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


19th RI World Congress -- Final Program

Monday - 08/28/2000

Room: Auditorium 11 am - 7 pm

11:00 - 11:30 am

11:40 am - 12:10 pm

12:10 - 12:40 pm

12:40 - 1:10 pm

2:00 - 6:45 pm

International Seminar on Work and Employment Options in the Twenty-first Century: What does the Immediate Future Hold?

August, 26-29

Sponsorship: Vocational Commission of RI & AVAPE

August 29: 3rd Day:

Conveners: Frank McFarlane (Chairman-Vocational Commission RI), O. M. Da Silva (AVAPE)

2:00 pm

2:15 to 4:30 pm 

BASIC THEME: PARTNERSHIPS FOR EMPLOYMENT

2:15 pm

2:45 pm

3:15 pm 

3:45 pm

4:15 pm

4:30 to 6:30 pm - Free Communications

4:30 pm 

4:45 pm 

5:00 pm

5:15 pm

5:30 pm 

5:45 pm 

6:00 pm 

6:15 pm 

6:45 - 7:00 pm

Room: C1 2:00 - 6:45 pm

Techniques and Approaches in Rehabilitation

Room: C2 1:30-4:00 pm

Panel: Social Welfare Public Policies for People with Disabilities

Coordinator: Álvaro Antonio Machado - Special Secretary of Social Welfare, Brazil

Room: C3 1:30-2:15 pm

Medial Approaches to Spinal Cord Injury

Coordinator: Hilton Baptista, MD - Former President of ABBR

Room: C3 2:30-5:20 pm

Advancements in the Treatment of the Patient with Spinal Cord Injury

Coordinator: Ciro Scala Junior, MD, Santa Casa - SP

Room: C3 5:30 - 6:45 pm

Disabled Persons, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, AIDS and Drug Abuse Prevention

Room: D1 1:30 - 6:45 pm

Panel: Hansen Disease as a Cause of Disability

Coordinator: Maria Katia Gomes, MD - Brazil, Serviço de Dermatologia - HU-CFF - UFRJ

Room: D2 1:30 - 2:30 pm

Free Communications (Portuguese Only)

Room: D2 5:00 - 6:30 pm

Round-Table: Public Prosecution Offices as an Agent of Social Inclusion

Room: D3 2:00 - 6:30 pm

International Seminar: Rehabilitation, Inclusion & Citizenship of People with Visual Impairments

Sponsor: Brazilian Blind Union - UBC

Coordinator: Fundação Dorina Nowill para Cegos - FDNC

2:00 - 2:45 pm

Panel: Support Resourses & Inclusion of People with Visual Impairments

Moderator: Gracimar Álvares Bueno - Brazil

3:45 - 4:00 pm 

4:00 - 4:20 pm

Panel: Support Resourses & Inclusion of People with Visual Impairements (cont.)

Moderator: Carmelino de Souza Vieira - Brazil

4:20 - 4:40 pm

4:40 - 5:00 pm

5:00 - 5:15 pm

5:15 - 6:15 pm

6:15 - 6:30 pm 

Room: E1 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Round Table: Applications of Information and Communication in Education

Room: E1 5:00 - 6:45 pm

Panel: Funlar: From Prevention to Job Market

Room: E2 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Panel: Social Causes of Disabilities: How to Prevent Them

Room: E3 2:00 - 4:30 pm

Free Communications (Portuguese Only)

Room: F1 2:00 - 4:30 pm

Free Communications (Portuguese Only)

Room: F2 2:00 - 4:30 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Speaker's Original Language only)

Room: F3 1:30 - 6:30 pm

Seminar: Independent Living: Global Vision & New Approaches

Sponsors: CVI-RJ, IDEAS for the Next Millennium Project

1:30 - 3:30 pm

Appropriate Technology Serving People with Disabilities

4:00 - 6:00 pm

Innovative Independent Living Experiences in Latin America

Coordinator: Geraldo Pinto Nogueira, CVI Rio

6:00-6:30 pm 

Closing Session

Room: G1 1:30 - 6:45 pm

International Seminar on Accessibility and Universal Design: Searching for Integrated and Universal Transportation

Sponsor: Independent Living Center of Rio de Janeiro (CVI Rio)

1:30 - 2:00 pm

Coordinator: Angela Werneck - CB-40 - ABNT, Permanent Comission on Accessibility, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2:00 - 3:35 pm

Roundtable: Universal Transport

Coordinator: Lilia Pinto Martins -CVI-Rio, Brazil

3:45 - 4:40 pm

Panel: Regulatory, Technical and Legal Advancements

Coordinator: Verônica Camisão - CVI-Rio, Brazil

4:50-6:45 pm

Round-Table: Joint Actions for Integration

Coordinator: Ethel Rosenfeld - CVI-Rio, Brazil

Room: G2 2:30 - 5:00 pm

Free Communications (Portuguese Only)

Room: G3 1:30 - 6:45 pm

Course: Functional Independence Measure - FIM - Second day

Room: G4 1:30 - 6:45 pm

1st Inter-American Dialog on Disability and Development - An Overview of Ongoing Development Programs in Latin America & Perspectives for Future Cooperation

Sponsor: Inter American Institute on Disability

1st Day:

1:30 - 1:45 pm

1:45 - 2:45 pm

Organizational Developement & International Cooperation

Moderator: Rosangela Berman Bieler, President IID

2:45- 3:30 pm:

3:30 - 4:00 pm: 

4:00-5:00 pm:

Women, Children & Human Rights

Moderator: Armando Vásquez, PAHO, Nicaragua

6:00 - 6:45 pm: 

7:00 - 8:00 pm: 

Room: G5 1:30 - 6:30 pm

Seminar: Reducing the Gaps between Research and Practice

Panel: How Governments Fund Research & Development in Rehabilitation

Moderator: Katherine D. Seelman, Director, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education.

Presenters:

Panel Reactors: One or more reactors will describe the challenges and opportunities to establishing such institutes in other countries.

Panel: What Government-sponsored Research Can Do to Advance Development

Moderator: Katherine D. Seelman, Director, National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, US Department of Education.

Presenters:

Panel Reactors: Dr. Izabel Maior and Dr. Carmen de Castro

Room: H1 2:00 - 6:00 pm

The Role of Special Schools in the Context of Inclusive Education

Room: H2 4:30 -6:45 pm

Room: H3 1:30 - 6:30 pm

Inclusion Course (By Invitation Only: for Teachers and School Directors)

Sponsors: U.S. Department of Education/SEESP-MEC

PROGRAM - I

Room: Socializing Room: Sólazer 2:00 - 6:45 pm

Coordination: Adélia Azevedo, Luiz Claúdio Alves Costinha

2:00 pm

3:00 pm

4:00 pm

5:00 pm

Posters 15:00 - 16:00

Posters Session (Portuguese Only)