DC HRP offers training for providers to improve services working with persons with developmental disabilities.

For information, call (202) 687-8544.

Training Opportunities

Reinventing Quality 2008: Embracing Change: New Voices, Vision, and Approaches
August 10-12, 2008
Baltimore, Maryland
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NADD is a co-sponsor of this conference focused on Reinventing Quality in developmental disability services.

Mental Health Aspects: Treatment & Support
Ohio State MH/MR Annual NADD Conference
September 3 & 4, 2008
Columbus, Ohio

Continuing Education Credit available. Click here for more information.

Cognitive Disability: A Challenge to Moral Philosophy
September 18-20, 2008
New York

"Rethinking and revising traditional assumptions about personhood, autonomy, agency, justice, care, human relationships, classification, and moral responsibility...in light of Alzheimer's autism and 'mental retardation'."

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The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders
12th Annual Conference
November 7, 8, 9, 2008
Pre-Conference Workshops on Thursday, November 6"

Autism & Disorders of Relating & Communicating"
Featuring Stanley Greenspan, MD, Serena Wieder, PhD, Ricki Robinson, MD, and a group of distinguished faculty presenting the latest information on Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Hilton McLean Tysons Corner, Virginia
Conference materials available in late August at the ICDL web site, click here.

A Quarter Century of Awareness:  Assessment, Treatment & Policy Advances (ID/MH)
NADD 25th Annual Conference and Exhibit Show
November 12-14, 2008
Niagara Falls, ON, Canada

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Intensive Training Courses in Habilitative Mental Health for Persons with Developmental Disabilities
The International Certificate Programme in Dual Diagnosis
This program is offered by Brock University in association with Niagara Univeristy and the NADD.

For more details, click here.