PROGRAMME

Friday March 8

Pre-conference events

1pm – 4pm Public Forum (open invite)

"Official recognition of NZSL: What does this mean?

What should it mean? "

Speakers include international guests Colin Allen & Breda Carty, NZ Government departments and Deaf community leaders.

Hosted by the NZ Human Rights Commission

(Lambton Rooms)

Organisation private meetings (pre-booked)

Conference

4.30 - 7.30 Pōwhiri (Māori welcome) and Welcome Reception

(Lambton Rooms)

7pm Deaf Short Film Competition film screening

(Featherston Room)

* Wellington Deaf Club will be open from 7pm. 32 Marion Street. Conference visitors welcome (gold coin entry). Auction.

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Saturday March 9

9.00 -10.15 Conference Opening: Her Worship the Mayor of Wellington, Celia Wade-BrownKeynote: "Equality for Deaf people: How do we get there?"Colin Allen    (Lambton Rooms)

10.15 – 10.45 BREAK

Lambton 1 Lambton 2 Roseanna Room Featherston Room

10.45 – 11.15 Golden Age of Deaf Technology. How modern technology can enable equality for Deaf New ZealandersSonia Pivac, Catherine Greenwood, Daniel Hanks

Disability Policy and Indigenous Deaf PopulationsKatrina Miller & Damara Goff Paris

‘Energise’ report on youth issuesLara Draper

10.30 – 11.20am

Deaf Short Film competition films (note start time is 10.30am)

11.30am – 12.15pm

Christchurch earthquake and Deaf documentary

11.15 – 11.45 With or without you: Diversity in the Deaf communityJosje Lelyveld & Joyce Ferguson

Deaf in Vanuatu: One of our Pacific neighboursJacqui Iseli

Magnet Youth ProgrammeUrsula Thynne

11.45 - 12.15 Deaf Arts Network NZRachel Coppage

Evolving identities and leadership characteristics of indigenous Deaf women.Damara Goff Paris

NZ Deaf Youth GamesDaniel Harborne

12.15 – 1.30 LUNCH

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Lambton 1 Lambton 2 Roseanna Room Featherston Room

1.30 – 3.00 How to research Deaf history(workshop)Breda Carty

Community Development(workshop)Della Buzzard

Deaf education: current trends affecting NZSL using students Panel facilitator: Rachel Coppage

1.30 – 2.20pm

Deaf Short Film competition films

3.00 – 3.30 BREAK

3.30 – 4.00 Deaf, disabled: Same or different? Together or separate?Victoria Manning

Online Deaf Community Asset MapLachlan Keating & Della Buzzard

Responding to the changing context of deaf education. Residential immersion courses for mainstream deaf students.Van Ach Deaf Education Centre

3.30 – 4.30pm

Sign of the Times: the story of New Zealand’s visual language

4.00 - 4.30 Making the Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities work for the changing communityRachel Noble

Deaf migrants to Australia: What are the key problems they face and how might we solve them?Louisa Willoughby

Deaf students' issues and challenges within tertiary education. What can we learn?Denise Powell

4.30 – 5.00 Community change through sign language teaching; a twenty year retrospective.David McKee

SignDNA: Protecting our visual treasuresSonia Pivac & Catherine Greenwood

Māori Deaf children: Is early intervention whānau friendly?Kirsten Smiler

6.30 pm Conference Banquet & Deaf Short Film Competition Awards

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Sunday March 10

9.15 - 10.15 Keynote: “Changing concepts of culture and identity – do Deaf people still have a community?”Dr Breda Carty (Lambton Rooms)

10.15 – 10.45 BREAK

Lambton 1 Lambton 2 Roseanna Room Featherston Room10.45 – 11.15 The Human Rights

Commission’s NZSL InquiryVictoria Manning & Jack Byrne

Sexuality experiences of Deaf women in NZ: An action research projectSunshine Prior

Interpreting for agesMegan Mansfield

10.45 – 11.45am

Sign of the Times: the story of New Zealand’s visual language

11.45am – 12.30pm

Christchurch earthquake and Deaf documentary

11.15 – 12.30 Exploring leadership in our changing communityWorkshop facilitator: Rachel Noble

Deafblindness in Aotearoa NZWorkshop facilitators: Elinor Cuttiford & Zoe Haws

Deaf Senior Citizens' issuesPanel facilitator: Joyce Ferguson

12.30 – 1.30 LUNCH

Lambton 1 Lambton 2 Roseanna Room Lambton 31.30 – 2.30 Deaf Clubs in the 21st

century (panel discussion)Facilitator: Sonia Pivac

Maori Deaf whakawhanaungatangaFacilitator: Patrick Thompson

Spiritual mentoring of Deaf people (workshop)Celia King

Deaf mental health services: Designing a new path.Geoff Bridgeman et al

2.30 - 3.30 The future of our NZ Deaf communityPanel Facilitator: Victoria Manning (Lambton rooms)

3.30 - 4.00 Afternoon tea & farewells

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