João Canossa
15:20 Questions
15:30 Adapted sports as a component of rehabilitation - Nuno Januário
16:10 Questions
16:15 - 16:30 Coffee Break
Posters presentation
16:30
17:00 End of the conference day
Saturday,19th September 2026
Table 8
Chair
09:00 Bobath Concept ……What are the opportunities and challenges? - Christine Barber
09:45 What would I be without you AT - Nuno Meireles and Joaquim Faias
10:15 Questions
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
Table 9
Chair
11:00 Beyond Motor Function: Aerobic Capacity in Children with Cerebral Palsy - Vitor Hugo Azevedo
11:30 Seeing Beyond the Eyes: Participation and Function in Cortical Visual Impairment - Carla Ferreira
12:00 Being a child with special needs; the family also has to be special! - Eduardo Sá
12:30 Questions
12:40 Child presentation - Miguel and Júlia Azevedo
13:00 Official closing of the conference - Christine Barber (president of EBTA)
13:15 End of the conference
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