Disability World
A bimonthly web-zine of international disability news and views, Issue no. 7 March-April 2001


19th RI World Congress -- Final Program

Friday - 08/25/2000

Room: Auditorium 11 am - 7 pm

11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Opening Ceremony

Brazilian National Anthem (Marines' Band) Solo, Sara Bentes

Opening Reception

1:00-1:30 pm

Opening Keynote: Inclusion, Human Rights & Disability in the New Millennium - José Gregori, Minister of Justice, Brazil

1:30-2:00 pm

Keynote: Human Rights and People with Disabilities: Challenges for the Future - Bengt Lindqvist, UN Special Rapporteur, Sweden

2:00-2:30 pm

Keynote: Collaboration among International Organizations Representing People with Disabilities - Lex Frieden, The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, USA

2:30 - 6:45 pm

International Seminar on Community Based Rehabilitation:Concepts for the New Millennium, 25 to 27 of August

Sponsors: RI Medical Commission, World Health Organization (WHO) & Associação para Valorização e Promoção de Excepcionais (AVAPE)

Contents of the Day - Organized by WHO and Rehabilitation International

2:30 pm 

3:00 pm 

3:30 pm 4:00 pm 4:30 pm 5:00 pm 5:30 pm 6:00 pm 6:30 pm 6:45 - 7:00 pm

Room: C1 2:30 - 6:45 pm

Best Practices in Access to Appropriate Health Care for People with Disabilities

Sponsor: RI Medical Commission & Commission on Organization and Administration

Moderator: Ilene Zeitzer , Chair, Commission on Organization & Administration

Assistant Moderator: Martin Grabois, M.D.

Introduction to course - Martin Grabois, M.D., USA

Room: C2 2:30 - 4:00 pm

Free Communications

Employment Issues and Initiatives

Room: C2 4:30 - 6:45 pm

Round Table: Microcredit as an Approach to Income Generation

Room: C3 2:30 - 3:20 pm

Elders

Coordinator: Mario Sayeg

Presentation: Elderly & Abuse: Laura Mosqueda - Director of Geriatrics at the University of California Irvine, College of Medicine

Room: C3 3:40-4:10 pm

Presentation: Appropriate Telecommunication Technology to Promote Safety, Independence and Social Interaction for Elders with Disability: William Mann - State University of New York at Buffalo

Room: C3 4:15 - 6:45 pm

Chronic Pain

Coordinator: Claudia Fonseca, MD - Brazil, Hospital Arapiara, MG

Room: D2 2:30 - 4:00 pm (Portuguese Only)

Free Communications

Room: D2 4:15 - 5:15 pm

Room: D2 5:30 - 6:15 pm

Room: D3 2:30 - 4:30 pm

Disability & Human Rights: New Approaches

Room: D3 5:00 - 6:45 pm

Implementing the Standard Rules for Equalization of Opportunities for People with Disabilities

Room: E1 2:30 - 4:30 pm

Training of Educators and Educational Special Needs

Coordinator: Antonio Lino de Sá Rodrigues

Room: E1 4:40 - 6:45 pm

Education & Leisure - its impact on the individual's holistic formation

Coordinatora: Maria Angela de A. Barreto

Room: E2 5:00 - 6:30 pm

People First: A New Approach for the Representation of People with Intellectual Disabilities

Coordinator: - Vera Beatriz Cutin, Instituto APAE, SP, Brazil

Room: E3 1:30 - 5:30 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

Room: F3 2:30 - 4:30 pm

Disability & Public Policy: International Examples

Room: G1 2:30 - 4:30 pm

Accessibility Issues and the Internet

Coordinator: Francisco Godinho, Access Unity, Ministry of Science and Technology, Portugal

Room: G1 4:45 - 6:45 pm

Innovative Disability Studies

Coordinator: Nora Groce, Yale University School of Public Health, USA

Room: G2 2:30 - 3:30 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

Room: G3 4:45 - 6:45 pm

Course: Adapted Pedagogical Material (Portuguese Only)

Room: G4 3:30-6:30 pm

Seminar: Women with Disabilities: Strategizing for the Future

Sponsors: RI, World Institute on Disability, Disabled Peoples' International, CVI Rio, ONEDEF

3:30 - 4:00 pm

Keynote: The Situation of Women with Disabilities: A Global Overview - Robyn Hunt, Board Chair, Workbridge, New Zealand

4:00 - 6:30 pm

Panel: Education & Training Initiatives Focused on Inclusion of Women with Disabilities

Moderator: Barbara Duncan, RI/USA

Room: G5 2:30 - 4:30 pm

The Ethics of Interdisciplinary Work

Coordination: Leda Mirian de Andrade Rosmaninho

Room: G5 4:45 - 6:30 pm

Early Stimulation & Intervention

Room: H2 2:30 - 4:30 pm

Round Table: Professional Education as a Mechanism of Integration of People with Disabilities - the Planfor Experience - Ministry of Labor, Brazil

Room: H3 3:00 - 6:30 pm

Inclusion Course

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education/OSERS

PROGRAM - I

Room: Socializing Room: Sólazer 2:30 - 6:45 pm

Coordination : Karla Salomão Campelo, Miriam Matos, Elizabeth Cardoso Chagas

2:30 pm

Opening: Lizair de Moraes Guarino & Marlene Morgado

4:00 pm

Recreation Workshop: Games of My Childhood: Marta Margareth Beier & Valéria Sobreira Louven

5:30 pm

Dance Workshop: Lair Morais Lopes & Marcos Luiz da Silva

Posters 3:00 - 4:00 pm

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