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Webinars: Emerging Ideas
Series
Tuesdays, beginning September 15,
2009
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Citizens
With Disabilities - Ontario (CWDO) actively promotes
the rights, freedoms and responsibilities of persons with
disabilities through community development, social action, and
member support and referral. Our primary activity is
public education and awareness about the social and physical
barriers that prevent the full inclusion of persons with
disabilities in Ontario.
CWDO is proud to be Ontario's
representative at the Council of Canadians with Disabilities
since June, 2009.
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Emerging Ideas from
Disability Studies
Fall
Webinar Series
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Hosted
by Christine Kelly,
CWDO Executive Board Member
CWDO is proud to
highlight the work of some Ontario graduate students engaged
in Disability Studies.
Disability studies is an
emerging interdisciplinary field that looks at
disability outside the medical model. The students will be
presenting on some of their current work, providing a rare
opportunity to learn about cutting edge thinking around
disability emerging from academia.
Captioning, ASL and
intervenor accommodation is available upon request for this
series, thanks to funding from the Office for Disability
Issues, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.
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Puzzling Alliances: Advocacy Work and the Politics of
Representing Autism
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September 15, 2009
7:00 pm EDT, Auditorium
1
Presenter: Anne Mcguire, PhD
Candidate, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education,
University of Toronto
Drawing on recent work in
the field of disability studies, this paper examines the
political and social dimensions of contemporary perspectives
on Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Click here for more
information about this webinar.
Click here to
register for Puzzling
Alliances.
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Multi-method communication:
Incorporating Persons
with Intellectual Disabilities in the Decision Making
Process
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday,
September 22, 2009
7:00 pm EDT, Auditorium
1
Presenter: Christopher Longtin,
MA, Sociology, Carleton University
This presentation
draws on popular education and community health research to
advocate for an increased role of persons with intellectual
dis/abilities in the decision making process.
The presentation is grounded in the researcher's past
research on relationships between intellectual
disability and gender and current research on how best to
include persons with intellectual disabilities in research as
co-researchers.
Click here for more
information about this webinar.
Click here to
register for Multi-method
Communication.
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"What's that?": An Opportunity to the Think about
Imagery and Perceptions of Disability
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday,
September 29, 2009
7:00 pm EDT, Auditorium
1
Presenter: Samantha Walsh, PhD
student, Sociology and Equity Studies in Education, University
of Toronto
Come think along with doctoral student
Samantha Walsh from the University of Toronto as she engages
with public images of disability. Her lecture will include
discussion of how media images inform, shape and re-affirm
perceptions of disability. The lecture will than make links
between these images and how they inform disability's place
within economical, social, and governmental infrastructures
(within Canada and Ontario).
A must see for disability
rights activists, those interested in disability and media, or
anyone who's ever wondered "What's that?"
Click here for more
information about this webinar.
Click here to
register for Imagery and
Perceptions.
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And Don't Forget the
AODA Consultation with Charles Beer!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22,
2009
Time: 7
pm to 9 pm (Toronto
time)
Place:
IDEAL Auditorium 1 (Click here to
connect)
This is a time to show our strength. Any
of our members who care about the AODA and accessibility
standards should log on for this meeting. A good turnout
will show that we care about this legislation, and do not want
things to be slowed down or cancelled. TOGETHER WE ARE
STRONGER.
To help us plan the meeting
agenda, we have made up a short survey to collect our members'
questions and comments for Mr. Beer. Click here to access
the survey.
You may be asked if you can raise your
own questions and comments if you attend the online
meeting. But if you cannot come, we will still try to
raise them on your behalf.
Your attendance is vital to
achieving our goal to raise public
education and awareness
about the social and physical barriers that prevent the full
inclusion of persons with disabilities in Ontario.
Your input right now
is badly needed. Please plan to attend and please
do the short
survey.
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