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IMPORTANT NOTE
Submissions, registration and accommodation requests can only be made in English.

SUGGESTIONS FOR SPEAKERS AND TRANSLATORS

It is not easy for a speaker to prepare documents and presentations. It is the same situation if they speak for persons with learning difficulties. Sometimes, speakers do not know how they can transmit information to people with intellectual disability.

The suggestions aim to help the speaker make presentations more accessible for persons with intellectual disability, but in fact accessible presentations are important for all participants.

We hope that these suggestions help you to prepare accessible presentations, but would also like to call on you to be creative and to adapt these suggestions to the special circumstances.

RULE 1: USE A CLEAR AND SIMPLE LANGUAGE

Please avoid all technical words, jargon, abbreviations and difficult words.

If you have to use some difficult words for the understanding of the presentation, please prepare a simple and easy-to-read definition of these words. These definitions will be included in a dictionary.

Please use the language you use in your daily life and make short sentences

Speak slowly and make short breaks for the translation

One sentence should not contain more than one idea

Use always the same term for the same concept

It is easy to get carried away when speaking. Please use short breaks to consider if you are still following these rules.

RULE 2: PRESENT ONLY THE MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Please avoid all details

Do not give too much information

RULE 3: USE WELL PRINTED AND PRESENTED DOCUMENTS

Please use large and clear print

Please avoid block capitals, italics and underlining

You could use bullet points, story boxes

Please use a ragged right edge

RULE 4: USE VISUAL AIDS

You could use vidual aids such as slides or flip charts

It is very important to use pictures during your presentation

Please use concrete symbols (photos, images, drawings)

If you use abstract symbols, please explain them to the audience.

RULE 5: INVOLVE YOUR AUDIENCE IN YOUR PRESENTATION

Please speak directly and personally to the audience

Use examples to make your presentation more understandable

Remember that you are speaking to adults and not to children

After your presentation, leave time to answer questions

If possible, test your presentation with people with intellectual disability before the meeting

RULE 6: BE INSPIRED AND IMAGINATIVE TO PREPARE YOUR PRESENTATION

You could present your information in the form of a dialogue

The Guidelines for Speakers have been developed and provided by Inclusion Europe.

THEME

"Life! Liberty! Security!" is more than a conference theme.
It is a statement. It is a demand. It is a challenge. It is a plea.

Above all, it is a vision.

It is a vision of a world in which people with an intellectual disability enjoy "a fundamental right to life, liberty and security". At every level - international, national, local and personal - people with an intellectual disability, and their families and supporters, are involved in an ongoing campaign to claim human rights and citizenship. They aim to make the universal vision of Life, Liberty and Security a reality. They are linked - across all lands and oceans - by a shared commitment to the values represented in Article 3:

Life!

Participation, Education, Prosperity, Challenge, Change

Liberty!

Choice, Control, Power, Self Determination, Access

Security!

Safety, Pride, Confidence, Well-Being, Comfort

AIMS

The 13th World Congress of Inclusion International aims to:

Celebrate Achievements
People with an intellectual disability have made great progress in many places towards achieving human rights and citizenship.
Let's have a party!

Target Barriers
People with an intellectual disability still face grave threats to life, liberty and security.
Let's join their fight!

Share Success
People with an intellectual disability, their families and supporters often devise powerful strategies for tackling discrimination, oppression and abuse.
Let's learn from them!

Light a Fire
People with an intellectual disability, their families and supporters throughout the world are passionate! They have fire in their bellies! Imagine what they'll do when they all get together!
Let's light up the world!

INTEREST AREAS

The Congress Program will explore ways in which the rights expressed in Article 3 are, or are not, being realised in the lives of people with intellectual disability. The Program will explore this question in relation to the following major interest areas:

Law/Ethics

Education/Development

Community Participation

Economic Participation

"Every person has a fundamental right to life, liberty and security of person."
Article 3 of the U.N. Declaration on Human Rights.

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

Al Etmanski (CANADA)

Al is an author, parent, social inventor and known for fostering social enterprise and converting social capital into economic capital. Al is the Executive Director of PLAN, a family driven network for supporting the development of community memberships and relationships for people with disabilities. PLAN has been active in WA where Al is a frequent guest. He is also a part-time college and university instructor and consultant to non-profits on government influencing and advocacy.

Colleen Weick (USA)

Colleen Weick has been described as "one of those people who changed the world". She had a vision and that vision was Partners in Policymaking. Partners in Policymaking is a leadership training project for adults with disabilities and parents of young children with developmental disabilities. Partners began in Minnesota in 1987 when Colleen brought together a small group of individuals committed to change the place of people with disabilities and families in policy making.

Michael Peterson (USA)

Michael Peterson is Professor and Co-Coordinator of the Whole Schooling Consortium Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan USA. Michael is a co-founder of the Whole School Consortium and a core member of Renaissance Community. The Whole Schooling Consortium is a network of schools, university faculty, teachers, parents, and community members whose goals are to promote Whole Schooling practices, a way of seeing the benefits of inclusion accruing to all students, through research, professional development, and advocacy, particularly in schools that serve children from low income families and/or who are at risk.

PROGRAM OUTLINE

I S S U E S

Organisers of the 13th World Congress of Inclusion International invite exploration of issues such as:

Are children with intellectual disability receiving equal access to education?

What are schools doing to support inclusion?

What's being done to promote the educational development of people with high support needs?

How are adult education systems responding to the needs and rights of people with intellectual disability?

What's happening to support creativity, self expression and personal growth among people with intellectual disability?

What about spirituality and relationships?

What's being done to strengthen communities to support the participation and contribution of people with intellectual disability as valued citizens?

How are people with intellectual disability asserting control over their funding and services?

What residential, recreational, lifestyle and staff supports best ensure life, liberty and security?

What forms of family support and service coordination should be available?

What roles might people with intellectual disability and family members play in monitoring and assuring quality services?

How can people with intellectual disability and families achieve real political power?

What threats and opportunities might arise from the Human Genome project and new gene technology?

Are changes in law required to guarantee fundamental human rights?

What systems of advocacy and review are needed to safeguard the rights of people with intellectual disability?

How effective are anti- discrimination laws?

What's being done to support people with dual disability - i. e. people with intellectual disability and mental health issues - involved with the justice system?

What's being done to support women with intellectual disability overcome discrimination and abuse?

Do people with intellectual disability have equal access to real jobs?

Do they get fair wages and conditions?

How might people with intellectual disability best achieve financial security and independence?

What forms of vocational training and work preparation are most effective?

What kind of partnerships might be developed to attack the effects of poverty?

How are governments, employers, service providers and families responding to the needs of people with intellectual disability who are ageing?

What opportunities are opened up for people with intellectual disability by new technologies?

I N T E R E S T
A R E A S

Education / Development

Community

Participation

Law/ Ethics

Economic

Participation

TOPICS

Education For All
Lifelong Learning
Personal Development
Citizenship
Self Determination
Support
Bioethics
Law Reform
Justice
Employment
Prosperity / Welfare
Technology

LANGUAGE ACCESS

Presentations will reflect the global agenda of Inclusion International. Speakers will come from all parts of the world. Translation facilities will be available in major sessions.

Presentations will be given an 'Easy Language' rating to help delegates select sessions they wish to attend. The Easy Language ratings will be:

LEVEL ONE
Presentations that deal with personal experiences and real situations, described in everyday language.

LEVEL TWO
Presentations that use personal experiences and real situations to discuss wider themes and more abstract ideas.

LEVEL THREE
Presentations that deal with wider themes using mostly abstract ideas.

STUDY TOURS

The Congress organisers will be working with international organisations to provide a range of Study Tours in Australia and New Zealand. For those wishing to participate in tours, information will be available on the Congress website after 30 July, 2002. Alternatively, tick the appropriate box on the Registration Form to receive this information automatically in 2002.

Telegraphic Transfers

Registration fees and the accommodation deposit can be sent by telegraphic transfer to the Congress Account as follows:

Swiftcode: ANZBAUM3M
Account Number: 198 727 626
Bank: ANZ Bank Ltd
Account Name: 13th World Congress of Inclusion International
Address: 229 Smith Street, Collingwood, VIC 3066, Australia