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Conference Call:

APRIL, 1997

April 17-20: Save the Children Child Care Support Center will sponsor the 20th annual Save the Children Family Child Care Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Contact Lynn A. Manfredi/Pettit, Conference Manager, Save the Children Child Care Support Center, 1447 Peachtree Street NE, Suite 700, Atlanta, GA 30309-3030, tel: (404) 885-1578x226; fax: (404) 874-7427.

April 19: The National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis will hold its 25th annual scientific conference in New York City on the topic, "Childhood Trauma and Recovery: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Treating Patients of All Ages." Speakers will include Dorothy Bloch, Geraldine Youcha, Joseph Lichtenberg, Stella Acquarone, and Herman Roiphe. Contact Margery Quackenbush, NAAP, 80 Eighth Ave., NYC, tel: (212) 741-0515.

April 20-22: The National Center for Family Literacy will hold its Sixth Annual National Conference on Family Literacy in Louisville, Kentucky. Call NCFL, (602) 584-1133.

April 25-26: The Menninger Division of Continuing Education will sponsor a conference in Topeka, Kansas entitled, "Early Childhood Mental Health Issues in Multi-problem Families." Serge Lebovici and Susan McDonough will be featured speakers. Call Menninger Continuing Education, tel: (800) 288-7377.

April 28-30: Contemporary Forums will sponsor a conference in New Orleans, Louisiana on The Child with Special Needs (0-5 years). There will be a special two-day preconference on autism. Contact Contemporary Forums, 11900 Silvergate Drive, Dept. PR, Dublin, CA 94568, tel: (510) 828-7100, x); wwwcforums.com (Dept.PR).

MAY, 1997

May 2 and 3: The Hincks Centre for Children's Mental Health will sponsor a workshop entitled, "Watch, Wait, and Wonder: An Introductory Training Workshop in Parent-Infant Intervention." The WWW intervention was featured in the recent CBC production, "When the Bough Breaks." Contact Edythe Nerlich, C.M. Hincks Institute, Toronto, tel: (416) 972-1935, x3341; fax: (416) 924-9808; e-mail: hincks@interlog.com.

May 12-14: Contemporary Fonirns will sponsor the 15th annual conference of neonatal nursing in New Orleans, Louisiana, with a preconference on Advanced Neonatal Physiology. Contact Contemporary Forums, 11900 Silvergate Drive, Dept. PR, Dublin, CA 94568, tel: (510) 828-7100, x); wwwcforums.com(Dept.PR).

May 13-16: The C. Henry Kempe National Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect will present the 25th annual Child Abuse and Neglect Symposium in Keystone, Colorado. Call (303) 321-3963.

May 18-20: The Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health will hold its 21st annual conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan, entitled "Infant-Caregiver Relationships: Broadening Our Perspectives." Speakers will include Linda Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn, Alison Clarke-Stewart, Cynthia Garcia-Coll, Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok, Susan McDonough, Betsy Lozoff, Sheila Gahagan, and Sharown Swindell. Contact University of Michigan, Conferences and Seminars, Room G121 South Quad, 600 E. Madison, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1372, tel: (313) 764-4276, fax: (313) 764-1557.

JUNE, 1997:

June 6: The Maine Association for Infant Mental Health will hold its Conference'97 in Bangor, Maine, on the theme, "Hyperactivity and Disruptive Behavior in the Very Young Child: Guides to Intervention." Jean Thomas will be the major presenter. Contact Edward Hinckley, RO. Box 101, Vienna, ME 04360, tel:fax: (207) 293-2051.

June 16-20: Syracuse University's College for Human Development and Continuing Education will present Alice Honig's 21st annual Quality Infant/Toddler Caregiving Workshop in Syracuse, New York. Faculty will include Alice Honig, Jay Belsky, Diane Keller, Thomas Fiscoe, John Friedman, Susan Snyder, Nan Songer, and Mary Anne Theiss. Contact Smita Mathur, tel: (315) 4432757 or e-mail: SMATHUR@NMILBOX.SYR.EDU, or Dr. Honig, fax: (315) 443-2562.

June 25-27: Bank Street College will sponsor an Infancy Institute in New York City, featuring speakers Carolee Howes and Samuel Meisels. A one-credit graduate course, "Teaching College Students about Infants, Toddlers, and Families," will be taught by Rachel Theilheimer on June 23 and 24.

Call for presenters and papers:

The 1998 International Study Conference of ACEI (The Association for Childhood Education Intemational), which will be held April 15-18, 1998 in Tampa, Florida, invites proposals for workshops and concurrent sessions concerning issues related to children from infancy through early adolescence. Suggested topics and submission guidelines are available upon request. The deadline for submissions is May 1, 1997. Contact Marilyn Gardner, Director of Conferences, ACEL tel: (800) 423-3563; fax: (301) 942-3012; e-mail: aceiconf@ aol.com.

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