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Keynote Speakers
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Keynote Speakers
| Barbara Collier |
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Barbara Collier is Executive Direcetor of Augmentative Communication Community Partnerships Canada, a federal, non-profit organisation that conducts projects to promote social awareness, communication accessibility, enhanced quality of life and community participation for people with complex communication needs. Barbara is a Speech Language Pathologist and has worked as a project manager, researched, resource developer, educator and clinician. She has managed projects relating to abuse provention and safety as well as communication access to justice and community services. She has published in peer-reviewed journals and has developed a number of instructional books and DVD's for consumers.
Keynote Session Title: 'Creating Accessible Community Services for People who use Augmentative Communication'
Synopsis: Human rights legislation protects the rights of all people with disabilities to full and equal access to goods, services and opportunities in their communities. Accessibility is much more than getting into a building or using a washroom. It includes being able to effectively, authentically and meaningfully communicate with the people providing the goods and services. Using the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities as a backdrop for political change and opportunity, we will explore communication accessibility from the perspective of current barriers and proposed accommodations for people who have communication disabilities.
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Rhonda Galbally AO
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Rhonda Galbally AO has focussed her life's work on making a difference for a more equitable society. Rhonda has been a CEO for twenty three years in business, public sector, philanthropy and community, including the Myer foundation and Sidney Myer Fund, the Australian Commission for the Future, the Australian International Health Institute at the University of Melbourne (now the Nossal Institute and VicHealth - the world's first organisation to use a dedicated tabacco tax for health promotion). Her contribution to public health in over ten years developing and sustaining VicHealth as one of the most important international strategies in tobacco control was recognised by the award of the World Health Organisation Award for Tabacco and Health in 1996. From the 2000 - 2009 Rhonda's passionate support for community culminated in her role as Founding CEO of www.ourcommunity.com.au.
Rhonda is currently Chair of the Victorian Disability Advisory Council, Chair of the National People with Disability and Carers Council, member of the independent Panel advising the Productivity Commission on the need for a long term care and support scheme for people with disabilities, Chair of the Royal Women's Hospital, Chair of the International Board of Evaluation for the Thai Health Promotion Foundation and Patron of Compassionate Friends.
Keynote Session Title: Into the Streets: People with Disabilities Fully Participating in Australian Society
Synopsis: How will we know when we get there? Rhonda will outline what constitutes the full inclusion of people with disabilities in Australian society. She will analyse where we are to date in the decades of long struggle for full participation - what has worked and what still needs to be done. She will discuss the current reform agendas, strategies, campaigns and alliances - their progress to date and challenges still to be met. Rhonda will make suggestions for how deleagtes and their networks can participate to ensure that persons with complex communication needs are maximizing their contribution as part of the movement towards achieving full disability rights in Australia.
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Darryl Sellwood
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Darryl Sellwood is a Director of the Australian Communication Exchange, a not-for-profit business offering communication services and products to deaf, communication impaired, hearing impaired and hearing people. Darryl's Honours research at UniSA is in the field of telecommunications access for people with Complex Communication Needs. An AAC user, he understands many of the challenges people with CCN face in accessing telecommunications. As a computer science graduate with experience in the telecommunications field, he has a broad perspective on both user and technical issues. An incisive and provocative thinker and engaging speaker, Darryl presented at ISAAC 2010 in Barcelona.
Keynote Session Title: Take This: It's more participation, it's enabling satisfying lives
Synopsis: Within the disability field we have come a long way sicne Ed Roberts, the father of the disability movement, and his gang crawled up the steps to the Capitol Building and the San Francisco 25 day sit-in. Within a shorter time in teh AAC field we have seen the introduction of text printing communicators, symbols based systems, speech generating devices and dynamic displays. Now features once only a dream, such as eye gaze technology, are becoming common in AAC devices. Parking the bus under the gumtree, Darryl will ponder some wild places that we can head for. He will encourage us to gain an understanding of our history so we are equipped to take our message to the streets. Scattered through his presentation he will share some of his own personal stories of being an AAC user, as well as some of the insights he has discovered as a researcher, one of which is that AAC is not just enabling people to participate in their communities, it's enabling people to have satisfying lives.
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To view the concurrent sessions speaker abstracts please click on the Program page.
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