Iowa's Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities Project
ILEND is the Iowa Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and related Disabilities project. It provides training at the graduate and postdoctoral levels in the fields of:
- Audiology
- Clinical psychology
- Health care
- Administration
- Medicine
- Nursing
- Nutrition
- Occupational therapy
- Physical therapy
- Public health social work
- Speech language pathology
The ILEND experience offers:
Advanced clinical preparation to improve the health of individuals with developmental disabilities, chronic health conditions, and other special needs.
Leadership development to improve the health of children with special health care needs and their families through improvements in public policy and systems.
Participants learn and practice skills that focus on family-centered, culturally appropriate, coordinated care. Clinical and administrative training is provided in many ways, and through many venues:
- The ILEND seminar series, "Interdisciplinary Issues in Disabilities"
- The Alfred Healy Clinic at the Center for Disabilities and Development
- Iowa Regional and Mobile
Child
Health Specialty Clinics, Iowa's Title V program for children with
special health care needs - Community programs serving children with, or at risk for, developmental disabilities
- The ILEND Parents as Mentors program
For more information, contact:
Sue Pearson
ILEND Training Coordinator
s-pearson@uiowa.edu
319-356-1172
This website was partially supported
by the Health Resources and Services Administration, Maternal and Child
Health Bureau through grant number T73MC00016-11-01.
