Over the next few days/weeks, I will be posting my thoughts about a fabulous conference I attended last fall sponsored by the Silicon Flatirons in Boulder, CO. It was co-sponsored by the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, also based at CU Boulder. I had just come off from an intense period of study about special ed law because we were about to enter the IEP process with Siobhan. I was looking around for relevant licensing and contract related work, and I found this conference that was perfectly situated between IT, disability law, and law. It was astonishing that I heard about this conference just days before it started, and located just minutes away from where we live and work. I went to the conference as a smart if uneducated observer in the field of disability law.
I was amazed by what I learned. The world of assistive technology, accessibility issues, universal design, and the range of legal issues surrounding all of the foregoing astonished me. It's certainly a world I never saw in law school, or since then. And I imagine that many people never have cause to enter the world. Why would you, if you never had to go through a cognitive or motor planning evaluation of your child? Or an IEP meeting? Or a medical evaluation of your child's EEG scan?
I will be sharing what I learned at the conference over a series of posts on the blog, in an effort to both solidify my thoughts as well as disseminate some of these cool ideas to a wider audience. Many thanks to the organizers and presenters at the conference, and I hope that I can do justice to the work they shared.
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