Program
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- Sessions are built on 50 minutes blocks which contain two strands of similar topics.
- Each presentation is scheduled for 20 minutes each followed by 10 minutes of questions to either presenters.
- There is a 5 minute break between sessions.
*Times are shown in GMT Central Time (US and Canada) zone.
TIME* | COUNTRY | PRESENTATION TITLE | PRESENTERS |
|---|---|---|---|
8:00a-8:10a | USA, MN | Welcome & Introductions | |
8:10a-9:00a | Tanzania | Assessment of Afterschool Vocational Education Training Programmes for Children with Disabilities in Tanzania | |
USA, TX | Check-In/Check-Out: Performance Feedback During Vocational Training for Youth with Disabilities | ||
9:05a-9:55a | USA, TX | Carly Gilson , David Blustein and James Sinclair | |
USA, MN | Inclusive Employer and Employee Panel | Nicole Rabinowitz, Tasya Kelen, Jess Waller, organization employees | |
10:00a-10:50a | Russia | Special Pottery and Special Artists | Yulia Lipes and Nikolay Filippov |
USA, MN | Visualizing Lived-Experience: Mapping and Geographical Tools to Better Understand and Analyze the Economic and Social Participation of Adults with Disabilities in Bhutan | ||
10:55a-11:45a | Ukraine | Education, Employment, Policy: Three Stories of Inlusion in Ukraine | Sergiy Sydoriv and Leonida Ponomarova |
USA, KY | Morgan’s Musings: My successful journey to inclusive employment in higher education | ||
11:50a-12:40p | Czech Republic | Disability, Employment and Citizenship in Europe | Jan Šiška and Šárka Káňová |
Peru | Systems and Stories in Peru: Employers on hiring quality people with autism, talk about social and economic systems and share stories of life during COVID-19 | ||
12:45p-1:35p/1335 | USA, MN | Transition: What is it and what does it look like? | Stephanie Fitzgerald, Pierre Young, former student |
USA, MN | The Power of Youth Work Experience | Alyssa Klein, Sheila Koenig, Heather Kosec, Crystal Underdahl and two high school students | |
1:40p/1340-2:30p/1430 | USA, MN | Towards Equity: Confronting Capitalist Notions of Value, for Radical Inclusion in Employment | Alli Strong-Martin and Ashley Oolman |
Russia | CANCELED: Learning to Cook as a Way to Strengthen Social Skills for Individuals with Mental Disabilities | Marriana Orlinkova | |
2:35p/1435-3:25p/1525 | Brazil | Building Inclusion through Leadership and Skills Training | Emanuelle Dutra Fernandes de Souza and Emily Klinger |
USA, MN | My Employment | Sam's presentation , Ben's presentation | Sam Graves and Ben Cantlon | |
BREAK | |||
6:00p/1800-7:00p/1900 | NETWORKING SESSIONS Please go to the main room. We are having technical difficulties with the separate links.
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7:00p/1900-7:50p/1950 | Japan | Promoting an inclusive work environment: Endeavor of Sega Sammy Holdings | |
Vietnam | Nguyen Viet Nhan, Iris Drower | ||
7:55p/1955-8:25p/2025 | Russia | Difficulties and prospects of organizing employment for people with mental disabilities | |
8:25p/2025 | USA | Closing Statement | |
*Times are shown in GMT Central Time (US and Canada) zone.