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

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SOCIETY FOR DISABILITY STUDIES 1999 ANNUAL MEETING

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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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