Pac Rim 2009 Info
Independent Living
What Do We Want?
“Disability is a natural part of the human experience.”
Justin Dart
“Disability is Natural”
Kathie Snow
Living with a disability is a fact of life that almost everyone will experience, either personally, or through their family or friends. Presentations will explore many questions relating to independent living. How does a person with a disability live independently in today’s society? What does independent living mean? Who defines an individual’s independence? What do we want independent living to be in the 21st century? How are perceptions of choice about independent living defined? How does independent living change across and within cultures, space, time, disability experiences? How has independent living evolved since the 1970s? How does independent living relate to educational settings? Presentations include:
- Enhancing self-determination for better independent living
- Your Mind, Your Education, Your Options: How to Make Postsecondary Education Part of Your Path to Independence
- Using the Logic Model for Planning and Evaluation with Community and Vocational Rehabilitation Programs
- “I’m the Happiest I’ve Ever Been”
- Person Centered Planning-Turning Dream into a reality
- Innovative Independent Living Collaborations in Minnesota
- Independent Living in Hawai‘i and the Pacific
- Feeling Safe, Being Safe: Emergency Preparedness Materials and Training
- Using Medicaid to Support the Economic Self Sufficiency of People with Disabilities
Topic Speakers | Download Topic Brochure (PDF Format)
For more information, please visit: http://www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/submissions or contact the topic leaders: Yevgeniy Tetyukhin at: yevgenitet@hotmail.com or Steve Brown at: sebrown@hawaii.edu or Lillian Gonzales Brown at: eccentriclil@gmail.com. For information about the 2009 Pacific Rim Conference please contact prinfo@hawaii.edu or call 956-7539.
