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From: chris.brown@devcan.ca

News Release
15 May 1996

National Conference on
Children with Sensitivities

Ottawa - 31 May, 1 June
Algonquin College Woodroffe Cafeteria

     Many children experience health, learning or behaviour problems 
when they eat certain foods, or when exposed to pollution.  That's the 
subject of the upcoming National Conference on Children with 
Sensitivities, sponsored by the Allergy and Environmental Health 
Association.  It's on the weekend bridging National Access Awareness 
Week, and National Environment Week.  Keynote speaker is Dr. Doris J. 
Rapp, MD, a pediatric allergist specializing in environmental medicine, 
recommended by the Ontario Ministry of Education and Training.  Dr. 
Rapp, an internationally renowned authority and author on children with 
sensitivities - The Impossible Child, and Is This Your Child? - is 
perhaps the foremost expert on the subject in North America.  

     Also at the conference - an update on the new, provincially-funded 
clinic for people with environmental health problems, at Women's College
Hospital in Toronto.  And experts from several fields will share 
practical solutions to helping children with sensitivities, including 
the Ontario Medical Association's special education advisor, CMHC air-
quality researchers, builders knowledgeable about indoor air quality, a 
psychologist who deals with children with behaviour problems caused by 
sensitivities, school board representatives from Ontario boards 
accommodating this sometimes disabling problem, and representatives from
the Learning Disabilities Association, the Lung Association, and the 
Allergy and Environmental Health Association (AEHA).

Registration and Conference Chair - Elizabeth Stutt (AEHA), 613-825-8388
Media Inquiries - Chris Brown (AEHA), 613-236-7683, and
 Dr. Doris J. Rapp, pediatric allergist, author, 800-787-8780
 Dr. William J. Mahoney, MD, Chedoke-McMaster, 905-521-2100, ext 7605
 Dr. Jeff Phillips, psychologist, 705-476-1635
 Dr. Frank Foley, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, 800-417-7092
 Tracy Odell, Ministry of Education and Training, 416-325-2093
 Bruce Small, General Manager, Green Eclipse, 905-642-8866
 Debra Wright, Indoor Air Quality, CMHC, 416-495-2065
 Heather Holden, parent, Halton Board, 905-639-8736 (hm)

Sponsored by Canada Mortgage and Housing, Justice Canada, Ontario 
Ministry of Health, National Access Awareness Week, Ottawa-Carleton 
Regional Health Department, Allergy and Environmental Health 
Association.
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