Lecturer Details: Behaviour Management for Children and The Dental Management of the Autistic Child

Lecturer nameMs Wendy Bellis BDS, MSc.Paediatric Dentistry, FHEA
Lecturer profileQualifications:
BDS, MSc.Paediatric Dentistry, FHEA

Qualified as a dental surgeon since 1979 (London ),MSc. Paediatric Dentistry Eastman Dental Institute, London 1983,Fellow of The Higher Education Academy(2007)
Wendy Bellis is a Specialist Paediatric Dentist and Honorary Clinical Senior Teaching Fellow at the Eastman Dental Institute, London. Since 1985 she has worked in the Community Dental Service in Camden and Islington in London and has gained extensive experience of working with children who have special needs.
Her areas of expertise are “Behaviour Management for Children in the Dental Surgery “and “The Dental Management of the Autistic Child”. Following the completion of her MSc in 1983 in child behaviour, she is responsible for the teaching modules on Behaviour Management at a postgraduate level on the MSc/MClin.Dent/ Doctorate programmes in both Paediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics at the Eastman Dental Institute. For a number of years, her clinical work has almost exclusively been in the field of autistic spectrum disorder, with autistic children representing 90 % of her clinical case load.
Combining her knowledge and experience in both these fields she lectures widely on these subjects nationally and internationally at IAPD,EAPD and IADH. She has contributed chapters to current and well known textbooks in general and paediatric dentistry and is responsible for the content of the new leaflet for parents of autistic children which appears on the website for the British Society of Paediatric Dentistry.
Utilising her ground breaking work at The TreeHouse School in north London, Wendy teaches how incorporating elements of Applied Behavioural Analysis into the dental management of autistic children can help them develop the skills to cope, not only with preventive care in the home, but also dental treatment in the surgery.