(626930) Ready to Address the Needs of Refugees With Disabilities? What Providers Need to Know

Wednesday, November 6

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Location: Salon C-1, Lower Level

Moderator(s)

N. Erkut Kucukboyaci, PhD

Associate Research Scientist
Kessler Foundation
East Hanover, New Jersey
Christina Papadimitriou, Ph.D. (Sociology)

Associate Professor, Departments of Interdisciplinary Health Sciences and Sociology
Oakland University
Rochester, Michigan

Presenter(s)

Maria Vlassopoulou, PhD

Professor
Univ of Athens
Athens, Attiki
Mansha Mirza, PhD

Associate Professor and Co-PI of PRIDE
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Fengyi Kuo, DHS, OTR, CPRP

Chief Therapy Officer
LIH Healthcare
Beijing, Beijing
Michel Landry, BScPT, PhD

Professor
Duke University
Durham, North Carolina
Rooshey Hasnain, Ed.D. / M.A.

Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Disability and Human Development and the Rehabilitation Sciences Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

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The symposium will explain the unique challenges facing refugees with disabilities (RWDs) and initiatives designed to facilitate their successful social and economic integration across various life areas. Drs. Kuo, Dr. Vlassopoulou and Dr. Landry will discuss their experiences, approach and outcomes from their recent projects around the globe, targeting community based life skills training with adolescent Burmese refugees resettled in central Indiana, functional language in asylum-seeking children in Greece and core competencies for physiotherapists working with RWDs in Norway. Drs. Hasnain and Mirza will introduce the PRIDE initiative in Chicago that empowers RWDs to pursue desired employment and educational paths.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion, participants will be able to articulate the current unmet needs of refugees around the globe.
Describe the actions needed to ensure that organizations around the globe build capacity appropriately for the unmet needs.
Understand the ongoing research with refugee communities and identify and target the research gaps.
seek out opportunities to collaborate with local community organizations to work more with this population.