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February 27, 2008
Web Cast--Serving Vets Returning with Disabilities
One of the most demanding issues today: understanding how to assist service men and women returning from Iraq and Afganistan with disabilities.
A day-long conference will be held this Friday, February 29, to examine this and other critical factors in"Working on the Front: Ethics in Rehabilitation of Veterans."
Join the Web cast to sit in on the whole conference or selected portions of it. (Below is the agenda. Note that it starts at 8:15 and goes until 4:30. CT.)
This important conference is hosted by Southern University's Department of Rehabilitation and Disability Studies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
AGENDA
8:20 AM - 8:40 AM
Welcoming Remarks
8:45 AM - 10:15 AM
Ms. Dinah Cohen, U.S. Dept. of Defense
Leading the Way with Accommodations
10:20 AM - 11:45 AM
Dr. Darlyne Nemeth, Delegate to the United Nations
Comprehensive Outpatient Rehabilitation for Returning Veterans with Head Injury: Ethical vs Moral Issues
11:50 AM - 12:50 PM
LUNCH BREAK
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
CSI Inititiative Ceremony
1:25 PM - 2:50 PM
Dr. James Malec, Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana
Evidence-Based and Ethical Practice in Rehabilitation for TBI and Polytrauma
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Mr. Olligario Cantos, VII, U.S. Dept. of Justice
Civil Rights and Veterans with Disabilities: Rights and Responsibilities
3:55 PM - 4:30 PM
Mr. Roger Otzenberger and Ms. LaShunda Dudley, Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs
VA Chapter 31 Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment Program: Eligibility Criteria, and
Services for Veterans with Service-Connected Disabilities
Sponsors
Department of Rehabilitation and Disability Studies,
National Council on Rehabilitation Education,
Louisiana Rehabilitation Services,
Rehabilitation Research Institute for Underrepresented Populations,
Project Rehabilitation of Ethnic Minorities,
Project Vocational Evaluation and Work Adjustment
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This Web cast is a collaboration of ILRU with the Rehabilitation Research Institute for Underrepresented Populations, headquartered at the Department of Rehabilitation and Disability Studies of Southern University-Baton Rouge, one of the country's historically black universities. For more information, go to http://www.subr.edu/science/rehabcounsel/RRIUP/Goal.htm
Support is received from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research. The opinions and views expressed are those of the presenters and no endorsement by the funding agency should be inferred.
Posted by Nancy at February 27, 2008 09:20 AM