AUCDigest
July 19, 2006 • Volume 6, Number 63
Forging New Partnerships for New Challenges Through Research, Education and Service
REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION OR ASSISTANCE
Technology Suggestions Requested for AUCD Annual Meeting. As the AUCD Meeting draws closer, a Technology Committee has formed as a sub-committee of the Conference Planning Committee to address the feasibility of utilizing some distance learning strategies (web-casting, video conferencing, audio conferencing, archiving on the AUCD website, etc.) during the event. This would be the first time that AUCD utilizes distance learning technology at the annual meeting; we anticipate potentially recording 1-2 plenary or breakout sessions at this event and then will consider expanding our use of technology at future events. The Technology Committee is interested in determining what the membership might prefer and who may be able to assist us in the planning. If you have any thoughts or ideas on options, best practices, vendors you have a relationship with, programs that meet 508 accessibility, or a possible sponsor for this equipment/services, please contact Evette Mezger or Crystal Pariseau or call the AUCD National Office at 301-588-8252 by July 20, 2006.
Criteria for Defining Best Practices - Request from Center for Disabilities (SD UCEDD). The SD UCEDD is interested in hearing from any UCEDDS that may have clearly defined criteria in use to judge their services/programs from a "best practices" perspective. In other words: What are your criteria for determining if a program or service you offer is "best practice"? Please send responses to Judy Stuck, UCEDD Director.
Call for Papers and Discussants: Putting Memory in Place - Request from the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community (UCEDD). Submission Deadline: October 2, 2006. We seek to bring together scholars, practitioners, and members of the public to explore the relationship between memory and place, with a view to identifying and proposing new technologies that enable local and global communities to resist forces of forgetting, be they environmental, biological or political. The workshop planners will underwrite travel expenses and provide an honorarium to selected applicants. We anticipate that 5-7 papers will be accepted. The workshop will be held in Bloomington, IN February 21-23, 2007. For more information, contact Dr. Phil Stafford at 812-855-2163.
Second Call for Abstracts: FICCDAT - Request from the Developmental Disabilities Institute (MI UCEDD). Call for Abstracts Deadline: November 6, 2006. You are invited to participate in FICCDAT, the Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology, a global festival for businesses, researchers, policy-makers, practitioners, caregivers, seniors and persons with disabilities. Submit a 250 word abstract of a paper or poster through the Online Registration Process. You can submit as many papers to as many of the conferences as you choose with the knowledge that you will only be required to register in one conference to be allowed to present in all. For more information, contact Dr. Barbara LeRoy at 313-577-0334.
Producing a Voting Rights Guide. In time for this November's elections, the Bazelon Center and the National Disability Rights Network are developing a guide to the voting rights of people with mental disabilities for use by advocates and election officials. Personal accounts of problems and how they were resolved will help illustrate the direction and development of this guide. Have you, or has someone you know, ever faced problems in access to registration or voting because of a mental disability, real or perceived? If so, please tell us: when and where (what state); whether the problem was with registration or voting; and how access was impeded, How did you or your advocate address the problem and were you successful? Let us know whether you are willing to participate by sending your account to [email protected].
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