The International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual
Disability (IASSID), a non-government affiliate of the World Health
Organisation (WHO), will be holding the 2nd IASSID Asia Pacific Conference
at Singapore in June 2009. This conference will be a major scientific event
in the region, bringing together researchers in the areas of medicine,
psychology, allied health and social welfare, together with people with
disability and service providers.
The conference will also include a 3-day feature event, the Asian Research
to Practice Round Table. This event is designed to foster a series of
action research and associated social development programmes in the region,
the outcomes of which will be reported to the 3rd Asia Pacific Conference,
scheduled for Japan in 2013. As you might gather, the IASSID Asia Pacific
Conference is now an established and on-going scientific event in the
region.
If you could please circulate the following information (and the attachments
to this e-mail) among your affiliated organisations and include this
information in your newsletter / on-line calendar, possibly with a web link
to the International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual
Disability (IASSID): www.iassid.org .
Kind regards,
Dr Keith McVilly & Professor Lisa Wang, IASSID Conference Co-ordination
Committee
Dr Balbir Singh, Chair of the Local Organising Committee (Singapore)
Professor Libby Cohen and Dr Kenneth Poon, Co-Chairs of the Scientific
Programme Committee
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We would like to invite you to the 2nd IASSID Asia Pacific Conference.
The conference will be held at Singapore, 24 to 27 June 2009, at the Furama
Riverfront Hotel.
The conference theme is: "Creating possibilities for an inclusive society"
The conference details and the abstract submission system are now on-line:
www.iassid.org
Abstracts need to be submitted by the end of November 2008. Individual
papers, symposia, workshops and posters are all welcome. All abstracts will
be peer-reviewed and those accepted for the conference will be published in
the Journal of Policy & Practice in Intellectual Disabilities.
The on-line registration system will soon be on-line.
There are a number of organisations partnering with IASSID to make this a
significant event on the international scientific calender. These include
the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication
(ISAAC), the Asia Pacific Down Syndrom Federation and the Australian
Association of Doctors in Developmental Disability Medicine. There are also
many regional and local service providers working together, as part of our
efforts to ensure that the conference provides a mechanism to promote
'research to practice' and that practice issues inform and influence the
research agenda of the scientific community.
As part of our efforts to promote dialogue between researchers,
practitioners and people with disability, the conference will include the
inaugural meeting of the Asian Research to Practice Roundtable. This event
will take place across the 4 days of the conference; bringing together
scientists, practitioners and people with disability to establish and
implement a research to practice agenda for the region.
The IASSID Academy on Education, Teaching & Research will host accredited
workshops prior to and following the conference. The workshops will take
place at Singapore and in neighbouring countries. If you are interested in
hosting such a workshop, you can contact the Academy Chair, Professor Roy
Brown for details and to discuss your proposal: [log in to unmask]
See the attached information sheet for more details of the conference.
Please feel free to circulate this information among your colleagues and
networks and to include details in your various organisational newsletters,
etc.
Also attached is a PowerPoint slide that you could consider using at various
functions you might be organising or attending.
We hope to see you at Singapore.
Kind regards,
Dr Keith McVilly & Professor Lisa Wang, IASSID Conference Co-ordination
Committee
Dr Balbir Singh, Chair of the Local Organising Committee
Professor Libby Cohen and Dr Kenneth Poon, Co-Chairs of the Scientific
Programme Committee
Dr Keith R. McVilly
B.A., Grad. Dip. Psych., M. Psych. (Clinical), PhD
MAPS & Member of the College of Clinical Psychologists
Senior Lecturer in Disability Studies & Clinical Psychologists
Division of Disability Studies
School of Health Sciences
RMIT University
P.O. Box 71
Bundoora, 3083.
Tel.: +61 (0)3 9925 7362
Fac.: +61 (0)3 9925 7303
E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.rmit.edu.au/disability-studies
IASSID World Congress, Cape Town: 25 to 30 August 2008 - www.iassid.org
ASSID Australasian Conference, Melbourne: 24 to 26 November 2008 -
www.assid.org.au
ASSID DSW Conference, Melbourne: 27 to 28 November 2008 - www.assid.org.au
IASSID Asia Pacific Conference, Singapore: 24 to 27 June 2009 -
www.iassid.org
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