Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities

University of Colorado
Boulder · Colorado Springs · Denver

The 6th Annual Coleman Institute Conference

Advances in Cognitive Disability and Technology

October 24, 2006
OMNI Interlocken Hotel
Broomfield, Colorado

   
7:45 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
   
8:30 a.m. Welcome and Remarks
   
  David Braddock, PhD
  Associate Vice President, University of Colorado System and Executive Director, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities
   
  Alice Elliot, Academy Award Finalist, presents a World Premier Private Screening of her new film on technology, personal independence and cognitive disability: “BODY AND SOUL: Diana and Kathy”
   
9:45 a.m. Poster Session:  Selected Interdisciplinary Research Projects
  Involving CU Faculty, Graduate Students, Academic and Commercial Partners, and Exhibitors
   
11:00 a.m. Keynote Session: 
  Advances in Robotics and in Repurposing Commercial Technologies
   
  Maja Mataric, PhD
  Professor, Computer Science and Neuroscience, Founding Director, Center For Robotics and Embedded Systems, University of Southern California School Of Engineering “Assistive Interactive Human-Centered Robotics for People With Cognitive Disabilities”
   
  Ramesh Rao, PhD
  Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering;
  Director, California Institute For Telecommunications And Information Technology, University Of California At San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering
  “Repurposing And Leveraging Commercial Technologies for People with Cognitive Disabilities”
   
12:30 p.m. Lunch and Continuing Poster Session
   
2:00 p.m. Distinguished Guest Speaker
   
  John Kemp, Esq.
  Principal at Powers, Pyles, Sutter and Verville, P.C.
  Noted Disability Rights Advocate and Former CEO, United Cerebral Palsy Associations
  “What’s Happening In Washington?”
   
  Introduced by Claudia Coleman, Founding Donor, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities
   
2:45 p.m. Break
   
3:00 p.m. Distinguished Guest Speaker
   
  Michael Wehmeyer, PhD
  Professor of Special Education And Director of The Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities, University of Kansas, A RERC-ACT Collaborating Organization
   
  “Technology to Promote Decision-Making Skills, Self-Determination, and Health for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities”
   
  Introduced by Cathy Bodine, PhD, Principal Investigator, Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center for the Advancement of Cognitive Technologies (RERC-ACT), University of Colorado
   
  Respondent:  Michael Rogers, Division of Developmental Disabilities, State of Washington and Self-Advocate
   
3:45 p.m. Cognitive Accessibility on The Web
   
  Moderated By: Clayton Lewis, PhD, Coleman Institute Scientist-In-Residence and Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
   
  Panelists:
  Richard Appleyard, PhD, Assistant Professor, Medical Informatics, Oregon Health and Sciences University
  Judy Brewer, Director, Web Accessibility Initiative of The World Wide Web Consortium and Research Associate, MIT
  Bill Coleman, CEO, Cassatt and Founding Donor, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities
  Laurie Powers, PhD, Professor and Director, National Center For Self-Determination, Portland State University
  Jutta Treviranus, Director, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
  Nancy Ward, Oklahoma Disabilities Law Center and Self-Advocate
   
5:00 p.m. Final Poster Session and Reception
  Special Guest: Hank Brown,
  President of The University of Colorado System
   
6:00 p.m. Dinner
  Temple Grandin, PhD, Dinner Speaker
  Professor, Colorado State University; New York Times Best-Selling Author of “Thinking In Pictures and Other Reports From My Life With Autism,” And “Animals in Translation:  Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior” “How to Develop the Abilities of People Who Think Differently”

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