Dear Bobath Therapist,
By completing the Basic Bobath Course in accordance with EBTA standards, you have made a strong start as a Bobath Therapist. You have learnt to conduct a holistic assessment of the child and family within the ICF framework, to examine the relationship between movement and function, and to provide clinical reasoning from a Bobath perspective.
But what about the first 12 months of life? Today, the risk of cerebral palsy (CP) can be identified in the first months of life, and current evidence clearly tells us: it is not a case of ‘wait and see’, but rather ‘detect early and act early’. This is because the 0–12-month period is not merely a time of rapid development; it is a unique window of opportunity in terms of brain plasticity, motor learning and experience-dependent development.
However, starting early is not enough on its own! The EBTA-certified, internationally recognised Advanced Bobath Infant Course is exclusively for Bobath therapists and builds upon the clinical reasoning skills you acquired in the Basic Bobath training, adapting them to the specific needs of infants at high risk of CP and those with neurodevelopmental issues identified at an early stage. What do I see in the Advanced Bobath Infant Course? Why do I see it? Why is this infant choosing this movement strategy? What experience supports their active movement and learning? And how do I translate this into the infant’s daily life? The course will enable you to address these questions using the Clinical Rationale Framework—developed exclusively within the Bobath concept—whilst aligning with the ICF.
Neuroplasticity—as highlighted by current early intervention science—along with active, baby-initiated movement, motor learning, task- and context-specificity, an enriched environment and family involvement, all align with the Bobath clinical rationale; during this period, no intervention takes place solely between the ‘baby and the therapist’. Listening to the family, strengthening parent-infant interaction—that is, strengthening the family—and transferring the opportunities we create in therapy into the infant’s real life form the foundation of early intervention.
The Basic Bobath training has given you a strong start. Now is the time to bring this clinical perspective to the very earliest stages of life. Because early detection is important, and early intervention is important. But what we do, why we do it, when we do it and how we do it are far more important. As the Education Committee of the Turkish Bobath Therapists’ Association, we invite you to the EBTA Bobath Advanced Baby Course, featuring international Bobath trainers.
EBTA Bobath Advanced Baby Course in collaboration with the Turkish BTD and the Belgian BTD
Course Instructors: Josse De Cat, Marleen D’honth, Mintaze Kerem Günel, Feride Bilir.
Course Dates: 7–11 November 2026 and 5–9 December 2026
Course Venue: Ankara,
Registration and contact: bobath@diamed98.com
Telephone: 05316284549
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