RESNA International committee meeting
- Venue: Atlanta, Georgia USA
- Date: Saturday, June 21, 2003
Participants
- Katherine D. Seelman, Ph.D. Chair, RESNA Board, University of Pittsburgh, US
kds31@pitt.edu - Yvonne Duncan, ARATA Board Member
ydunc@netspan.net.au - Harry Knops, AAATE, President-elect
h.knops@iru.nl - Manuel Monteiro, European Commission
mauel.monteiro@cec.eu.int - Ilkka Saarnio, ICTA
ilkka.saarnio@parconec.fi - Alex Mihailidis, RESNA Canada
amihaili@SFU.ca - Geoff Ernie, University of Toronto
geoff.fernie@sw.ca - Motoi Suwa, National Rehabilitation Center for Persons with Disabilities
suwa@rehab.go.jp - Osamu Sueda, Past President of RESJA
o-sueda@eco.tokushima-u.ac.jp - Jeff Jutai, University of Western Ontario, Canada
jjutai@uwo.ca - Bill Peterson, NIDRR
William.Peterson@ed.gov - Al Cook, University of Alberta
al.cook@ualberta.ca - Poornina Attigudam, SC Vocational Rehabilitation Department
poorniam@hotmail.com - Mary Binion, RESNA Past President/ORCUSH
Mary_binion@orclish.org
Upcoming meetings
- ARATA Conference Australia
- RESNA, June 18-22, 2004, Rosen Centre Hotel, Orlando, Florida, USA
- CIRRE, International collaboration in research
- AAATE, Dublin, August 31-September 3, 20003
(involvement of 24 Institutes and 2 AT industries) - ICTA, South Africa
Discussion/issues
European Commission
- WAI mandatory
- Working closely with UN effort on Convention on Human Rights for People with Disabilities
ICTA
Exploring relations with international organizations.
RESNA Canada
- Supportive of more collaboration and perhaps a consortium on outcome measures; relevance of and coding for ICF (Jeff Jutai)
- Identifying funding for international scientific exchange and research collaboration (Jeff Jutai)
- Canadian International Development Agency support of Thailand, $50,000 prize for AT (Al Cook)
NIDRR USA
Two international centers: CIRRE (Buffalo) and CIR (Chicago).
Seelman, USA
Add representatives to the committee from large countries such as PR of China, India and other countries from Africa, S. America and Asia