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


19th RI World Congress -- Final Program

Tuesday - 08/29/2000

Room: Auditorium 11 am - 7 pm

11:00-11:30 am

11:40 am - 12:40 pm

Panel: Making the Dream a Reality: Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities

12:40 - 1:10 pm

5:30 - 7:00 pm

7:00 pm

Confraternization

Coordination: Alexandre Santiago/Lair Moraes Lopes/Paulo Sergio Fernandes da Silva

Room: C1 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Organizational Development of Disability NGOs

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

August 29 -4th Day:

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

2:00 pm

2:15 to 3:45 pm - Free Communications

2:15 pm 

2:30 pm 

2:45 pm 

3:00 pm

3:15 pm

3:30 pm

3:45 pm

4:00 pm

4:30 pm

5:00 pm 

5:15 pm 

Room: C3 1:30 - 3:00 pm

Cerebral Palsy

Coordinator: Claudio Gomes, MD, Presidente da Sociedade Brazileira de Medicina Física e Reabilitação

Room: C3 3:15-4:30 pm

Program on Urban Violence Prevention

Room: D2 

Free Communications (Portuguese Only)

Room: D3 1:30 - 4:30 pm

Proposed UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities: Pros and Cons

Moderator: Dave Henderson - RI

Room: D3 5:00-5:45 pm

Room: E1 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Information as a Tool for Prevention of Disabilities

Coordenadora : Alcionis Ennes de Oliveira Nascimento, Brazil

Room: E1 4:00 - 5:00 pm

Art: A Dialog with Diversity

Coordenadora: Albertina Brazil - Very Special Arts - Brazil

Room: E2 2:00 - 4:30 pm

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

Room: E3 2:00 - 4:30 pm

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

Room: F1 2:00 - 4:30 pm

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

Room: F2 2:00 - 6:30 pm

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

Room: F3 2:30-5:00 pm

Global Overview: Social Welfare Policies for People with Disabilities

Coordinator: Álvaro Antonio Machado- Secretaria de Assistência Social, Brazil

Room: G1 1:30 - 6:30 pm

1:30 - 3:00 pm

Seminar: Concepts and Programs in Social Rehabilitation

Sponsors: RI Social Commission

Programs of Social Rehabilitation

Moderator: Dave Henderson, New Zealand

3:00 - 6:00 pm

Programs of Social Rehabilitation (Continuing)

Moderator: Mr. Erkki Kemppainen, Finland

Room: G3 4:45 - 6:45 pm

Course: Adapted Pedagogic Material (Portuguese Only)

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 (IID)

2nd Day:

1:30-2:00 pm

Education & Employment Programs

Moderator: Eileen Girón Batres, Secretary IID, ACOGIPRI, El Salvador

2:00 - 2:45 pm

Land Mine & CBR Programs

Moderator: Tomas Lagerwall, Swedish Handicap Institute, Sweden

2:45 - 3:15 pm

3:30-4:30 pm

Voluntarism, Individual and Institutional Support

Moderator: Lucy Wong-Hernandez, Disabled Peoples International

4:30-5:00 pm

Multi and Bi-Lateral Agencies: Options for NGO's

Moderator: Silvia B. Sagari, Inter-American Development Bank, Division of Finances & Infrastructure, Region 1

5:00 - 5:30 pm

5:30 pm 

Room: G5 1:30 - 3:30 pm

People with Disabilities in Governmental Positions: a Way of Implementing the Socio-Political Model of Disability?

Moderator: Kay Schreiner

Room: G5 3:30-5:00 pm

Media & Disability: A Global Overview

Coordinator - Barbara Duncan, RI

Room: H1 2:00-4:00 pm

Arts, Culture & Disability

Room: H1 4:30 - 6:45 pm

Initiatives in Sports & Recreation

Room: H2 2:00- 5:00 pm

Course: Rehabilitation of People with Ostomies Around the World

Session's President: Izabel Loureiro Maior

Secretary: Cândia Carvalheira, President, Brazilian Society of People with Ostomies

Room: H2 5:15 - 6:30 pm

Panel: Hidden Hunger and Brazil's Health Situation

Coordenadora: Valeria Braulio Bender. MD - Faculdade de Medicina - UFRJ

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 - II

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

Coordination : Adélia Azevedo, Luiz Claúdio Alves Costinha

2:00 pm

3:00 pm

4:45 - 6:45 pm

Curso: Material Pedagógico Adaptado

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