Welcome to the Developmental Disabilities Division website!
History
The Developmental Disabilities Program (DDP) was established within the UWO Department of Psychiatry in 1988. Divisional status within the Department of Psychiatry was granted in 2004 to allow a broader based group from a variety of clinical disciplines, with expertise in the field of developmental disabilities across the life span, to come together with a higher profile and representation on the Chair’s Advisory Committee within the Department of Psychiatry.
Mandate & Overarching Functions
- Academic leadership: Provide academic leadership to inculcate the attitudes, skills and knowledge of the discipline of developmental disabilities.
- Development: Contribute to the development of expertise in developmental disabilities of both programs and people through collaboration, outreach and education across the Southwestern Ontario.
- Resource management: Provide a mechanism for recruiting and retaining psychiatrists, physicians and allied health clinicians while providing a forum for decision making, regarding human and financial resources and operational and strategic planning in collaboration with other partners.
- Communication: Provide a forum for communication between members from diverse backgrounds and agencies.
- Advocacy: Function in an advocacy role for the needs of individuals with developmental handicaps by advocating for the academic development of developmental disabilities and dual diagnosis within the Departments of Psychiatry, Family Medicine, Paediatrics, allied health disciplines and both university and college health sciences and human sciences programs.
- Prevention: Strive to develop ways and means for the early detection of developmental disabilities (secondary prevention) and psychiatric complications (tertiary prevention).
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Contact
519-455-5110
ext. 47694
ddd@uwo.ca
850 Highbury Avenue
Room E126
London, Ontario, N6A 4H1
Canada
