INTERNATIONAL BOBATH INSTRUCTORS TRAINING ASSOCIATION
An international association for adult neurological rehabilitation
June Newsletter
Executive Committee News
New Qualified Advanced Instructor
We would like to congratulate Camila Torriani-Pasin from Brazil who qualified as Advanced Course Instructor in May 2024.
Congress and AGM 2024 in Verona, Italy
Registration is open LINK
The Congress will open on Wednesday evening 28th August with a Welcome party. This will be followed by Educational days on 29th and 31st August and the AGM on 30th August. For further information follow this LINK
Covid-19 Exemptions
Please remember to contact the Executive Committee for all exemptions and questions.
Covid-19 Exemptions: qualification without modules – LINK
Covid-19 Course Exemptions – LINK
Course Exemptions
Please submit all course exemption requests to the IBITA Chairperson Marc Michielsen – [email protected]
Conferences and Congresses
We recommend that information regarding interesting and relevant upcoming conferences and congresses, as well as online educational courses, be forwarded by membership to the IBITA.
Publishing Courses
Please do not forget to publish the basic and advanced courses you are teaching in 2024. Please publish all the co-instructors or/and instructor candidates who are active involved in teaching. If you need help, please contact the IBITA Secretary Victor Urquizo – [email protected]
Reminder SIS
Statements of Instructor Status and Instructor Candidate Status has to be completed after May 1 and before June 30 by ALL members – Full, Retired, Honorary Life Members, and Associate Members. Electronic submission via Member Profile on website – SIS Instructions
Course request for Doha, Qatar
Center “Shafallah Center for Persons with Disabilities in Doha-Qatar, for our Occupational Therapists/ Physiotherapists
If you have interest please contact:
Mrs. Hanady Ali
Human Resources Specialist
Shafallah Center for Persons with Disabilities
Doha-Qatar
+974-4495-6264
+974-5539-3093
Instructor Training Committee
2024 Italy
Registration is closed for the BCIC and ACIC Modules to be held in Brescia.
2025 Japan
- PRE AGM: ACIC 24th to 27th August
- POST AGM: BCIC Upper Limb 31st August to 3rd September
Future Modules
Refer to the webpage https://ibita.org/future-modules/ for details
Research Committee
A call for volunteers for the “Reading Circles”, meaning… reviewing articles (according to a list of 4-5 journals) that are suitable for our library.
If you are willing, please contact Kostas: [email protected]
Webinar Invitation
The ResCom is happy to invite you to a two-topic webinar on the aspects of human skill acquisition and performance, July 20th at 10am (Israel time).
The first topic:
Human movement performance: specificity vs. transfer
Probes into the charachteristics of aquired gains in learning (specifically the constraints on inter-and-intrahemispheric transferring of practice dependent acquired gains).
The second topic:
Dual balance & stability
Discusses aspects of learning a complex balance task i.e., the tradeoff between balance and speech in performance.
Presented by: Orit Elion, PT, PhD, and an IBITA advanced course instructor
Join Zoom Meeting
https://tau-ac-il.zoom.us/j/88215044666
Meeting ID: 882 1504 4666
Also, you are welcome to watch the recordings of our previous webinars on the website. Hoping for better days, Mika
Nominating Committee
The Nominating Committee wishes everyone a good early summer and we hope that there are still some IBITA members who would like to join a committee. We still need members for the Education Committee, Member at Large and for the Appeal and Grievance committees.
Please contact any of us on the Nomination Committee. We are waiting for your application.
Other News
If you have any information for the July newsletter, please send it to the IBITA Secretary by 15th July.
Victor Urquizo, IBITA Secretary, [email protected]