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A "Think Competence" community strategy team held a four-hour summit in
Spencer that challenged community members to make their city more inclusive for
people with disabilities.
Nearly 100 people gathered on October 15 for the summit, which was co-sponsored by the Spencer ADA Task Force and other community organizations. Keynote speaker Kathie Snow, author of Disability is Natural, spoke about the importance of attitudes and language, and the limits of labels and definitions. Participants split into groups to brainstorm ways to enhance education, business, employment, recreation, worship, and social opportunities. Local community theater actors performed skits that demonstrated stereotypes and misconceptions about people with disabilities.
Summit organizers were members of a community strategy team that participated in the "Think Competence" workshop last spring. The summit was one of twelve community inclusion projects that received grants from the Governor's Developmental Disabilities Council and the Center for Disabilities and Development.
Pictured are summit participants and organizers from the Spencer community.
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You can go straight to the calendar of events at www.DisabilityTraining.org/calendar, or browse through past issues of Possibilities at www.DisabilityTraining.org/possibilities. The site also offers hundreds of links to state, national, and international groups and organizations, with easy-to-use indexes and Bobby-approved formatting.
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2002 TASH Conference
Our Quest: Opportunity, Equality, Justice
December 11-14, Boston, Massachusets
For more information, call 800-482-TASH, email
registration@tash.org, or
see
http://www.tash.org/2002conference/.
Third Annual Project Choices/Least Restrictive Environment Institute
January 31, 2003, Holiday Inn Select Hotel, Naperville, Illinois (30
miles west of Chicago)
For more information, call 630-778-4508 or email
projectchoices@projectchoices.org.
Iowa Parent-Educator Connection 19th Annual Conference
February 10-11, 2003, Scheman Center, Ames
Sponsored by Iowa Department of Education, Parent-Educator Connection
Program, and the Bureau of Children, Family, and Community Services.
Topics include: Brain Research, The New IEP Process, Autism and Law
Enforcement, and The Explosive Child. Registration: $20 (some scholarships
available for first-time attendees).
For more information, call 800-542-8375 x. 4358 or 319-273-8265.
Second Annual American Association of People with Disabilities Leadership Gala
March 4, 2003, Washington, D.C.
For more information, see the AAPD website at http://www.aapd-dc.org/.
Fifth National Conference on Children Who Are Medically Fragile or Technology Dependent
March 31, April 1 and 2, 2003, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This biennial event brings together more than 400 individuals from
healthcare, child welfare, education, law and government along with family
members. The 2003 theme -- Building Relationships, Respecting Diversity --
connects many topics. For more information, see
http://www.kencrest.org/medfrag/conf.html or
email kencrest@kencrest.org.
Annual Wisconsin Conference on Augmentative Alternative
Communication and Assistive Technologies: Technology and Literacy for All
April 10-11, 2003, Holiday Inn Campus Area, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Registration: $135. Application Deadline to submit proposals: Friday,
December 13, 2002. For more
information, see www.uwec.edu/ce/aacat.htm.
Iowa Association of Community Providers Annual Convention and Trade Show
April 15-17, 2003, Scheman Building, Iowa State Center, Ames
For more information, see Iowa Association of Community Providers.
Presentation proposals are due by November 29.
ADA Symposium and EXPO 2003
June 3-5, Hyatt Regency Crown Center, Kansas City, Missouri
For more information, call 800-949-4232 or email ada@missouri.edu
For more conference and training opportunities, see the Disability Training calendar.
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I do not believe the future will belong to those who are content with the present....The future will belong to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
--US Senator Paul Wellstone, 1944-2002
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POSSIBILITIES is funded in part through a grant from the Iowa Department of Human Services to support the activities of the Iowa Training Consortium. Possibilities is designed by Loretta Popp.
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