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


19th RI World Congress -- Final Program

Saturday - 08/26/2000

Room: Auditorium 11 am - 7 pm

11:00 - 11:30 am

Dance Presentation - Angel Viana - Mandala Adriana; Isabela Borges; Carlos Eduardo; Sandra

11:40 am - 12:20 pm

Keynote: Ethics of Inclusion: Diversity & Equity - Penny Price - Australia

12:20 - 12:40 pm

Keynote: Business Partnerships: Helping to Open Job Market for People with Disabilities - Miguel Jorge - Volkswagen do Brazil - Brazil

2:00 - 6:45 pm

International Seminar on Community Based Rehabilitation: Concepts for the New Millennium

Sponsors: RI Medical Commission, WHO & Associação para Valorização e Promoção de Excepcionais - AVAPE

Aug 26:2nd Day: Contents of the Day Organized by AVAPE

2:00 pm

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 2:00 - 4:30 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

Room: C2 2:00-6:30 am

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

1st Day:

Conveners: Fred McFarlane, Chairman - Vocational Commission RI; Otto Marques da Silva,Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant to AVAPE

2:30 pm

2:45 - 4:15 pm

2:45 pm

3:15 pm

3:45 pm

4:15 pm

4:30 pm

5:00 - 6:00 pm - Free Communications

5:00 pm

5:15 pm

5:30 pm

5:45 pm

6:00 pm

Room: C3 1:30 - 3:30 pm

VCA (Vascular Cerebral Accidents): Strategies for intervention & rehabilitation

Coordinator: Araújo Leitão, MD, President, Brazilian Academy of Medicine and Rehabilitation

Room: C3 3:45 - 5:00 pm

Current Approaches to People with Alzheimer's

Coordinator: Mario Sayeg, MD

Room: C3 5:10 - 6:45 pm

Panel -Assistive technology

Coordinator: Carmen L. N. de Castro, MD, PhD, Chefe do Serviço de Medicina Física e Reabilitação HU-CFF - UFRJ

Room: D1 1:30-2:30 pm

Equoterapy

Coordinator: Oswaldo dos Santos, MD

Room: D1 2:45 - 3:45 pm

Post-Polio Syndrome: The Effects of Poliomyelitis 40 years later

Coordinator: Lívia Borgneth

Room: D1 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Joint Diseases

Coordinator: Silvia Mello Vargas, MD - Vice-presidente da Fundação José Bonifácio

Room: D1 5:40 - 6:45

Aging & Mental Impairment

Coordinator: Maria Cristina Amendoeira, MD, Brazil, Mestre em Saúde Mental - IPUB - UFRJ

Room: D3 2:00 - 5:30 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 - 2:50 pm

Opening

2:50 - 3:50 pm

Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairements

Moderator: Dorina de Gouvêa Nowill - SP/BR

3:50 - 4:00 pm

4:00 - 4:25 pm

Rehabilitation of People with Visual Impairements (continued)

Moderator : Amilton Garai da Silva- Brazil

4:25 - 4:45 pm

4:45 - 5:00 pm

5:05 - 5:30 pm

Room: E1 1:30 - 4:05 pm

Disability Prevention: Current Projects & Approaches

Coordinator: Marcelo Torres, Brazil

Room: E1 4:15 - 6:30 pm

Ethical Issues & Disability: Cultural Approaches

Coordinator: Isabela de Oliveria D'Andréia, Brazil

Room: E2 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Sports & Recreation - Potential for Social Growth

Coordinator: José Carlos Moraes - CVI - Brazil

Room: E2 4:15- 6:30 pm

Sports Policy Development for People with Disabilities

Coordinator: Augusto Carlos Garcia de Viveiros - INDESP, Brazil

Room: E3 2:00 - 3:45 pm

Brazil: from Model Legislation to Construction of Civil Rights

Coordination: Teresa Costa D'Amaral, IBDD, Brazil

Room: E3 4:00 - 5:30 pm

Social Values & Leisure

Coordinator: Carlos Augusto de Araújo Jorge- Municipal Secretary of Social Development, RJ - Brazil

Room: F1 3:45 - 5:45 pm

Panel: Spiritual Aspects & Disability

Room: F2 1:30-6:45 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

Room: F3 1:30 - 6:45 pm

Seminar: Independent Living: Global Vision and New Approaches

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

1:30-3:30 pm

Philosophy of Independent Living: Changing Paradigms Over Time

Coordination: Lilia Pinto (CVIRJ), Brazil

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Intellectual Disabilities and Independent Living

Coordination: Vera Beatriz Cutin Coordinatora de Instituto APAE, Assistente Social

5:00 - 6:45 pm

Internet and Independent Living Movement

Room: G1 1:30-6:30 pm

Seminar: International Classification of Functioning and Disability-ICIDH-2/WHO

Coordinator: Judith Hollenweger, Chair, RI Education Commission

Room: G2 1:30 - 2:30 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

Room: G2 5:00 - 6:45 pm

Hearing Impairments and Cultural Identity

Coordinator: Leila Couto Mattos

Room: G3 1:30 - 6:45 pm

Course: Genetic Syndromes

Coordinator: Juan Clinton Llerena Jr. - Chefe do Departamento de Genética - Inst. Fernandez Figueiras - FIOCRUZ

Room: G4 1:30-6:30 pm

Seminar: Women with Disabilities: Strategizing for the Future

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

1:30 - 2:00 pm

2:00 - 4:00 pm

Leadership Development of Women with Disabilities in the Independent Living Movement

Moderator: - Kathy Martinez, WID/USA

4:30 - 5:30 pm

Perspectives on Women with Disabilities - Country Reports

Moderator: Barbara Duncan, USA

5:30-6:30 pm

Beijing + 5: Strategies for Future Impact of Women with Disabilities

Moderator: Kathy Martinez, WID/USA

Room: G5 1:30 - 3:00 pm

Higher Education on Rehabilitation & Disability Studies and Societal Demand

Room: G5 4:00 - 6:00 pm

General Concept of Rehabilitation on the University Level

Room: H1 1:30 - 3:30 pm

Role of Family for Inclusion and Quality of Life of People with Disabilities

Room: H2 1:30-6:45 pm

Deafness: Brazilian Federation of the Deaf (FENEIS) & Its Activities to Promote Inclusion for Brazilian Deaf People

Room: H3 3:00 - 6:30 pm

Inclusion Course

Sponsor: U.S. Department of Education

PROGRAM - II

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

Room: Socializing Room: Sólazer

Coordination : Marta Graciela Pereyra Rossielo, Lucia Maria de Resende Sousa

1:00 pm

2:30 pm

4:00 pm

Coordination: Maria José Alves da Silva Oliveira

Poster 15:00 - 16:00 (Portuguese Only)

Poster Session:

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