Conferences Related to Technology, Web Accessibility and Cognitive Disabilities

Two upcoming- and two recent conferences are listed below along with their related topics and presenters.

Upcoming Conferences

All Together Now: The Power of Partnerships In Cognitive Disability & Technology

• October 21, 2010 – Westminster, Colorado, U.S.
• Forty Years after PARC v The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Is there a right to technology access? – Gilhool, Thomas
• A Partnership for Technology to Improve Quality of Life – Pietrangelo, Renee
• Accessible TeleMEd and eHealth Strategies for People with Cognitive Disabilities – O’Hara, David
• Technologies to Improve Quality of Life for People with Cognitive Disabilities – Kautz, Henry
• Developing an Accessible National Information Infrastructure for People with Cognitive Disabilities – Coleman, Bill

Web Accessibility London 2010 Unconference

• September 21, 2010 – London, England
  • “The unconference will have a motor impairment theme … ” but “… will also consider cognitive impairments and the wider-disability population.”

Recent Conferences

12^th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs

• July 14 to 16, 2010 – Vienna, Austria
• Track IV, Session C: People with Specific Learning and Cognitive Problems: ICT, AT and HCI
  • Developing a Multimedia Environment to Aid in Vocalization for People on the Autism Spectrum: A User-Centered Design Approach – Al-Wabil, Areej
  • EasyICT: a Framework for Measuring ICT -Skills of People with Cognitive Disabilities – Dekelver, Jan
  • Involving users in the design of ICT aimed to improve education, work, and leisure for users with intellectual disabilities – Gutiérrez y Restrepo, Emmanuelle
  • Methodological Considerations for Involving SpLD Practitioners in the Design of Interactive Learning Systems  – Karim, Latifa
  • PDA software aimed at improving workplace adaptation for people with cognitive disabilities  – Ferreras, Alberto
  • The Performance of Mouse Proficiency for Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities – Wu, Ting-Fang
  • Towards an Interactive Screening Program for Developmental Dyslexia: Eye Movement Analysis in Reading Arabic Texts – Al-Wabil, Areej
  • When Words Fall Short: Helping People with Aphasia to Express – Al Mahmud, Abdullah

• Track IV, Session D: Easy – to – Web
  • Adaptive Reading: A Design of Reading Browser with Dynamic Alternative Text Multimedia Dictionaries for the Text Reading Difficulty Readers – Chu, Chi Nung
  • Easy-to-web search for people with learning disabilities as part of an integrated conception of cognitive web accessibility – Erle, Markus
  • EasyWeb – A Study How People with Specific Learning Difficulties Can Be Supported on Using the Internet – Matausch, Kerstin
  • In-Folio: An Open Source Portfolio for students with learning disabilities – Ball, Simon
  • Supporting the web experience of young people with learning disabilities – Weber, Harald
  • The need for Easy-to-Read information on web sites – Bohman, Ulla

Annual Conference of The American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

• June 9, 2010 – Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
• Making Your Information Available to People with ID by Building Accessible Websites – Taylor, Lynne

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