Disability and Wellbeing Workshop Event

Programme

Time
09:30-10:00	Coffee and welcome
10:00-11:30	Professor Simo Vehmas (Stockholm) Persons with profound intellectual disability and their right to sex
11:30-11:45	Coffee break
11:45-13:15	Dr Caroline Harnacke (Tilburg) Knowledge of disability and disabled people’s knowledge
13:15-14:15	Lunch
14:15-15:45	Dr Alex Gregory (Southampton) "Are disabilities bad?"
15:45-16:00	Coffee break
16:00-17:30	Professor Jonathan Wolff (Oxford) "Cognitive Disability and Inclusion"
19:00	Dinner at Brewhouse and Kitchen (47 Highfield Lane)

Accessibility Information

• The room for the conference, the nearby lunch, and the dinner venue, are all accessible to wheelchair users.
• There are disabled toilets a short distance from the room, and the dinner venue also has a disabled toilet.
• There will be a short break between each session and the Q&A.
• The registration fee will be waived for personal assistants to disabled people.
• We are happy to provide sign-language interpretation, though we will need to know by February 1st if it is required.
• We cannot provide a hearing loop, but can provide a Roger Pen, though we will need to know by March 1st if it is required.
• We can permit service animals to attend.
• A nearby quiet room can be made available if required.
• The venue(s) will all have available seating.
• We generally expect attendees to travel between venues by foot (500m to the dinner venue), but there is nearby parking to all venues, and taxis can be arranged.
• We will permit questions during Q&A to be written down rather than spoken out loud.
• We aim to accommodate all dietary requirements. Please state such needs when you register

Further, we will ask all speakers to aim to make their presentations accessible.

Do please contact Tracy Storey if you have further questions or needs not resolved above.