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2008 News, Events, Programs & Media

BBI Programs

10.22.2008 BBI creates public learning campaign to challenge perceptions toward individuals with disabilities [PDF file]
: Press Release: BBI campaign to challenge perceptions of disability
10.15.2008 BBI awarded $4.7 million for Disability Learning Consortium [PDF file]
: Press Release: BBI funded for Disability Consortium
9.12.2008 BBI Awarded Research Contract to Study Tax Policy and Reimbursement for Personal Assistance Services [PDF file]
8.18.2008 BBI awarded two Enitiative grants:
: Inclusive Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities grant [PDF file] to support Start-UP NY project
: Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) grant [PDF file] to support the Whitman School's EBV Program
8.12.2008 BBI funded by U.S. Department of Education for 3-year Disability and Asset Accumulation Project [PDF file]
: Press Release: BBI funded for Asset Accumulation Project

Featured Presentations

11.25.08 "Emergency Preparedness to People with Disabilities in the Ministry of Social Affairs" presented by Moshe Sion, Senior Deputy Director-General for Administration & Human Services, Ministry of Social Affairs - and - Former Director-General of Ministry of Social Services in Tel Aviv, Israel
• Flyer: Emergency Preparedness & Disability Lecture

BBI Spotlight: 2008

News & Events: 2008

December 2008

12.1.08 Me’Shae Brooks-Rolling was elected to the Board of Directors for the SouthSide Entrepreneurs Association (SSEA)
• SSEA is affiliated with SouthSide Innovation Center (SSIC), a business incubator and entrepreneurial initiative of Syracuse University on which BBI is a collaborator.

November 2008

11.10.08 Blanck to present at the Aging and Disability: Perspectives in Law & Psychology Conference
• Schedule: Aging & Disability Conference (PDF file)
11.6.08 Blanck and Myhill co-present "Website Accessibility: Avoid Potential Liability Under Disability Laws" (PDF file)
• Web Accessibility Webcast
• Press Release: Web Accessibility Webcast
Hosted by Practicing Law Institute (PLI)

October 2008

10.22-23.2008 Global Universal Design Commission-Participatory Action Research (GUDC-PAR) Meeting on Universal Design [Word file]
: Hosted by the DBTAC: Southeast ADA Center
10.21.2008 Myhill presents "ADA Case Law Update"
: ADA Audio Conference Series,
Hosted by National Network of ADA Centers
10.17.2008 Blanck inducted into University of Rochester Athletic Hall of Fame during Hall of Fame Induction Dinner

September 2008

9.29.08 Blanck article: Employment of Persons with Disabilities featured in first edition of APA Spotlight on Disability newsletter.
9.26.08 Dr. Peter Blanck, Dr. Naomi Schreuer and Dr. Tal Araten-Bergman, along with Dr. Arie Rimmerman and others, to participate in Working Conference on Developing Disability Civil Society through the Internet
: G3ict Digital Accessibility Report (Oct. 2008) - Blanck and other BBI staff attend Conference on Developing Disability Civil Society through the Internet
9.24.08 Garry Shaheen and Me‘Shae Brooks-Rolling to co-present at NY Association of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services (NYAPRS)
9.23.08 – 9.24.08 Gary Shaheen to participate in Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) dialogue
9.17.08 FDIC Money Smart Train-the-Trainer Workshop
: Flyer: Money Smart Workshop (9-2008) [PDF file]
Hosted by: Start-UP NY
9.16.08 Blanck to keynote the Second Annual Conference of the Research Institute for Health and Medical Professions
: Schedule: Research Conference [Word file]
9.15.08 Me‘Shae Brooks-Rolling to present on "servicing people with disabilities through financial literacy and asset development" at Networking Day for Disability Advocates
: Program: Networking Day [PDF file]
9.10.08 Overcoming Challenges of Disability in Self Employment & the Importance of Support
: Flyer: Disability Lecture [PDF file]
Hosted by: Whitman School of Mgmt., BBI, & Start-UP NY
9.8.08 Michael Morris to present Asset Development Strategies at ODEP-PCPID Forum on Employment of People with Intellectual Disabilities
: Presentation: Asset Development Strategies by M. Morris [PowerPoint file]

August 2008

July 2008

7.30.08 Blanck to participate on NTAR Leadership Center - National Research Advisory Panel's State Leaders Innovation Institute Kick Off and Orientation Meeting
: Agenda: NTAR SLII Meeting [PDF file]
7.26.08
BBI collaborates with Whitman School's second annual Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities
: Apply for 2009 EBV Bootcamps
7.23.08
Blanck to keynote Options for Independence Annual Conference
SU Newsmakers: Peter Blanck
7.9.08 Blanck to present at Reframing the Disability Issue for Employers Forum by RRTC on Employment Policy for Persons with Disabilities
: Flyer: Disability & Employers Forum [PDF file]

June 2008

6.19.08 BBI co-sponsors FDIC Money Smart Train-the-Trainer Workshop
: Summary: Money Smart Workshop (6-2008)
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 [Word file]
: Invitation to Briefing Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities [Word file]
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
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 [PDF file]
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 [PDF file], 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 file]
- Living the Vision, about Scholarship in Action at Syracuse University [PDF file]
4.18.08 Blanck and Morris to serve on Advisory Panels for National Technical Assistance and Research (NTAR) Center
: Press Release: NTAR Advisory Panel [PDF file]
4.11.08
Peter Blanck to present at Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium 2008
4.8.08 Dr. Eynat Gal from University of Haifa to lecture Autism Research: from underlying mechanisms to participation
: Flyer: Autism Lecture [PDF file]
4.4.08 Brian McLane to present Thoughts on Raising Children with Disabilities [Word file] 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 file] | G3ict Digital Accessibility Report

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"
: Newsletter: Blanck EKU Lecture [Word file]
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 file]
2.5.08 David B. Marcu, Israel Elwyn Executive Director, presents "Services to People with Disabilities in Israel [PDF file]"

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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