Events

The Annual Disability Policy Seminar brings national, state and local disability organizations as well as self-advocates, families and providers to our nation's capital for three days of intense public policy discussions and meetings focused on issues affecting people with disabilities.

The 2006 Disability Policy Seminar is an opportunity for the disability community to educate the U.S. Congress and their constituents on how to preserve and strengthen federal policies and programs important to people with disabilities.

The fall 2005 conference was rescheduled due to hurricane Wilma. It has been rescheduled and will be comprised of four tracks: Accessibility, Higher Education, Employment, and Transit. The conference covers new and updated issues for ADA Coordinators, Section 501/504 Compliance Officers, Human Resources and Risk Management Professionals, Transit/Transportation Professionals, Architects, and others working with these issues.

The 2006 AAPD Leadership Gala will be a celebration of the progress made for people with disabilities and the leaders who have made it possible. The Gala will not only look back on the great strides made in the past, but also look at the goals of AAPD in the next decade as the organization strives to continue to improve the implementation and enforcement of disability nondiscrimination laws.

The conference will be comprised of 4 tracks on ADA and Rehabilitation Act 501 and 504 issues. The tracks are on: Accessibility, Employment, Higher Education, and Transit. The conference covers new, emerging, and updated issues for ADA Coordinators, Architects, Section 501/504 Compliance Officers, Human Resources and Risk Management Professionals, Transit Professionals, and others working with these issues.

The theme for this year's conference and the focus for NCIL activities in 2006 is centered around ending the institutional bias. Individuals from across the country come together to learn best practices in providing advocacy and independent living services to individuals with disabilities in their communities.

The annual international AHEAD conference is an opportunity for professionals in the fields of higher education and disability to advance the services provided to individuals with disabilities in Post Secondary Education.

For over 21 years, the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) has provided focused, trusted, and informed answers to these and other questions. This annual conference unites JAN consultants with featured speakers who have expertise in employment law, innovative employment practices, and disability issues.

In/Dependence: Disability, Welfare, and Age is a one-day interdisciplinary symposium at the Center for 21^st Century Studies interrogating the meanings and implications of dependency and independence in American life. The focus will be on ways in which issues of dependency affect the personal lives and self-understandings of individuals and groups, and on the challenges these issues pose for public policy and social justice. The theme reaches deep into some persisting and central concerns of the humanities, raising questions about the nature and boundaries of the self and, especially, about the relation between self and others. We believe that interdisciplinary discussion within the humanities along axes of age, ability, gender, race, class, and geo-political relations can play a crucial role in deepening our understanding of a set of challenges that is of increasing concern.

The symposium In/Dependence: Disability, Welfare, and Age will convene at 10 AM on Friday, April 7, in Curtin Hall, Room 175, 3243 North Downer Avenue, on the UW-Milwaukee campus. For more information, including registration materials and information about accommodations, please contact Center deputy director Kate Kramer at 414-229-5044 or kkramer@uwm.edu. Please visit the Center website for further information and updates: www.21st.uwm.edu.

Co-sponsored by the Center for 21^st Century Studies, College of Letters & Science, with support from the Graduate School, and the Center on Age & Community, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and funded in part by a grant from the Wisconsin Humanities Council, with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

ADA-Ohio is participating in the annual Multiple Perspective Conference being held April 17-18, 2006, at the Pfahl Executive Education and Conference Center on the campus of Ohio State University.

The goal is to encourage presenters and participants to reflect on how personal experiences create and transform social, cultural, and legal realities - a look into what the psychologist Theodore Sarbin referred to as "the storied nature of human conduct."

For more information regarding the Conference, please go to web site http://ada.osu.edu/conferences/location.htm, or contact Scott Lissner, ADA Coordinator, Ohio State University, Phone 614-292-6207 (Voice), 614-688-8605 (TTY), 614-688-3665 (Fax) or Email ada-osu@osu.edu

This conference is co-sponsored by the ADA WI Partnership and features many sessions related to civil rights, education and employment for people with disabilities. The Keynote Address will be provided by Randy Snow, a published author, medal-winning athlete and accomplished speaker.