Minda Incorporated

Time: 9.30am to 12.30pm

Location: Marquee on Brighton Lawns

Minda is pleased to announce details of its first Open Mind seminar for 2010. The seminar will feature several esteemed key note speakers.

Minda welcomes host Professor Jim Mansell, Director of the Tizard Centre at the University of Kent, England, as the first key note speaker. Professor Mansell founded the Tizard Centre, which boasts a large program of research, consultancy and teaching in intellectual disability and community care. He has been instrumental in the development of Active Support.

The second key note speaker is Dr Patricia O’Brien, Chair of Disability Studies and Director of the Centre for Disability Studies at the Royal Rehabilitation Centre, Sydney. We are equally pleased to have Dr O’Brien join us for the seminar.

Guest speakers include Minda’s self advocates, Kerri-Ann Messenger and Lianne Van Mierlo. Kerri-Ann and Lianne will be talking about their findings from the national annual conference on self advocacy, and also about self advocacy as a fundamental aspect of a human rights framework.