• Congratulations to Raquel Sanchez Palomares  from Spain who became a Basic Course Instructor in July after her successful qualification event.
• Congratulations to Miguel Benito Garcia from Spain who became an Advanced Course Instructor in July after his successful qualification event .

2021 IBITA AGM/Congress
The virtual AGM will be held on the Saturday August 28th 2021 from 13.00 – 16.30 European time and will include the announcement of the results of the elections for office bearers and discussion of the reports and motions. The zoom meeting link will be emailed next week.
Please refer to the AGM webpage for the AGM agenda and related information LINK 

Postal votes – MOTIONS shall open AFTER the virtual AGM

Receipts for IBITA subscriptions will be issued in September. If you need specific information on your receipt for tax purposes, please let the Secretary ([email protected]) know by 1^st September.

Please remember the ‘Host Country’ Educational webinar is 25^th September. Both presenters have provided pre-reading. All details are available on the webpage https://ibita.org/online-education-resources/

Important dates for next month

• August 20, 2021
  • Postal votes – ELECTIONS ONLY – close

• August 28, 2021
  • VIRTUAL AGM – 1300-1630 hrs Europe Time.

• August 28, 2021
  • Postal Votes – MOTIONS – open after the Virtual AGM
    • Postal votes will only be accepted from full members who have completed their SIS by June 30th AND paid their subscriptions by August 12th.

• September 3, 2021
  • Postal Votes – MOTIONS – close

More Information is available on the Important Dates webpage: LINK 

Covid-19 EXEMPTIONS
The Executive and Education Committees are continuing to work together to provide advice and guidance for planning and teaching IBITA courses during this pandemic.
Please remember to contact the Executive Committee for all exemptions and questions.

Please remember the that all members have been granted exemptions for

• Not teaching a course from July 2019 to June 2021
• The 220 and 2021 AGMs will not be counted when establishing compliance with the AGM attendance rule.
• More Experienced Instructors – The period 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2021 shall not be counted to establish compliance with the requirement to evaluate Instructor-Candidates on Basic Courses in the previous 5 years

Covid-19 Course Exemptions
Please refer to the separate document Covid-19 Course Exemptions Guidelines – latest version LINK
Please submit all course exemption requests to the IBITA Chairperson, Libby Swain, email: [email protected]

Education Committee
Education Committee Webinar Series 2021
The Education Committee is pleased to invite you to a series of webinars to be held this year to help us stay connected and tuned to our association, and to share knowledge and experience regarding the Bobath Concept.  During the webinars it will be possible to ask questions online to open discussion on the topic.  The webinars will be recorded and available on the website for those unable to participate in the online session.   There is a webpage for online education resources  LINK

• Title: The revised definition of the Bobath Concept: terminology clarification.  Instructors: Julie Vaughan Graham, Marc Michielsen, Ann Holland, Mary Lynch-Ellerington, Maarten Bossuyt, Helen Linfield, Hokari Yoshide, Monica Morelli.  Date: September 2021 – further details will be available soon
• Title: ICF and the Bobath Concept. Instructors: Sheena Irwin-Carruthers and Elsje Scheffler.  Date to be determined
• Title: 7 Case studies using the MBCP by IBITA members. Date: after September

Instructor Training Committee
The Instructor Training Committee is planning to offer 2022 modules in February AND in August/September

2022 Brescia, Italy: Not aligned with IBITA Congress
February 14 to 17  ACI-C module – Using Task Analysis as a tool for developing clinical reasoning skills in the Bobath Concept
February 19 to 22 BCI-C module – Postural Control and Locomotion module
February 23 to 27 BCI-C module – Postural Control and Upper Limb module

Registration will open for the February 2022 modules on 1^st September 2021

2022 Saitama, Japan
August 27 – 30 Pre congress BCI-C Training Module: Postural Control and the Upper Limb
September 4 – 7 Post congress BCI-C Training Module: Postural Control and Locomotion
September 4 – 7 Post congress ACI-C Training Module: Using Task Analysis as a tool for developing clinical reasoning skills in the Bobath Concept.
The venue for all 3 Modules will be held at the Rehabilitation Amakusa Hospital, Saitama,, Japan

2022 ITC Module Deadlines:

Any Basic Course Instructors who have taught five Basic Courses are eligible to apply for the ACI-C training module so do not miss a valuable opportunity to further develop your clinical reasoning skills.

IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ALL BCI-C’S & ACI-C’S
Instructor-candidates will be given preferential priority registration on a “first come, first served” basis until 1 ^st November 2021 for the February modules to be held in Italy,  and  1^st ApriL 2022 for the modules to be held in Japan.

Instructor-Candidate Training Module Grants
Please refer to the Policies and Procedures 5.1.2 Instructor-Candidate Training Module Grants.  Module registration must be completed prior to grant application submission.

Module Plans for 2023 Marstrand, Sweden and 2024 Italy
Refer to the webpage https://ibita.org/future-modules/ for details

Research Committee
The Research Committee will be presenting their first Webinar on 16th October 2021
“How to start research activity- rules regarding case report and case series research: an example of research carried out during the basic course by an IBITA instructor.”  Research Committee members and Klaus Gusowski at 1:30 pm European Time. More information will be in the September newsletter.

Other news
The newsletters contain important information so if you have not seen the monthly newsletter recently (in case it has landed in your junk/spam box and you have not noticed!) please remember it is also available in LATEST NEWS on the homepage of our website – https://ibita.org/news/

Please be aware that scam emails have been sent to IBITA members this month so be careful.

Finally, if you have any information for the next newsletter, please send it to me by 15^th September 2021.
Janice Champion
IBITA Secretary