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Programs In the Spotlight

• Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (ongoing)
• Disability Policy Leadership Program (2006-2008)
• Virtual web conference series - Roadmap Out of Poverty: A Multi-Site Dialogue on Decent Work for People with Disabilities began in conjunction with International Day of Disabled Persons and will run for eight months (Dec. 2007 - July 2008).

Videos (available online)

• Master’s Series on Field Research (2007)
• University of Mississippi ADA Symposium video (2005)
• Merrill Lynch Lunch & Learn video : Raising a Child with a Disability (2005)
• Merrill Lynch Corporate Culture and Disability Symposium (2003)

News & Events of this Year (2008)

June 2008

• 6.19.08 BBI to co-sponsor FDIC Money Smart Train-the-Trainer Workshop
• 6.19.08 BBI research staff to host four-topic Panel and three Presentations at Society for Disability Studies 2008 Conference
• 6.16.08 Second edition of Disability Civil Rights Law & Policy Casebook by Blanck, et. al to publish in Fall 2008
• 6.10.08 Cogburn invited to join Freedom House committee to develop methodology for new Index of Global Internet Freedom (IGIF)
• 6.3.08 Congress Urged to Ratify Disability Rights Treaty
  Invitation to Briefing Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
• 6.3.08 Blanck to chair Panel: Organizational Culture Study for Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) Department of Labor (DOL) Summit
• 6.2.08 BBI's Brian McLane testifies before NYS Assembly hearing on workforce issues and people with disabilities
  Press Release: McLane Testimony - Workforce and Disability

May 2008

• 5.30.08 BBI helps support Global Universal Design Commission (GUDC) Inaugural Meeting
  
  • Press Release: GUDC Welcomes Ecuadorian Ambassador to Syracuse
  • BBI facilitates inaugural meeting of Global Partnership for Disability and Development (GPDD)
  • SU's Peter Blanck to be Chairman of the GUDC Board of Directors
• 5.13.08 International Disability Alliance (IDA) CRPD Forum held first meeting; uses BBI webconferencing software
• 5.12.08 Dr. Shira Yalon-Chamovitz presented Closing the Accessibility Gap: The Israeli Experience
• 5.9.08 Blanck one of 17 prominent experts chosen to comprise National Research Advisory Panel for the National Technical Assistance and Research (NTAR) Leadership Center, which promotes employment and economic independence for adults with disabilities.
• 5.1.08 Blanck and Malloy join with Cambridge University Press to offer groundbreaking Disability Law and Policy Book Series.

April 2008

• 4.28.08 BBI noted in SU publications:
  
  • Points of Impact, the report of The Campaign for Syracuse University [.pdf]
  • Living the Vision, about Scholarship in Action at Syracuse University [.pdf]
• 4.18.08 Blanck and Morris to serve on Advisory Panels for National Technical Assistance and Research (NTAR) Center
  Press Release: NTAR Advisory Panel
• 4.11.08
  Peter Blanck to present at Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium 2008
  Agenda | Brochure [.pdf]
• 4.8.08 Dr. Eynat Gal from University of Haifa to lecture Autism Research: from underlying mechanisms to participation | Flyer: Autism Lecture [.pdf]
• 4.4.08 Brian McLane to present Thoughts on Raising Children with Disabilities [.doc] in celebration of Autism Awareness Month for the Central New York Chapter (CNY) - Autism Society of American (ASA)

March 2008

• 3.10.08 Blanck interviewed on disability pension research for Civil War Medicine (and Writing) Blog
  
• 3.3.08 Peter Blanck to participate in U.N. Global Initiative for Inclusive Technologies Forum in Quito, Ecuador and preside on international experts Panel: Status of U.S. & E.U. legislation and international developments
  | Press Release: G3ict Forum [.pdf]

February 2008

• 2.23.08 BBI co-sponsors Communications Law & Policy Symposium
  
• 2.23.08 William Myhill, M.Ed., J.D. to serve on Panel: Disability & Equal Access Issues (see Agenda: Communications Law & Policy Symposium)
• 2.19.08 Peter Blanck guest lecture - "American Disability Law & Policy in Transition"
  Eastern Kentucky University | Newsletter: Blanck EKU Lecture [.doc]
• 2.5.08 BBI sponsors Stone Canoe Arts Leadership Award in recognition of Inclusion of People with Disabilities in Arts | Press Release: Stone Canoe [.pdf]
• 2.5.08 David B. Marcu, Israel Elwyn Executive Director, presents "Services to People with Disabilities in Israel"

January 2008

• 1.29.08 Global disability and poverty efforts get key boost from agreement between Burton Blatt Institute and World Bank.

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