{"id":61874,"date":"2019-11-28T16:31:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=61874"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:33","slug":"carleton-experts-available-international-day-of-people-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/carleton-experts-available-international-day-of-people-with-disabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Experts Available: International Day of People with Disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Carleton Experts Available: International Day of People with Disabilities\n <\/h1>\n \n \n <\/header>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

As Dec. 3 is the International Day of People with Disabilities, Carleton experts are available to discuss topics related to accessibility, inclusion and disability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adrian Chan<\/strong>
\nProfessor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>: 613-520-2600, ext. 1535
\nEmail<\/strong>: Adrian.Chan@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chan is the director of Research and Education in Accessibility, Design and Innovation (READi) program \u2013 the first interdisciplinary post-secondary accessibility-training program offered in Canada. His research interests include biological signal processing, biomedical signal quality assessment, pattern recognition, assistive devices and non-invasive sensor systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boris Vukovic
\n<\/strong>Director, READ Initiative<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phone<\/strong>:  613-520-2600, ext. 1988
\nEmail<\/strong>: Boris.Vukovic@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his role as the director of the Research, Education, Accessibility and Design (READ) Initiative, Vukovic is committed to Carleton University\u2019s status as a national leader in accessibility. For more than 15 years, Vukovic has worked to support the success of Carleton students with disabilities \u2013 through leadership, direct student services, faculty development, applied research and professional standards. He has done research related to inclusive teaching practices of university faculty and disability-related assessments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry McCloskey
\n<\/strong>Director, Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>: Larry.McCloskey@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McCloskey is the director of Carleton\u2019s Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities (PMC). The PMC co-ordinates academic accommodations and provides a variety of support services to students with disabilities, including one-on-one learning support, note taking, adaptive equipment loans and sign language interpretation. The PMC is recognized throughout Ontario and across Canada for its service to students with disabilities and as a leader in accessibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Natalie Spagnuolo
\n<\/strong>Contract Instructor, Pauline Jewett Institute of Women’s and Gender Studies<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email<\/strong>:  Natalie.Spagnuolo@carleton.ca<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spagnuolo (she\/her\/hers) is a scholar of critical disability studies who is closely engaged in a number of disability organizations. Her interests span a range of topics related to citizenship and belonging \u2013 often emphasizing anti-colonial and intersectional approaches to oppression. Her areas of expertise include critical disability theory and practice, biopolitics, political economy, and critical policy studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spagnuolo has served as managing editor for disability and health-oriented journals. She is currently co-director of a community-based disability film project and workshop series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As Dec. 3 is the International Day of People with Disabilities, Carleton experts are available to discuss topics related to accessibility, inclusion and disability. Adrian Chan Professor, Department of Systems and Computer Engineering Phone: 613-520-2600, ext. 1535 Email: Adrian.Chan@carleton.ca Chan is the director of Research and Education in Accessibility, Design and Innovation (READi) program \u2013 the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":61875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[182,143,145],"class_list":["post-61874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-experts-available","tag-paul-menton-centre","tag-read-initiative","tag-pauline-jewett-institute-of-womens-and-gender-studies"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61877,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61874\/revisions\/61877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}