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LIST OF CONFERENCES: 2005

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Conferences in 2005

January 18-22, 2005
ATIA 2005 Conference
Orlando, Florida, USA
Contact: ATIA Trade Show Sales Coordinator
401 North Michigan Ave.
Chicago, Illinois 60611
Tel: 312-673-4779
FAX: 312-245-1082
TTY:
E-mail: Smatthys@smithbucklin.com
WWW: www.atia.org/conf_2005.html

January 20-22, 2005
21st International Seating Symposium
Orlando, Florida, USA
Contact: Linda Szczepanski
Tel: 412-383-6602
FAX: 412-383-6597
TTY:
E-mail: szczepan@pitt.edu
WWW: www.iss.pitt.edu

February 13-17, 2005
HIMSS 2005 - CHITTA
Dallas, Texas, USA
Contact: Elaine Huesing, CHITTA
5782 172 street
Edmonton, AB T6M 1B4
Tel: 780-489-4574
FAX: 780-489-3290
TTY:
E-mail: elaine.huesing@shaw.ca
WWW: www.chitta.ca/himss05/HIMSS_pavilion.html

February 28 - March 1, 2005
Pacific Rim (Pac Rim) Conference on Disabilities
Waikiki, Hawaii, USA
Contact: Steve Potts, Martha Guinan, or Valerie Shearer
1776 University Avenue,
Honolulu Hawaii 96822
Tel: (808) 956-9810 or (808) 956-2673
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: cds@hawaii.edu
WWW: www.pacrim.hawaii.edu/

March 14-19, 2005
CSUN's 20th Annual International Conference "Technology and Persons with Disabilities"
Los Angeles, CA USA
Contact: Center on Disabilities
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street, Building 11, Suite 103
Northridge, CA 91330-8340
Tel: 818-677-2578
FAX: 818-677-4929
TTY:
E-mail: ctrdis@csun.edu
WWW: www.csun.edu/cod/conf/index.htm

March 17-19, 2005
International Conference on Telemedicine
Bangalore, INDIA
Contact:
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E-mail:
WWW: www.intelemedindia2005.com

March 29-31, 2005
International Conference on Accessible Tourism
Nairobi, Kenya
Postponed to September 28, 2005

April 4-7, 2005
Vision 2005
London, ENGLAND
Contact:
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E-mail:
WWW: www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/code/public_rnib004044.hcsp

April 5, 2005
Disability Research Institute 2005 Symposium
Washington, DC, USA
Contact: Pat Manns

Tel: (217) 265-0279
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: pmanns@uiuc.edu
WWW: www.dri.uiuc.edu/symposium2005.asp

April 5-7, 2005
FOSE
Washington, DC, USA
Contact: 10 G Street, NE, Suite 500
Washinton DC, USA 20002
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E-mail:
WWW: www.fose.com

April 14 - 15 2005
AT the Edge 2005
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Contact: Chris Beliveau
Assistive Device Service
Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital
10230-111 Avenue
Edmonton,Alberta, T5G 0B7
Tel: 780-491-6071
FAX: 780-491-6072
TTY:
E-mail: acrat2005@shaw.ca
WWW: www.acrat.ca

April 18-20, 2005
Congress 2005 - National Committee of Federal Public Servants with Disabilities
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Contact: Cathy Scott
National Committee of Federal Public Servants with Disabilities
360 Albert St., Room 1456
Ottawa ON K1A 0H8
Tel: 613-948-2987
FAX: 613-948-2236
TTY: 613-948-2159
E-mail:
WWW: www.ncfpsd-cnehfpf.gc.ca

April 21-23, 2005
Barrier Free 2005
Osaka, Japan
Contact: Consulate General of Canada
Osaka, Japan
Tel: +81 (6) 6212-4910
FAX: +81 (6) 6212-4914
TTY:
E-mail: osaka-td@international.gc.ca
WWW: www.itp.gr.jp/bf/

April 28-30, 2005
National Safety Symposium: Crime Prevention and Independent Living
Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
Contact:
Tel: 204-475-6964
FAX: 204-256-1764
TTY:
E-mail: cailc@mts.net
WWW: www.cailc.ca

April 30 - May 1, 2005
YPSA - Workshop on DAISY for ALL
Chittagong, Bangladesh
Contact: Arifur Rahman
Tel: 031-672875
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: arif@ypsa.org
WWW:

May 5, 2005
Northeast Assistive Technology Conference & Expo
Lowell, MA, USA
Contact: Bethany Jones, CLASS, Inc.
1 Parker Street
Lawrence, MA 01843
Tel: 978-975-8587 x1209
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: bjones@classinc.org
WWW: www.neatexpo.org

May 5-6, 2005
Pathways - Learning Disabilities Conference
Sudbury, Ontario, CANADA
Contact: Marlene McIntosh
Cambrian College
Glenn Crombie Centre for Disabilities
1400 Barrydowne Rd.
Sudbury, ON P3A 3V8
Tel: 705-566-8101 x7219
FAX: 705-566-5452
TTY:
E-mail: mrmcintosh@cambrianc.on.ca
WWW: homepages.cambrianc.on.ca/pathways

May 5-8, 2005
2005 International Accessible Tourism Conference
Taiwan
Contact: Emma Lichia Lee
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: emmalee@eden.org.tw
WWW: www.apatl.com

May 10, 2005
W4A 2005 Workshop
Chiba, JAPAN
Contact:
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TTY:
E-mail:
WWW: w4a.man.ac.uk

May 12, 2005
MEDEC 32nd Annual General Meeting & Conference
Woodbridge, Ontario, CANADA
Contact: MEDEC
401 The West Mall, Suite 450
Toronto, ON M9C 5J5
Tel: 416-620-1915
FAX: 416-620-1595
TTY:
E-mail: medec@medec.org
WWW: www.medec.org

May 13-14, 2005
Accessibility University
Austin, Texas, USA
Contact: Sherry Scott
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: sherry@knowbility.org
WWW: www.knowbility.org/conference

May 18, 2005
Conference on Accessible Biometrics
London, England
Contact: Dr. John Gill
RNIB Scientific Research Unit
105 Judd Street
London WC1H 9NE
Tel:
FAX: 020 7391 2318
TTY:
E-mail: john.gill@rnib.org.uk
WWW: www.tiresias.org/phoneability/biometrics_conference.htm

May 19-21, 2005
5th Annual Second City National Conference on Disability Studies in Education
New York, NY, USA
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WWW: www.tc.columbia.edu/ceoi/spring05/IDEA30.html

June 1, 2005
Convergent Medical Technologies, 1st Annual Conference
Markham, Ontario, CANADA
Contact: Nicole Mulholland
Tel: 416-843-9322
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail:
WWW:

June 2-4, 2005
CHHA Conference 2005 - Natural Sounds
Kelowna, British Columbia, CANADA
Contact: CHHA National Office
205-2435 Holly Lane
Ottawa, Ontario K1V 7P2
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail:
WWW: www.chha.ca

June 3-4, 2005
People in Motion 2005
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Contact:
Tel: 877-745-6555
FAX: 705-538-1988
TTY:
E-mail:
WWW: www.people-in-motion.com

June 7-11, 2005
Postsecondary Disability Training Institute
Portland, Maine, USA
Contact: Carrol Waite, Institute Manager
University of Connecticut
Center on Postsecondary Education and Disability
249 Glenbrook Road, Unit 2064
Storrs, CT 06269-2064
Tel: 860-486-3321
FAX: 860-486-5799
TTY:
E-mail: carrol.waite@uconn.edu
WWW: www.cped.uconn.edu

June 9-10, 2005
@Media 2005, Web Standards and Accessibility
London, ENGLAND
Contact:
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TTY:
E-mail:
WWW: www.atmedia2005.co.uk

June 9-11, 2005
Collective Assistive Technology Conference
Westminster, Colorado, USA
Contact: Maureen Melonis
Assistive Technology Partners/SWAAAC
1245 E. Colfax Ave., Suite 200
Denver, CO 80218
Tel: 303.315.1280
FAX: 303.837.1208
TTY: 303.837.8964
E-mail: maureen.melonis@uchsc.edu
WWW: www.uchsc.edu/atp

June 23-27, 2005
RESNA 2005 - 25 years of Rehabilitation Engineering
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Contact: Rosina Romano, RESNA
Tel: 703-524-6686 x306
FAX: 703-524-6630
TTY: 703-524-6639
E-mail: resna2005@resna.org
WWW: www.resna.org

June 27-30, 2005
Instructional Technology and Education of the Deaf Symposium
Rochester, New York, USA
Contact: E. William Clymer
National Institute for the Deaf
52 Lomb Memorial Dr.
Rochester, NY 14623-5604
Tel: 585-475-4661
FAX: 585-475-6544
TTY:
E-mail: techsym@rit.edu
WWW: www.rit.edu/~techsym

July 2-6 2005
AusWeb 05
Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
Contact:
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail:
WWW: ausweb.scu.edu.au/index.html

July 4-6, 2005. Sherbrooke, Canada
ICOST'2005 3rd International Conference On Smart homes and health Telematics
Contact: Pr. Sylvain Giroux
Université de Sherbrooke
2500 Boul. Université de Sherbrooke
Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1
Tel: +1 819 821-8000 ext.: 3078
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: icost2005@usherbrooke.ca
WWW: http://icost2005.domus.usherbrooke.ca/

July 7 2005
Defining and Developing a Profitable Web Accessibility Strategy
London, UK
Contact: Tiffany Bloor
389 Chiswick High Road
London W4 4AL
Tel: +44 (0)20 8996 9001
FAX: +44 (0)20 8996 7001
TTY:
E-mail: seminars@bsi-global.com
WWW: www.bsi-global.com/seminars

July 22-27, 2005
First International Conference on Usability and Internationalization
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Contact: Kerstin Röse
Tel: +011 (49)631-205-3571
FAX: +011 (49)631-205-3705
TTY:
E-mail: roese@mv.uni-kl.de
WWW:

July 24-30, 2005
Building A Destination For All St John
St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Contact: Victor Nunnally
Estate Concordia
20-27 Estate Concordia
St John, USVI 00830
Tel: 340-693-5347
FAX: 340-693-5960
TTY:
E-mail: victor@maho.org
WWW: www.maho.org/SpecialEvents.cfm

August 2 - 6, 2005
AHEAD 2005
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Contact: AHEAD
Tel: 617-287-3880
FAX:
TTY: 617-287-3882
E-mail: ahead@umb.edu
WWW: www.ahead.org/

August 4, 2005
AAC EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE: HONORING THE VALUES OF FAMILIES AND PEOPLE WHO RELY ON AAC
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA
Contact: Katya Hill, PhD
AAC Institute
338 Meadville Street
Meadville, PA 16412
Tel: 814-392-6625
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: khill@aacinstitute.org
WWW: www.aacinstitute.org/Resources/Symposium/2005/symposiumannouncement.html

August 12-15, 2005
REHACARE International 2005
Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Contact:
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E-mail:
WWW: www.messe-duesseldorf.de/rehacare2005/

August 15-19, 2005
MEC '05
Fredericton, New Brunswick, CANADA
Contact:
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: ghughes@unb.ca
WWW: www.unb.ca/biomed/mec

August 23 - 25, 2005
Accessible Design in the Digital World
Dundee, Scotland
Contact: Lorna Gibson
Digital Media Access Group
Department of Applied Computing
University of Dundee
Dundee DD14HN
Scotland, UK
Tel: +44 1382 345050
FAX: +44 1382 345509 FAO:DMAG
TTY:
E-mail: lgibson@computing.dundee.ac.uk
WWW: www.accessinthedigitalworld.org/2005/

August 26-28, 2005
Abilities Expo - Metro Detroit
Novi, Michigan, USA
Contact:
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail:
WWW: www.abilitiesexpo.com

September 6-9, 2005
8th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe
Lille, France
Contact: AAATE
140 cours Charlemagne
69002 Lyon France
Tel: +33(0)4 72 77 45 50
FAX: +33(0)4 72 77 45 77
TTY:
E-mail: t.garmier@package.fr
WWW: www.aaate2005.com/

September 14, 2005
E-Access'05
London, ENGLAND
Contact:
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: headstar@headstar.com
WWW: www.headstar-events.com/eaccess05/

September 15-16, 2005
Workplace Accomodations - State of the Science
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Contact: Carrie Bruce
CATEA - Georgia Institute of Technology
490- 10th Street
Atlanta, GA 30332
Tel: 404-385-1718
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail:
WWW: www.workrerc.org/sos

September 18-22, 2005
World Congress on Safety and Health At Work
Orlando, Florida, USA
Contact: Stuart Basefsky
Director, IWS News Bureau
Institute for Workplace Studies
Cornell/ILR School
16 E. 34th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Tel: (607) 255-2703
FAX: (607) 255-9641
TTY:
E-mail: smb6@cornell.edu
WWW: www.osha.gov/as/opa/XVII-wcshw.html

September 22-23, 2005
Annual Rockland County NY Symposium on Assistive Technology
Suffern, NY
Contact: Mark Bresler
NY Assistive Technology and Occupational Therapy P.C.
PO Box 639
W Haverstraw NY
Tel: 845 947 0377
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: tposner@NYatot.com
WWW: NYatot.com

September 23, 2005
International Biophilia Rehabilitation Conference
Berlin (DRFZ), Germany
Contact: aoki@civilnet.org
7-5-4 Zengyo Fujisawa-Shi
Japan 251-0871
Tel: 81 466 84 0204
FAX: 81 466 81 8815
TTY:
E-mail: aoki@civilnet.org
WWW: www.biophilia.info/berlin

September 28-29, 2005
IDEAS
Washington, D.C., USA
Contact:
Tel: 202-772-5746
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail:
WWW: www.ideas508.com

September 28-30, 2005
International Conference on Accessible Tourism
Nairobi, Kenya
Postponed to October 17, 2005

October 9-12, 2005
ASSETS 2005: The Seventh International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Contact: Andrew Sears.
Information Systems Department, UMBC
1000 Hilltop Drive
Baltimore, MD 21250 USA
Tel: 410.455.3883
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: asears@umbc.edu
WWW: www.acm.org/sigaccess/assets05/

October 17-18, 2005
Aging by Design
Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
Contact: Gail Wessell
Tel: 781-891-3481
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: agingbydesign@bentley.edu
WWW: www.bentley.edu/events/agingbydesign2005

October 17 - 19, 2005
International Conference on Accessible Tourism
Nairobi, Kenya
Contact: Kenya Disabled Development society
2005 Conference Secretariat
P.O. Box 40500 00100 GPO
Nairobi KENYA
Tel: 254-720-261239 /721-938757
FAX: 254-20-230060
TTY:
E-mail: bodo@avu.org
WWW: rdi.pl/kdds

October 20-21, 2005
Challenges in Regenerative Medicine Conference
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Contact:
Tel:
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TTY:
E-mail:
WWW: www.charm2005.org

October 20-22, 2005
23rd Annual Closing the Gap Conference
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Contact: Closing the Gap
526 Main St., PO Box 68
Henderson, Minnesota 56044
Tel: 507-248-3294
FAX: 507-248-3810
TTY:
E-mail: info@closingthegap.com
WWW: www.closingthegap.com/conf

October 23-26, 2005
White House Conference on Aging 2005
Washington D.C., USA
Contact: Allan Kleiman
C/o Westfield Memorial Library
550 East Broad Street
Westfeild, NJ 07090
Tel: 908-789-4090 x4122
FAX: 908-789-9021
TTY:
E-mail: Kleiman@aol.com
WWW: www.whcoa.gov

November 8-11, 2005
Accessing Higher Ground 2005
Boulder, Colorado
Contact:
Tel: 303-492-8671
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: hkramer@colorado.edu
WWW: www.colorado.edu/ATconference

November 10-11, 2005
GLANET 2005 Annual General Meeting
Manama, BAHRAIN
Contact: Susanne M. Bruyere
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: smb23@cornell.edu
WWW: www.gladnet.org/events.cfm?pageID=4

November 15-18, 2005
2nd Phase - World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS)
Tunis, TUNISIA
Contact:
Tel:
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TTY:
E-mail:
WWW: www.itu.int/wsis/tunis/events/index.html

November 16, 2005
Reading Better Ireland
Dundalk, IRELAND
Contact:
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E-mail:
WWW: www.seeingbetterireland.org

November 17-18, 2005
Techshare 2005
Birmingham, UK
Contact:
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: techshare@rnib.org.uk
WWW: www.rnib.org.uk/techshare

November 19-22, 2005
European Academy of Childhood Disability - Congress 2005
Monaco
Contact: Philippe Evrard
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: philippe.evrard@rdb.ap-hop-paris.fr
WWW: www.eacd2005.org

November 21, 2005
3D, Diversity, Dynamics, Dollars - a perspective on disability management
Toronto, Ontario, CANADA
Contact: Max MacDonald
Tel:
FAX: 416-425-1920
TTY:
E-mail:
WWW:

December, 1-3, 2005
World Congress & Exposition on Disabilities
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Contact:

Tel: 201-226-1446
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: wcdinfo@wcdexpo.com
WWW: www.wcdexpo.com

December 3, 2005
Human Rights and Disability - A Global Challenge
Cambridge, MA, USA
Contact: Prof. Michael Stein
Areeda Hall, 127 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Tel: 617-496-4867
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: mistein@law.harvard.edu
WWW:

December 8-10, 2005
National Conference on Disability Inclusion & National Service
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
Contact:
Tel: 888-491-0326
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: nsip@umb.edu
WWW: www.serviceandinclusion.org

December 12-15, 2005
2nd International Conference on Technology, Knowledge & Society
Hyderabad, INDIA
Contact:
Tel:
FAX:
TTY:
E-mail: info-T06@commongroundconferences.com
WWW: t06.cgpublisher.com/welcome.html

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