Society for Disability Studies meeting
F. Pennell
fpennell at u.washington.edu
Tue Mar 30 09:16:09 PST 1999
Here is a summary of the upcoming meeting of the Disabilities
Studies Society. Looks to be really interesting!! Francie Pennell
>From the web page
http://members.tripod.com/~disabilitystudies/program99.html
SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY STUDIES 1999 ANNUAL MEETING
CONTENTS
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Preliminary Program:
"DISABILITY ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES"
Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Society for Disability Studies
Hyatt Regency Washington in Washington, DC
May 27-30, 1999
Last updated on March 26, 1999
Thursday, May 27
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
PLENARY SESSION: Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults
with Disabilities
Columbia B
Moderator: Becky Ogle, Executive Director, President's
Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities,
Department of Labor
Susan Daniels, Deputy Commissioner, Social Security
Administration, Office of Disability and Income
Security Programs
John Lancaster, Executive Director, President's
Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities
Frederick Schroeder, Commissioner, Rehabilitation
Services Administration, U.S. Department of Education
Susan Swenson, Commissioner, Administration on
Developmental Disabilities, Department of Health and
Human Services
Bob Williams, Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care, Department of
Health and Human Services
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch Sessions
1. PERFORMANCE: Jump-Start the Art
Columbia A
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Jim Ferris, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University
2. A Case Study: The Impact of the Workforce Recruitment Program
for College Students in the Federal and Private Sectors
Columbia B
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Moderator: Jennifer Kemp, President's Committee on
Employment of People with Disabilities, Special
Assistant to the Chairman
Judy Gilliom, Department of Defense, Disability
Program Manager
Betsy Freidman, President's Committee on Employment of
People with Disabilities, Program Specialist
3. WORKSHOP: Futures Research and Disability Studies: Scenarios
(Preferred, Possible and Probable)
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
Leader: Robin Brandt, University of Hawaii at Manoa
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Sessions
1. International Perspectives
Columbia A
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
"Interdependence: Reviewing International Perspectives
on Independent Living," Tanis Doe and Kathy Martinez,
IDEAS 2000 World Institute on
Disability/Rehabilitation International, Canada
"Preliminary Research on the Japanese People's
Perceptions of People with Disabilities," Miho
Iwakuma, University of Oklahoma
"Between Equality and Difference - The Politics of
Disability Rights in Japan," Katharina Heyer,
University of Hawaii
"On the Margins of the Movement: People with Learning
Difficulties and Disability Activism in the UK,"
Leanne Dowse, University of New South Wales, Australia
"Disability Studies and Nurse Education - Building
Understandings," Penelope M. Kearney, University of
Western Sydney - Nepean, Australia
2. DISCIPLINARY FOCUS PANEL: Health, Disability, and Independent
Living in the Graduate Public Health Curriculum, Part I
Columbia B
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Moderator: Allan R. Meyers, Boston University
Adrienne Asch, Wellesley College
Lauri Harbison, Boston University
Rachel Tanenhaus, Boston University
Judy Heumann, Department of Education
Donald Lollar, Office on Disability and Health
3. Literature, Narrative and Disability
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
"Barnaby Rudge, Violence and Paternalism: Politicizing
the Natural," Patrick McDonagh, Concordia University,
Canada
"Figures Beyond the Margin: Disabled Characters in Two
Novels by Willa Cather," Jennifer Sutton, University
of Oregon
"Narrative in a Narrative: The Diane Story" Marj
Schneider, University of Minnesota
"'No Friend of the Third Reich': Disability as the
Basis of Anti-fascist Resistance in Arnold Zweig's Das
Beil von Wandsbek," Carol Poore, Brown University
4:00 -5:30 p.m. Sessions
1. Marginalization and Self-Determination
Columbia A
4:00 -5:30 p.m.
"Voices of Silence: Autism and the Question of
Self-Determination," Nirmala Erevelles, Auburn
University
"Creating a Life of One's Own: A Collaborative
Research Approach," Catherine Frazee & Beverley Antle,
West Park Hospital, Toronto, Canada
"A Model of Self-Determination" Stephen Gilson,
Virginia Commonwealth University & Elizabeth DePoy,
University of Maine - Orono
"Development of a Community Self-Employment Fund: A
Study in Organizational Resistance to Self-Direction,"
Wayland Roberts, University of Arkansas & Clarence
Mitchell, Arkansas Technical University
2. DISCIPLINARY FOCUS PANEL: Health, Disability, and Independent
Living in the Graduate Public Health Curriculum, Part II
Columbia B
4:00 -5:30 p.m.
Moderator: Allan Meyers, Boston University
Ruth Brannon, National Institute for Disability and
Rehabilitation Research
Peter Hunt, National Center for Health Statistics
Devva Kasnitz, World Institute on Disability, Oakland,
CA
Marsha Saxton, World Institute on Disability, Oakland,
CA
Thomas Stripling, Paralyzed Veterans of America
Sarah Trafton, University of Rochester
3. Personal Assistance Services (PAS)
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
4:00 -5:30 p.m.
"Publicly Funded Personal Assistance Services: The
1995 State of the States," Thomas Bleecker, World
Institute on Disability, Oakland, CA
"Determinants of Consumer Control in Personal
Assistance Services (PAS)," Linda B. Mona, World
Institute on Disability, Oakland, CA
"Disability in the Workplace: The Effects of Using
Personal Assistance Services on the Job" Raymond
Glazier, ABT Associates Inc., Cambridge, MA
6:00 - 7:30 p.m. Sessions
1. Why the Media Have No Understanding of Disability
Columbia A
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Moderator: David Pfeiffer, University of Hawaii
Beth Haller, Towson University
Bill Stothers & Cindi Jones, Mainstream Magazine
Mary Johnson, Ragged Edge Magazine
2. Interdisciplinary Explorations
Columbia B
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
"On Interdisciplinary Journeying, Textuality and
Disability Studies," Mairian Corker, University of
Central Lancaster, UK
"Translating Disablement: Interdisciplinarity and the
Making of Discourse," Kate Kaul, York University,
Canada
"The Interplay between Legal Scholarship and the
Social Model of Disability" Melinda Jones, University
of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
"First, Kill the 'Crazies' & 'Cripples'" Sandy
O'Neill, Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco,
CA
3. Embodied Subjects
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
"Archaelogy of Deadly Meaning: Polio and HIV
Photographs," Patricia M. Sarchet, University at
Buffalo
"Internalised Oppression: Theorising the Embodied
Subject," Deborah Marks, Sheffield, UK
"Media Representations of Disability: Moving from a
Sociopolitical to an Educational Paradigm" Stephen
Safran, Ohio University, Athens, OH
"Invisible Disability and the Rupture of Lived
Relation: A Phenomenological Exploration" Tom Craig,
The Body Works Consultation, St. Catharine's Ontario,
Canada
8:00 - 9:30 p.m. Sessions
1. Disability Figures, Documented Subjects: Common Ground
Between Disability Scholars and Disability Service Providers
Columbia A
8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Moderator: Jim Cohn, University of Colorado
Jim Cohn, University of Colorado
Beth A. Ferri, Texas Woman's University
Sue Kroeger, University of Minnesota
Susan Pliner, Brown University
2. DISCIPLINARY FOCUS PANEL: Literature
Columbia B
8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Moderator: David Mitchell, Northern Michigan
University
"Torrid Zones: Eighteenth-Century Femininity and
Disability," Felicity Nussbaum, University of
California - Los Angeles
"Disability and Theory" Tobin Siebers, University of
Michigan
"Representation and Its Discontents: The Uneasy Home
of Disability in Literary Studies," David Mitchell,
Northern Michigan University
3. Children and Youth with Disabilities, and Future Planning
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
"'Crossing the Great Divide': Childhood Disability
Research and the Nurse Researcher," Gill Bricher,
Women & Children's Hospital, Adelaide, Australia
"The Role of Families in Future-Planning Among Older
African-American Caregiving Parents of Adult Children
with Disabilities," Sharon V. King, Georgia State
University
"Children with Disabilities: Results from a National
Survey of Health Care Experiences," Marty Krauss &
Stephen Gulley, Brandeis University
"Intergenerational Exchange: Effects on Attitude of
Deaf Youth Participating in a Program with Deaf Older
Adults," Luayne C. Smith & Kristine A. Mulhorn,
University of Michigan -- Flint
Friday, May 28
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Sessions
1. DISCIPLINARY FOCUS PANEL: Psychology
Columbia A
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: Carol Gill, University of Illinois at
Chicago
Carol Gill, University of Illinois at Chicago
Scott Feldman, University of Illinois at Chicago
Monique Williams, Illinois School of Professional
Psychology
Barbara Robertson, University of Illinois at Chicago
2. ROUNDTABLE: "The Empire of the Normal": Disability and
Self-Representation in Autobiography
Columbia B
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Howard
University
Michael Berub_, University of Illinois
Leonard Cassuto, Fordham University
Brenda Brueggemann, The Ohio State University
Georgina Kleege, Columbus, OH
David Mitchell, Northern Michigan University
3. Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Public Discourse:
Three Case Studies
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: Karen Hirsch, PARAQUAD, St. Louis, MO
"Involving People with Disabilities in Research," Mary
Gould & Karen Hirsch, PARAQUAD, St. Louis, MO
"Suits, Science, Sensitivity and the St. Louis Zoo,"
David Gray, Kerri Morgan, Billie Boone, Washington
University School of Medicine
"Will Issues Important to People with Disabilities Get
Due Respect in Mainstream Social Debates?
Telecommunications Re-regulation as a Case Study,"
David Newburger, Newburger and Vossmeier, St. Louis,
MO
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Sessions
1. Disability Policies
Columbia A
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
"Disability, Family and the Canadian Immigration
System," Judith Mosoff, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
"The Disability Civil Rights Monitoring Project: An
Assessment of Federal Enforcement of the Air Carriers
Access Act," Nancy Mudrick, Syracuse University, Mary
Lou Breslin, DREDF, and Jane West, Chevy Chase, MD
"Adults Only: Disability, Social Policy and the Life
Course," Mark Priestley, University of Leeds, Leeds,
UK
"Policy Barriers for People with Psychiatric
Disabilities Who Want to Work," Mary Killeen, National
Rehabilitation Research Center, Washington, D.C.
2. DISCIPLINARY FOCUS PANEL: Political Science
Columbia B 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Moderator: Kay Schriner, University of Arkansas
Kay Schriner, University of Arkansas
David Pfeiffer, University of Hawaii
Harlan Hahn, Disability Forum, Santa Monica, CA
Lisa Schur, Rutgers University
Barbara Robertson, University of Illinois at Chicago
3. People with Disabilities and Managed Care
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
"The Cross-Disability Health and Social Service Needs
of People in Managed Care," Richard H. Beinecke,
Suffolk University
"Understanding the Health Care Experiences of People
with Disabilities in a Managed Care Environment:
Identifying Sources of Concern, Distress and
Satisfaction," Jessica Scheer, National Rehabilitation
Research Center, Washington, D.C.
"Evaluating State-Sponsored Health Care Reform
Initiatives in Managed Care for People with
Disabilities," John Tschida, National Rehabilitation
Hospital Research Center, Washington, D.C.
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch Sessions
1. Religion and Spirituality
Columbia A
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
"Religion, Disability, and the Social Construction of
Stigma," J. Eric Pridmore, Drew University
"Spiritual Beliefs and Response to Disability by
Adults with Disabilities and Family Members," Linda L.
Treloar, Scottsdale, AZ
2. WORKSHOP: "Disability Data: How to get it.....How to use it"
Columbia B
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Sharon Ramirez, National Center for Health Statistics,
Hyattsville, MD
Linda Washington, National Center for Health
Statistics, Hyattsville, MD
3. Being a Parent and Then Some: The Double Standard of
'Good-Enough' When Mom has a Disability
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Moderator: Connie Conley-Jung, Through the Looking
Glass
"Mothers with Physical and Visual Impairments and
their Latency-Age Children," Lisa Cohen, California
School of Professional Psychology
"Phone Interviews with New Mothers with Visual
Impairments," Connie Conley-Jung, Through the Looking
Glass
"A Survey of Mothers with Disabilities and their
Spouses," Anitra DeMoss, Through the Looking Glass
4. Mentors/Mentees meeting
Hyatt Restaurant
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Moderator: Phyllis Rubenfeld
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Sessions
1. Rhetorics of Disability
Columbia A
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
"The 'Wolf Whistle Lynching' Revisited: An Examination
of the Discourse about Emmett Till's Disabilities,"
Jerrold Hirsch, Truman State University, & Michael
Roth, University of Columbia
"From 'Eugenics Prevention' to 'Clinical Management':
The Evolution of Medical Literature Rhetoric Regarding
Prenatal Selection, 1955-1967," John B. Kelly,
Brandeis University
"Democracy, Disability and the Social Relations of
Representation and Participation," Helen Meekosha,
University of New South Wales, Australia
"Epistemic Privilege and Epistemic Communities:
Intersections of Disability and Epistemology," Alexa
Schriempf, University of Oregon
2. Advances in Accessible Transportation
Columbia B
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Moderator: Michael Winters, Associate Administrator
for Budget and Policy, Federal Transit Administration
Taide Buenfil Garza, La Herradura, Huixquilucan, Edo.
de Mexico
William W. Millar, President, American Public Transit
Association (APTA)
Nancy Smith, Executive Director, Project Action
Nancy Willis, Surface Transportation Policy Project
(STPP)
3. DISCIPLINARY FOCUS PANEL: Teaching the Teachers: Bringing
Disability Studies Perspective to Colleges of Education
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Moderator: Phil Ferguson, University of Oregon
"The Tensions of Teaching: Bringing A Disability
Studies Perspective to Special Education Programs,"
Phil Ferguson, University of Oregon
"Using Disability Studies as a Framework for Teaching
an Interdisciplinary University Level Course on
Students with Special Needs," Susan Peters, Michigan
State University
"Theoretical Problems with Liberatory Pedagogies,"
Susan Gabel, University of Michigan
"Three Graduate Students with Learning Disabilities
Narrate the Beauty Part of Pedagogy," Jean McPhail,
Joanne Pierson and Julie Goodman, University of
Michigan
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. BUSINESS MEETING
Columbia B
6:30 p.m. DINNER/RECEPTION
Columbia A&B
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Kate Seelman, Director, National
Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research
Saturday, May 29
9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Sessions
1. Parents, Pals and Partners: Knowing Our Place and Placing Our
Bets on the Disabled Family
Columbia A
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: Dona M. Avery, Arizona State University
Roz Darling, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Penelope Kearney, University of Western Sydney,
Nepean, Australia
Sonali Shah, Loughborough University, Leicestershire,
UK
Valerie Leiter, Brandeis University
Phyllis Rubenfeld, Hunter College
2. Advances in Rehabilitation Research and the Benefits to the
Lives of People with Disabilities (NIDRR sponsored)
Columbia B
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: David B. Gray, Washington University
"Medical Humanism," Margaret Stineman, MD
"Well-being & Health Promotion," Elizabeth
Dean-Clower, MD
"Exercise & Nutrition," Margaret Turk, MD
"Complimentary Therapies," Laurance Johnston
"Comment and Discussion," Harlan Hahn, Disability
Forum, Santa Monica, CA
3. Providing More Accurate Information about Disability in
Counselor Education
Columbia A
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Moderator: Beth Omansky Gordon, The George Washington
University
"Deafness and Mental Illness: Models of "Mediated"
Disability?" Mairian Corker, University of Central
Lancashire, UK
"Stereotypes about Disability in Textbooks for
Counselors," Beth Omansky Gordon, The George
Washington University
Simi Linton, The Disability Studies Project, Hunter
College
Elaine Makas, Lewiston-Auburn College of the
University of Southern Maine
Joy Oliver, UK
11:00 - 12:30 p.m. Sessions
1. Disability Concepts, Culture and Identity
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
11:00 - 12:30 p.m.
"Disability Culture: A Theoretical Perspective," Mary
Keener Beresford, Albuquerque, N.M.
"Disability: Discourse and Experience," Timothy D.
Epp, York University, Ontario, Canada
"Disability Identity: Surveys of Participants in ADAPT
Actions," Harlan Hahn, Disability Forum, Santa Monica,
CA
"Examining the Impact on Postsecondary Students of
Three Disability Studies Paradigms," Carol Gill,
University of Illinois at Chicago
2. Advances in Rehabilitation Research II (Johnson & Johnson
Sponsored)
Columbia B
11:00 - 12:30 p.m.
"Introductory Comments and Review of Rehabilitation
Engineering Major Advances," Al Cook
"Mobility Devices," Rory Cooper
"FES for Improved Body Functions," Hunter Peckham
"New advances in Prosthetics," Dudley Childress
Discussant: Mary Novotny, RN
3. Refiguring Disability
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
11:00 - 12:30 p.m.
Moderator: Sharon L. Snyder, Northern Michigan
University
"'Infinities of Forms,'" Sharon Snyder, Northern
Michigan University
"Looking at Disability: Visual Representations of
Disability in Popular Culture," Rosemarie Garland
Thomson, Howard University
"The Visible Cripple: Scars and Other Disfiguring
Displays Included," Mark Jeffreys, University of
Alabama
"Performativity and the Disabled Performer," Petra
Kuppers, University of Manchester, UK
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch Sessions
1. Responses to Disability: A Multicultural Perspective
Columbia A
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
"Western Cultural Representations of Disability,"
Deborah Stern, De Anza College
"Chinese Cultural Representations of Disability,"
Susanne Chan, De Anza College
"Blindness and Visual Impairments: Cultural
Responses," Diana Drews, The Sensory Access
Foundation, Sunnyvale, CA
2. WORKSHOP: Audio Description: The Visual Made Aural
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Leader: Joel Snyder, National Endowment for the Arts
3. VIDEO PRESENTATION: Voices of Disabled Women: Diversity,
Sexuality and Inspiration (Open Captioned)
Columbia B
1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Moderator: Corbett O'Toole, Disabled Women's Alliance,
Albany, CA
Phyllis Bursh, Disabled Women's Alliance, Albany, CA
Sascha Bittner, Disabled Women's Alliance, Albany, CA
Liane Yasamoto, Disabled Women's Alliance, Albany, CA
Kath Rodgers, Disabled Women's Alliance, Albany, CA
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Sessions
1. Re-visioning the Health Care Industry (Johnson & Johnson
Sponsorship)
Columbia A
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Moderator: Glen White
"Next Generation Augmentative Communication Devices,"
Dave Beukelman
"Changing Face(s) of Health Care," Lex Frieden, VP
TIRR
"Translating Medical and Technology Advances into Case
Management and Health Care Reimbursement," Mary Photo,
OTR
2. Accessing the Course Catalog: How to Propose, Promote, and
Improve Your Disability Studies Courses
Columbia B
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Moderator: Mark Jeffreys, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Brenda Brueggemann, The Ohio State University
Nirmala Erevelles, Auburn University
Mark Jeffreys, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Benjamin Lanier-Nabors, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
Carol Poore, Brown University
Penny Richards, University of California at Santa
Barbara
3. Blending Multidisciplinary Perspectives and Educational
Technology: Integrating Career Education Theories, Adult
Development Strategies, Technology, and Alternative Modes of
Instructional Delivery
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
2:30 - 4:00 p.m.
Moderator: David A. Du Bois, SUNY Empire State College
at Rochester
David A. Du Bois, SUNY Empire State College at
Rochester
Nancy F. Gadbow, SUNY Empire State College at
Canandaigua
Mary G. Maciel Klinger, SUNY Empire State College at
Corning/Elmira
Charles C. Blocher, SUNY Empire State College at
Rochester
4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Sessions
1. Research Methodologies
Columbia A
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
"Perception of Disability by Self and Proxy Report:
Data from the 1994 National Health Interview Survey -
Disability Supplement, Phase I" Holly J. Fedeyko &
Vincent A. Campbell, Center for Disease Control and
Prevention, Chamblee, GA
"Putting Our Data Where Our Critique Is: What the
'Health Interview Survey - Disability Supplement'
Reveals about Employment Status and Issues in the
Social Model of Disability," Corinne Kirchner, Emilie
Schmeidler, & Alexander Todorov, American Foundation
for the Blind
"An Update on the MIDS as It Approaches Sweet
Sixteen," Elaine Makas, Lewiston-Auburn College of the
University of Southern Maine
"'The Good Life': An Application of Geographical
Information Systems (GIS) in Understanding the Quality
of Life of People with Developmental Disabilities,"
Deborah S. Metzel, University of Maryland, & Henry
Claypool, HHS Administration on Developmental
Disabilities
"Barriers to Career Employment for People with
Disabilities," Barbara Granger, Matrix Research
Institute, Philadelphia PA
2. Access in the Built Environment
Columbia B
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
"Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Disability and the
Aesthetics of Landscape Architecture," Daniel G.
Hunter, University of Oregon
"Equal Access to Transit? Blind Transit Users'
Evaluations of Remote Infrared Signage Systems," James
R. Marston & Reginald G. Golledge, University of
California at Santa Barbara
"Making Cities Accessible for People with
Disabilities: Engaging City Planning," Matthew
Wangeman, University of California, Berkeley
"Accessible Housing: Policies, Implications and
Services for People with Disabilities," Kate Toran &
Matthew Wangeman, University of California, Berkeley
3. Women and Disability
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
"Chronic Manic Depressives and Schizoaffectives: Women
as Primary Caregivers and Family Violence," Lisa
Hanna, Carleton University, Ottawa, & Ravi Malhotra,
University of Ottawa, Norman Paterson, Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada
"Adjustment to Disability and Social Interaction Among
College Women with Physical Disabilities," Jennifer
Gibson, University of Southern California, Los
Angeles, CA
"The Estrogen Use and Frequency of Osteoporosis Among
Women with Movement Limitations" Natalia Melnikova &
Vincent Campbell, Center for Disease Control, Atlanta,
GA
"Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Women
Entrepreneurs with Disabilities" Colleen Watters,
Canadian Centre on Disability Studies, Winnipeg,
Manitoba, Canada
6:30 p.m. - DINNER/RECEPTION
Yorktown/Valley Forge Room
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Lois Bragg, Gallaudet University,
"Deaf Studies as Precursor to Disability Studies?"
9:00 p.m. - An Evening of Performances & Readings
Yorktown/Valley Forge Room
Georgina Kleege, Columbus, Ohio, "Letters from Helen"
Tanis Doe, IDEAS 2000 World Institute on
Disability/Rehabilitation International, Canada,
"Tango"
Jim Ferris, University of Wisconsin, "Poems"
Carrie Sandahl, Florida State University, "Performance"
Ann Starr, Wellesley, MA, "Deformity Unexpressed in
Person."
Sunday, May 30
8:30 - 10:30 a.m. Session
Current Research on the Americans with Disabilities Act
Columbia B
"Enforcing Justice: The ADA and Employment
Discrimination Charges," Kathryn Moss, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"When is a Disability Not a Disability? Judicial Views
of Mitigating Measures Under the ADA," Lisa A. Schur,
Rutgers University
"Implementing Title II of the Americans with
Disabilities Act," Jacqueline Vaughn Switzer, Northern
Arizona University
"Securing Compliance with the ADA: The Role of
Advocacy Groups," Phyllis Rubenfeld, Hunter College
"The Tobacco Industry and the ADA," Theresa Montini,
University of California, San Francisco
9:00-10:30 a.m. Sessions
1. Participation of Persons with Disabilities in Household
Surveys: Conceptual Framework for Empirical Investigations
Columbia A
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Moderator: Corinne Kirchner, American Foundation for
the Blind
Gerry Hendershot, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Lisa Colpe, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
Peter Hunt, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
2. DISCIPLINARY FOCUS PANEL: Anthropology, Part I
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
9:00-10:30 a.m.
Moderator: Devva Kasnitz, World Institute on
Disability, Oakland, CA
Patrick Devlieger, University of Illinois at Chicago
Devva Kasnitz, World Institute on Disability, Oakland,
CA
James Charlton, Access Living, Chicago, IL
Wendy Mills, Case Western Reserve University
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Sessions
1. "Nothing About Us Without Us" in Surveys: Proxy Respondents
and Non-Respondents in the Disability Supplement and Other
Surveys
Columbia A
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Moderator: Corinne Kirchner, American Foundation for
the Blind
Miriam Hertz, Institute on Disability and Human
Development, University of Illinois at Chicago
Alexander Todorov, American Foundation for the Blind
Emilie Schmeidler, American Foundation for the Blind
Robert Groves, University of Maryland/University of
Michigan Joint Program on Survey Methods
2. Employment Issues
Columbia B
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
"Career Pathways of Successful Deaf Professionals"
Susan Foster & Janet Macleod-Gallinger, Rochester
Institute of Technology
"Telecommuting and Other Home-Based Work: Differences
by Disability Status," Douglas L. Kruse & MaryAnne M.
Hyland, Rutgers University
"Worker Co-ops for People with Intellectual
Disabilities," Judith Sandys, Ryerson Polytechnic
University
"AAAS Entry Point! Internships: A Variation on
Traditional Models," Laureen Summers, American
Association for the Advancement of Science,
Washington, D.C.
3. DISCIPLINARY FOCUS PANEL: Anthropology, Part II
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Moderator: Devva Kasnitz, World Institute on
Disability, Oakland, CA
Russell Shuttleworth, University of California, San
Francisco
Diane Pawlowski, Wayne State University
Edwin Zehner
Gerry Gold, York University
Discussants: Devva Kasnitz, Patrick Devlieger, James
Charlton
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Sessions
1. Attitudes toward Disability among Professionals, Training
Issues
Columbia A
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
"A Comparative Analysis of Health Care Professionals'
Knowledge and Attitudes to Disability in Two NHS
Trusts" Marian Crowley, University of Central England,
Birmingham, UK
"'They are Like You and I': Growing Awareness of
Disability in the Professional Education of Genetic
Counselors" Emily Kolker, Brandeis University
"Attitudes of Trainees in the Helping Professions
Toward People with Disabilities," David Pfeiffer,
University of Hawaii
"Perspectives on the Disability Movement by an
Occupational Therapist with Lifelong Disabilities: A
client-practitioners-activist-researcher," Christine
Conway Reese, Hartford, CT
"Status of the Seven Disabled Sports Organizations and
Recommendations for the Future," Eli Wolff, Brown
University
2. Health Care: Advances and Issues
Columbia B
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
"The Depression Prevention Model," Sarah Ailey, Rush
University
"Health Risk Factors for African-American Persons with
Disabilities" Gwyn C. Jones, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, Secondary Conditions
Prevention Branch, Atlanta, GA
"Improving the Clinical Treatment of Veterans with
Schizophrenia with Telemedicine," J. Gary Linn,
Tennessee State University
"Conceptualizing Access to Mental Health Services: The
Case of Individuals with Hearing Loss," Randall R.
Myers, The Jewish Social Service Agency, Gaithersburg,
MD
"Individuals with Coexisting Developmental
Disabilities and Mental Illnesses: A Study of the
Relationship between the Cost of Services and
Outcomes-Based Performance Measures," Michael Ullman &
Kathryn Moss, University of North Carolina
3. Educational Settings
Concord/Lexington/Bunker Hill Room
1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
"Negotiating Equitable Practices for Faculty and
Students with Invisible Disabilities in the
Post-Secondary Educational Context" Maureen Connolly,
Brock University
"'No One Ever Asked': Coping Strategies of University
Students with Neuro-Cognitive Disabilities," Marjorie
F. Olney, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"American Sign Language Viewed as an Accommodation or
Language? Perspectives of Those Who Teach and Those
Who are Taught" Patricia N. Roberts, Case Western
Reserve University
"Education as Re-Enactment of Social Power Relations:
A Comparison of Perspectives Between a Dominant and a
Nondominant Group," Robertta Thoryk, West Geauga
Schools, Newberry, OH
"Interdisciplinary Program in Disability Studies:
Presentation and Evaluation of an Undergraduate
Concentration," Lynn Gitlow & Elizabeth DePoy, The
Center for Community Inclusion, Orono, ME
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Meeting Registration Form
The 1999 SDS Annual Meeting will be held from 10 a.m. Thursday,
May 27 through 3:00 p.m. Sunday, May 30 at the Hyatt Regency
Washington, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW in Washington DC. All
individuals listed on the program are required to preregister
(including payment) for the meeting before April 10, 1999. Any
presenters who have not pre-registered by April 10 will be
dropped from the program. We ask that individuals registering
after May 1 register on-site. Late registrants will be charged
an additional $25.00. Anyone requesting access accommodations
should print out and complete the access request form. Please
return it with your registration form as soon as possible so
that access arrangements may be made.
Presenters should print this webpage out, complete it, and mail
it, with payment in U.S. funds made out to Society for
Disability Studies, to:
Carol J. Gill, Ph.D., Executive Officer, Society for
Disability Studies
Department of Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago (MC 626)
1640 W. Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL 60608-6904
U.S.A.
Questions about SDS or the Annual Meeting should be directed to
the SDS Office by phone at (312) 996-4664 (V/TTY) or by e-mail
at bar at uic.edu. Information about the Society and the Annual
Meeting is also available on the SDS web site at
http://www.uic.edu/orgs/sds.
Name (as you want it to appear on your badge):
Affiliation (as you want it to appear on your badge):
Address
Telephone
E-mail
1999 Pre-Registration Fees (due by 4/10/99 for presenters):
$125.00 _____ Member (includes two reception/dinners Friday and
Saturday evenings)
$175.00 _____ Non-member (includes two reception/dinners Friday
and Saturday evenings)
$50.00 _____ Student or low-income (does not include
reception/dinners)
$50.00 _____ Single day (does not include reception/dinners)
$25.00 _____ Late registration fee (for registration after
5/1/99 - please register on site)
$ _____ Additional tax-deductible contribution
$ ______ TOTAL ENCLOSED
Volunteers
Volunteers are necessary for our meeting to happen, especially
during registration. As an incentive, anyone who would qualify
for the student/low income rate can attend free if s/he will
volunteer for at least four hours (the four-hour shifts are
pre-set, but we try to honor volunteers' first or second picks).
The SDS Office will contact volunteers in May to schedule their
hours.
I would like to volunteer to assist at the meeting (circle if
yes): YES
Roommate Referral
If you are interested in having the SDS office refer you to
potential roommates for your stay at the conference site, please
complete the following information and attach it with your
registration form. Based on the information each person
provides, we will give contact information of potential
roommates to each other so that they can make arrangements with
one another.
Please note that, unless you inform us that you have found a
roommate, we will continue to refer potential roommates to you.
Also, the office cannot guarantee that a roommate will be
available for you, we only seek to facilitate roommate matches.
Name __________________________
Which nights will you need a roommate (circle all that apply)?
Wed 5/26
Thurs 5/27
Fri 5/28
Sat 5/29
Sun 5/30
Any preferences (e.g., gender) or special considerations
regarding your roommate?
Potential roommates should contact you by (circle one or both
modes that you prefer, and indicate the e-mail address or
telephone number you prefer if it is different than the ones
given above):
E-mail _____________________
Telephone (Voice? TTY?) _____________________
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Meeting Access Request Form
If you will require access accommodations, please print this
form, complete it, and return it with your conference
registration form to the SDS office by April 10.
The 1999 conference hotel is the Hyatt Regency Washington in
Washington DC. The Society will try to accommodate all attendees
to insure that they can participate fully.
The hotel has eighteen "accessible" rooms, seven with roll-in
showers. If you can use a standard room, please reserve one
rather than the "accessible" rooms. The standard rooms' entry
doors are 29" wide and the bath door size is 25". If you do need
one of the "accessible" rooms please do not hesitate to request
one from the hotel.
Name:
Telephone:
Email:
For each of the items below, please circle a response.
I will request an accessible room at the hotel: Yes / No
I would be willing to share the room if needed: Yes / No
("Accessible" rooms have two double beds.)
I will request a TTY in my room: Yes / No
I will request a strobe alarm in my room: Yes / No
I request a shower bench in my room: Yes / No
I request the following: ASL interpreting / FM loop system /
real time captioning
Please provide my Meeting Program in: Braille / Large print /
Disk
Personal assistance services will be provided by SDS during the
program hours starting at 9:00 a.m. Assistants can help you with
mobility, eating, and other personal activities during all
scheduled events and short breaks.
I expect to make use of this service: Yes / No
Special dietary accommodations:
Other accommodations requested:
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