Pac Rim 2009 Info
Hidden Disabilities
Making our Voices Known
The Hidden Disabilities topic area will focus on adults with learning disabilities, Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorders (ADHD), psychiatric disorders, health conditions, traumatic brain injury and more. We will explore advocacy and policy orientations that address hidden disabilities within the context of inclusionary human progress for the 21st century. What needs to be done to ensure the social well being for persons with hidden disabilities? What do we need to advocate for? What are best practices already in existence that can lead us towards our common vision of an inclusive, sustainable and just world? Presentations will include people with hidden disabilities speaking for themselves using various creative formats. Also, we are hosting two special workshops—Video Diaries and a creative writing seminar on ‘autobiography.’ Stay tuned for these developments.
We have presentations that focus on personal success stories/role model advice, sustainable support systems, system change, social justice and policy issues, and successful trainings and projects. Presentations include:
- Working Memory in Adults with Previously Undiagnosed Learning Disabilities
- Lyme Disease in Schools
- Health and Weight Status and their Relation to School Outcomes for Children with Hidden Disabilities: A Review of the Literature
- Diabetes: A Hidden Disability
- A First-person Journey of Bipolar Disorder: Insight, Resources, Hope
- First Grade Failure
- A Multi-state Collaborative to Improve Access to Services for Children with Epilepsy in Rural and Frontier Communities in Alaska, California, Nevada and Wyoming
- Math Anxiety (are you shaking already?)
- Uncovering ADD: strategies for transition youth
- Comprehension, Time Expended, and Perspectives of a Doctoral Student with a Learning Disability
- Transition to Post-Secondary Education for Students with Traumatic Brain Injury: A Longitudinal Qualitative Study
- Diabetes: A Hidden Disability
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For more information, please visit http://pacrim.hawaii.edu/submissions, or contact the topic leaders: Madeline Harcourt at Harcourt@hawaii.edu, Kathy Richins at krichins@hawaii.edu, or Charmaine Crockett at cccrocke@hawaii.edu.
