Events relating to disabled health care professionals

Deaf People and Mental Health online conference

This online conference takes place 4th - 6th of December.

Sessions confirmed are:

Keynote presentation: Dr. Brendan Monteiro.
Keynote presentation: Dr. Robert Pollard (The impact of experience on clinicians' judgments regarding psychosis symptoms in Deaf patients).
Brian Berlinski on Best practices in treatment for children who were exposed to domestic violence.
Dr. Sara Rhys Jones, Ged Davies and Dr. Sophie Roberts on Using videoconferencing in mental health services for deaf children.
Lara Denman on Providing culturally responsive mental health care to deaf indigenous and CALD people.
Dr. Erez Miller and Dr. Amazia Weisel on Social and emotional challenges of deaf students in special education in Israel.
Ben Karlin on Bending the Rules - interpreting in mental health settings.
Naomi Sharples Deaf people's access to nursing education (provisional title).
Dr. Cathy Chovaz McKinnon and Laurel Putman on The development of the Mental Health Services for the Deaf* (MHSD) clinic, Ontario (provisional title).

Abstracts, presenter bios programme and information on how it all works can be seen at the above web site. Cost for the conference is UK £60.

Judith Mole
Direct Learn Services Ltd.

http://www.online-conference.net: online conferencing
http://www.directlearn.co.uk/ : general information

Sign up for the next Supporting Deaf People online conference at http://www.online-conference.net/sdp2006/introduction.htm

AchieveAbility <http://www.achieveability.org.uk/> : Widening Participation? The SpLD Voice - 22 June 2006, London.

The AchieveAbility Aimhigher National project is holding a conference to allow the voice of those with Specific Learning Differences to be heard in relation to the national widening participation agenda.
The potential loss of intellectual talent to education and employment is the central issue which will be explored in presentations, seminar sessions and by the keynote speakers Bill Rammell MP, minister for further and higher education, and Shirley Cramer, Chief Executive of Dyslexia Action.
The conference will be an opportunity for delegates to learn about the project’s activities, celebrate the achievements, explore the issues raised and receive unique findings from research carried out by the HE Academy. Further information and the programme can be found on the project website at
http://www.achieveability.org.uk/extra61.html

Disabled people entering and working in healthcare practice: Time to take stock?

A one day conference for healthcare educators and representatives of qualifications and professional bodies

Date: Thursday 25 November 2004
9.30am - 4.30pm
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)
Belgravia House
62-64 Horseferry Road
London, SW1P 2AF

Contact: Anne Tynan, or telephone 020 7468 5056.

Aims of conference:
There have been 2 key catalysts for this conference:

Reactions to the recent reports ‘Pushing the Boat Out’ (2003) and ‘The Sequel’ (2004), on the admission of students with disabilities to medical, dental and veterinary schools
Extension of the Disability Discrimination Act to cover Qualifications Bodies from 1 October 2004.

For further information: http://www.ltsn-01.ac.uk/diverse/events/

Supporting Students with Disabilities: Moving Towards Inclusion

9 July, 2004

London South Bank University

During this free one-day event (which includes lunch), several projects
concerning disabled students will be discussing some of their findings.

Projects involved are:

Dyslexicon, who have developed and are currently testing an intervention programme to help dyslexic students learn to spell
difficult subject-specific words in psychology and other disciplines;
SPACE (Staff-Student Partnership for Assessment Change and Evaluation), who are developing and promoting alternative and more inclusive forms of assessment;
IPDPS (Improving Provision for Disabled Psychology Students), who are developing resources to facilitate an improved learning experience for disabled psychology students; and
Writing PAD (Writing Purposefully in Art and Design), which aims to raise awareness of the common problems that many Art & Design students encounter with traditional writing practices.

For more information visit http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/psycho/dyslexicon/
Contact Theo Martinez to register for this event, email: r.martinez@plymouth.ac.uk

Tel: 01752 232284.

The Fifth International Conference on Higher Education and Disability

Innsbruck, Austria: July 27-30, 2004

Scanning the Horizon: An International Collaboraton on Higher Education and Disability.

This event will build on the success of the first four groundbreaking conferences held at the University of Innsbruck in 1992, 1995, 1998, and 2001. Participants represented universities, institutions, and learning centers from Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and 25 Eastern and Western European countries. The participants profited from exchanging ideas about approaches, programs, and best practices. They also enjoyed an easy camaraderie with an international group of colleagues gathered in an intimate, working conference. Using the information and experience from the previous events, this conference will equip participants with tools and resources to build successful programs and further develop our network of international colleagues.

Further information from: www.unotrac.org/innsbruck.htm

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Events relating to disabled health care professionals

Disabled people entering and working in healthcare practice: Time to take stock?

Supporting Students with Disabilities: Moving Towards Inclusion

The Fifth International Conference on Higher Education and Disability