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


19th RI World Congress -- Final Program

Sunday - 08/27/2000

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 Community Based Rehabilitation: Concepts for the New Millennium

25 to 27 of August

Sponsors: RI Medical Commission, WHO & AVAPE

August 27:3rd 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

Closing Cultural & Recreational Activity for the Day - Solazer

Room: C1 1:30 - 6:45 pm

Course: Low vision

Coordinator: Profa. Silvia Veitzman, Profa. Doutora - USP

Room: C2 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

2nd Day:

Conveners: Margareth O'Leary (Vocational Commission RI), O. M. Da Silva (AVAPE)

2:00 pm 

2:15 to 4:15 pm - BASIC THEME: EMPLOYMENT AND WORK OPTIONS

2:15 pm 

2:45 pm

3:15 pm

3:45 pm 

4:15 pm 

4:30 to 5:00 pm - Free Communications

4:30 pm

4:45 pm 

5:00 pm

5:30 to 6:30 pm - Free Communications

5:30 pm 

5:45 pm

6:00 pm

6:15 pm 

6:30pm 

Room: C3 1:30 - 3:30 pm

People with Parkinson's: Clinical and Functional Aspects

Room: C3 3:45 - 6:45 pm

Wheelchair Building

Room: D1 1:30 - 2:30 pm

Amputations and Rehabilitation of the Child, Adult and Elder

Coordinator: Mauro Pena, MD, Chefe do SMFR - Hospital Pedro Ernesto, Chefe do SMFR - Hospital Servidores do Estado

Room: D1 2:45 - 4:45 pm

Technological Advancements in Prostheses and Orthoses Room: D1 5:00 - 6:45 pm

Panel - Interdisciplinary Commitment for the Rehabilitation of People with Low Vision

Coordinator: Ethel Rosenfeld

Room: D2 1:30 - 4:00 pm (Portuguese Only)

Round Table: Prevention & Early Diagnosis

Coordinator : Sandra Barbosa, Brazil

Room: D2 1:30 - 4:30 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

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 - 2:20 pm

2:20 - 3:00 pm

Panel: Low Vision: Challenges

Moderator: Maria Gloria Peniza- Venezuela

3:00 - 3:45 pm

Educational & Rehabilitatory Approaches

3:45 - 4:00 pm

4:00 - 4:40 pm

Panel: Low Vision (cont.)

Moderator: Tomazia Dirce Perez Lora - BR

4:40 - 5:00 pm

Low Vision: Optical Resources

5:00 - 5:30 pm 

Room: E1 2:30 - 4:30 pm

Challenges for Inclusion of Students with Special Education Needs

Coordinator: Sarah Couto Cesar

Room: E1 4:45 - 6:45 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

Room: E3 4:15 - 6:45 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

Room: F1 1:30-5:30 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

Room: F2 2:00 - 5:00 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

Room: F3 1:30 - 6:45 pm

Seminar: Independent Living: Global Visions & New Approaches

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

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Personal Assistance Models

3:00 - 4:30 pm

Service Animals: Cultural and Economic Approaches

4:30 - 6:45 pm

Parenting and Disability Issues

Room: G1 1:30-6:45 pm

Seminar: Accessibility & Universal Design: Looking Forward to a Universal Design

1:30 pm

2:15 pm

Panel: Governmental Gestions Pró-Accessibility

4:00 pm

Panel: Actions of the Third Sector

5:00 pm

Round Table: Multiples Aspects of Accesibility

6:00 pm

Round Table: Structuring an Accessible Panorama

Room: G2 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Free Communications (No Translation - Original Language of Presenters)

Room: G2 4:30 - 6:45 pm

Family and Social Inclusion of Students with Disabilities

Room: G3 2:30- 4:00 pm

Course: Peer-Counseling

Room: G3 4:45 - 6:45 pm (Portuguese Only)

Course: Adapted Pedagogic Material

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

2:00-3:30 pm

Sexuality & Quality of Life of Women with Disabilities

4:00 - 6:30 pm

Women with Disabilities: Health and Reproductive Issues

Moderator: Lilia Pinto Martins, CVI Rio/Brazil

Room: G5 4:30 - 6:45 pm

Re-examining Approaches to Teaching in the Era of Inclusion

Room: H1 2:30-4:30 pm

Advancements in Rehabilitation Technology

Coordinator: Fabio Gandorur

Room: H1 4:45 - 6:15 pm

Advancements in Rehabilitation Technology

Room: H2 1:30 - 6:45 pm

Course: Functional Independence Measure - FIM - First day

Room: H3 1:30 - 6:45 pm

Course -Multifactoral Model of the American Association of Mental Retardation (AAMR)

Coordinator: Juan Llerena Jr.

Room: Socializing Room: Sólazer 1:00 - 6:45

Coordination: Adélia Azevedo, Luiz Claúdio Alves Costinha

1:00 pm

2:45 pm

4:30 pm

Posters 15:00 - 16:00

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