NCRE/RSA/CSAVR National Rehabilitation Education Conference Fall 2013 Conference
Sunday, November 3, 2013 - Tuesday, November 5, 2013 Arlington, Virginia
The National Rehabilitation Education Conference is a means of facilitating communication and sharing information among professionals involved in training, recruiting, hiring and enhancing the development of qualified rehabilitation counselors.
Conference Theme: “Building on the Best: Designs for Success”
International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 2014 World Congress
22-24 June 2014 Mexico City, Mexico
The next FAB World Congress will be in Mexico City, 22-24 June 2014. The Congress theme is Health Care Ethics: Local, Global, Universal.
Fourth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology & Accessibility
October, 24-26, 2013, Hammamet, Tunisia
The Fourth International Conference on ICT & Accessibility is organized by the Research Laboratory of Technologies of Information and Communication & Electrical engineering (LaTICE), of the University of Tunis in collaboration with The Computing Center EL KHAWARIZMI (CCK), with the Co-sponsorship of IEEE Tunisian Section and with the support of:
- The Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research
- The University of Tunis
- The Tunisian association of e-accessibility
- ENSIT
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
• Accessible mobile environments.
• Mobile apps for people with disabilities.
• Software engineering for accessibility.
• Cloud Computing and Assistive Technology services.
• E-learning and accessibility.
• E-learning tools and environments for people with disabilities.
• Human Computer Interfaces for people with disabilities.
• Usability and Ergonomics.
• Web accessibility.
• End user tools for accessibility.
• Assistive technology.
• Technology design for people with multiple impairments.
• Accessibility and usability.
• E-Aging and Gerontechnology.
• Assistive Technology.
• Design for All.
• ICT for inclusive education.
• Automatic translation of Sign languages.
• Technologies for improving communication with Deaf people.
• Representation and Processing of Sign Languages.
Questions about the Conference should be directed to Program Chair: Prof. Mohamed JEMNI,
E-mail: mohamed.jemni@fst.rnu.tn
Phone : +216 71 602 944 / Fax : +216 71 601 930
Learning Disabilities Association of America 2014 Annual Conference
February 19-22, 2014 Anaheim, California
Join us for the 2014 LDA Annual Conference!
LDA’s mission is to create opportunities for success for all individuals affected by learning disabilities and to reduce the incidence of learning disabilities in future generations. LDA believes everyone can succeed at school, at work, in relationships, and in the community—given the right opportunities and supports as needed. Please bring your family, friends and co-workers to the 2014 LDA Conference in Anaheim, CA, for a time of learning and discovering how we can advocate and work together to create new opportunities for children and adults with learning disabilities.
Victorian Body Parts
St Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum, Clerkenwell, United Kingdom Saturday 14th September 2013
The Victorian Body Parts Conference is an interdisciplinary event for postgraduate and early career researchers, and will be held on Saturday 14th September 2013 at St Bart’s Pathology Museum, Clerkenwell.
It is supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies and the Birkbeck Centre for 19th Century Studies.
The conference is being organised by Beatrice Bazell and Emma Curry, both in their 2nd year of PhD research at Birkbeck, working on representations of body parts in Victorian culture.
Why were the Victorians so interested in atomizing the body? What was causing nineteenth-century bodies to come apart at the seams? From articulated bones to beating hearts, from wooden legs to hair bracelets, from death masks to glass eyes, the Victorian body was chattering with its own discorporation.
The results of this fragmentation are successors to the recent scholarly work on material culture in examining the atomisation of the body as a symptom of being surrounded by the commodities generated by the nineteenth century. From objects under glass domes to pieces of the body in glass cases (authentic specimens of which fill St Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum), commodification and dissection have much in common.
This conference thus seeks to explore, develop and enrich perspectives on the numerous and varied ways in which the Victorians approached their anatomy, bringing together postgraduate, early career and established researchers to consider why body parts provided such an urgent and stimulating focus within the nineteenth-century cultural imagination.
Blog:victorianbodyparts.wordpress.com
Twitter: @victbodyparts
2013 Roundtable on Aging and Intellectual Disability
September 19, 2013 – September 20, 2013 Simmons College Boston, Massachusetts
Special Interest Group on Aging with an Intellectual Disability Roundtable
Theme: Bridging between Aging and Intellectual Disabilities
A series of short papers addressing some or all of the following will help guide the Roundtable discussions:
1. Common experiences and challenges in health and aging
2. Bridging the aging and intellectual disability service systems
3. Changing profiles in family caregiving and caregiver supports
4. Redesigning long term services and supports (and/or long term care)
5. Examples of cross-system learning
6. Opportunities from collaboration
2013 International Association of Rehabilitation Professionals Forensic Conference
November 7 – 9, 2013 Charleston, South Carolina
Join us at the The IARP Experience, Honoring the Past, Treasuring the Present, Shaping the Future, 2013 Forensic Conference in beautiful, historic Charleston, South Carolina. The conference offers a powerhouse educational program set in an incredible location.
1st International Workshop on Multimedia-Enabled Aids for Disabilities (MM-AID)
At the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2013), San Jose, California, USA, July 15-19, 2013
The ever-increasing potential and affordability of integrated software and hardware platforms, makes it possible to complement traditional aids with innovative sensing&action devices able to capture and use the information from the environment and from the user. Such information, complemented by appropriate processing technologies, could provide safer and more confortable living environments, empowering users and easing their interaction with the external world and with other people, enhancing usability and quality of experience of aids. This will lead to a new generation of multimedia-enabled utilities for the elderly and impaired people, finalized to an improved quality of life and a better social inclusion. This is a highly cross-disciplinary research area, where a wide range of technologies are encompassed from the design of new sensors and actuators, advanced interfaces and interaction modes, signal processing and understanding technologies, networked and mobile devices, embedded intelligent systems, etc. The objective of this workshop is to collect the most relevant contributions related to the evolution of multimedia-enabled assistive technologies for impaired people, sharing up to date knowledge and advancements in this field through a new forum for the relevant community.
2013 TASH Conference
December 11-14, 2013 Chicago, Illinois
The TASH Conference highlights progressive practices in the disability community. It’s a place where advocates, self-advocates and all variety of professionals and academics converge to share ideas, discuss priorities and take action to create positive change in the lives of people with disabilities.
About the 2013 TASH Conference Theme
A Movement United
By bringing together research, practice and advocacy, the TASH Conference builds bridges between stakeholders in the field and unites them in advancing inclusive lives for people with significant disabilities.
This theme was inspired by three major concerns in our work:
1. People with disabilities are often lumped into segregated (or parallel) systems and services, distancing them from inclusive environments.
2. Systems and services that are effective in including people with disabilities do not communicate with one another, creating gaps.
3. Different stakeholders in the disability field attack issues very differently and don’t necessarily align to advance progress.
IV International Congress of Tourism for All
ONCE Foundation, Ávila, Spain
The ONCE Foundation for cooperation and inclusion of people with disabilities, invites you to participate in the IV International Congress of Tourism for All, which will be held in Ávila, Spain, on 26, 27 and 28 June 2013.
The World Tourism Organization (WTO), the European Network for Accessible Tourism (ENAT), the European Institute of Design for All (EIDD) and the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade are collaborating in this event.
The Congress is aimed at administrations, companies and users of products and services linked to tourism, as well as at all those people and institutions interested in knowing the current and future state of Tourism for All.
This IV International Congress on Tourism for All will have as its central focus the Cultural and Historical Heritage. It is intended for all professionals of culture, with the aim of enhancing their participation in the tourism sector and the objective of establishing the Accessibility and Design for All, thus promoting the inclusion of people with special needs.
Objectives
To make the tourism sector aware on the need to establish strong guidelines for Design for All and Universal Accessibility.
To know and disseminate examples of good practices of Tourism for All.
To show the profitability of the proposals of Accessible Tourism to the sector.
To unify criteria of accessibility in Tourism for All.
To enhance the role of culture as a source of tourist resources.
To consider the elaboration of realistic and rigorous technical projects that facilitate the conversion of cultural potential into tourism products tailored to everyone´s needs.
To show the employment opportunities for people with disabilities within the growing development of cultural tourism.
To raise awareness of the need to achieve full accessibility of culture for the progress and development of our society, where a greater visibility and an active participation of people with disabilities will be a reality.
To achieve a greater participation of cultural actors in the tourism industry for all.
