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• A Defense Department Priority for Blind Wounded Warriors
  Colonel Donald Gagliano, M.D., Executive Director, Department of Defense/Department of Veterans Affairs Vision Center of Excellence (17 MB)
• 2010 Presidential Report
  Dr. Marc Maurer, President, National Federation of the Blind (60 MB)
• The Blind Driver Operating a Vehicle at Speed: Creating the Technology That Puts the Controls Under Our Hands
  Parnell Diggs, Esq., Coordinator, Race for Independence; President, National Federation of the Blind of South Carolina (17 MB)
• SWEP and the Bars of Our Prison
  Scott LaBarre, Esq., LaBarre Law Offices; President, National Federation of the Blind of Colorado (26 MB)
• The Xavier Society for the Blind: Serving the Blind Since 1900
  Father John R. Sheehan, S.J., Chairman, Board of Directors, Xavier Society for the Blind (17 MB)
• One Million Books for the Print Disabled and More to Come
  Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian (12 MB)
• Not Just Surviving the Disaster of September 11 But Providing Leadership in a Deadly Emergency
  Michael Hingson, President, Michael Hingson Group (39 MB)

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• 2010 Presidential Report
  Dr. Marc Maurer, President, National Federation of the Blind (155 MB)

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

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• The Apex and Other Developments at HumanWare
  Gilles Pepin, Chief Executive Officer, HumanWare (21 MB)
• The Failure of the Educational System in Meeting the Needs of the Blind (66 MB)
  • • Mark Riccobono, Moderator; Executive Director, National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute (3 MB)
    • Sheila Amato, Ed.D., University Teacher Trainer (12 MB)
    • Noreen Grice, Founder and President of You Can Do Astronomy, LLC (11 MB)
    • Laura Webber, Secretary, National Organization of Parents of Blind Children (14 MB)
    • Eric Vasiliauskas M.D., parent and advocate (17 MB)
• Assuring Internet Accessibility
  Preety Kumar, Chief Executive Officer, Deque Systems, Inc. (8 MB)
• Strategic Initiatives Report
  John Paré, Executive Director for Strategic Initiatives, National Federation of the Blind
  Jesse Hartle, Governmental Affairs Specialist, National Federation of the Blind
  Lauren McLarney, Governmental Affairs Specialist, National Federation of the Blind (37 MB)

Thursday, July 8, 2010

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• Buying and Selling Online: Ebay Builds Accessibility for the Blind into its Platform
  Dane Glasgow, Vice President, Buyer Experience Product Management, Ebay, Inc. (13 MB)
• Braille is Literacy
  Deane Blazie, Inventor (12 MB)
• Eighty-four Languages and Growing
  Frank Kurt Cylke, Director, National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress (19 MB)
• Educating Blind Children: Changing the Paradigm
  Fredric K. Schroeder, Ph.D.; Research Professor; San Diego State University (19 MB)
• Toward Full Employment for Blind Americans
  Lynnae Ruttledge, Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services Administration, United States Department of Education (9 MB)
• Accessible Education for All, Including the Blind: Meeting the Standard
  Jessica Finnefrock, Senior Vice President, Product Development, Blackboard (8 MB)
• Accessible Design: A Model for the Future
  Steve Eastman, President, Target.com (14 MB)
• Location-based Services Using Bus Stop and Geocoded Media Content
  Mike May, Chief Executive Officer, Sendero Group (11 MB)
• Blind Car Builder? We’re Here to Tell You!
  Marcus Simmons, Chief Executive Officer, Simmons BOSS CREATIONS (18 MB)
• Copyright and the Right to Read
  Marybeth Peters, Esq., Register of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Copyright Office (15 MB)
• The Future of Books and Beyond
  Ray Kurzweil, President and Chief Executive Officer, K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc. (17 MB)
• Calling All Drivers: Advancing Leadership, Collective Action, and the Boundaries of Independence
  Mark Riccobono, Executive Director, National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute (24 MB)
• The Interface That Touches the Mind: Advancing Beyond Autonomous Vehicles
  Dennis Hong, Ph.D., Director, Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, Virginia Polytechnic Institute (14 MB)
• A Practicing Blind Physician
  Timothy Cordes M.D./Ph.D., Resident in Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics (15 MB)
• Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award
  Gary Wunder, Chairperson, Dr. Jacob Bolotin Award Committee, and Secretary, National Federation of the Blind (28 MB)
• Disability Policy from the White House
  Kareem Dale, Special Assistant to the President on Disability Policy (17 MB)
• Banquet Speech: The Advantage of Uncertainty
  Marc Maurer, President, National Federation of the Blind (61 MB)
• Banquet: Ray Kurzweil (5 MB)
• Banquet: 2010 Jacobus tenBroek Award Presentation (11 MB)
• Banquet: 2010 Scholarship Awards Presentation (33 MB)

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• Banquet Speech: The Advantage of Uncertainty
  Marc Maurer, President, National Federation of the Blind (155 MB)

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Baltimore, Maryland (April 15, 2009): The National Federation of the Blind (NFB) will present the second Jacobus tenBroek Disability Law Symposium on April 17, 2009, at the NFB Jernigan Institute in Baltimore. The symposium, entitled “New Perspectives on Disability Law: Advancing the Right to Live in the World” and named for NFB founder and pioneering legal scholar Dr. Jacobus tenBroek (1911-1968), will gather public officials, legal scholars, and disability rights advocates for a full-day seminar on the state of disability law in the United States and the world and will discuss how disability rights may be advanced in the future. Kareem Dale, special assistant for disability policy to United States President Barack Obama, will make a presentation to the gathering. Mr. Dale will speak on the Obama administration’s policies on disability issues for approximately thirty minutes followed by a forty-five minute question and answer session.

“Our first Jacobus tenBroek symposium was a stunning success, and we are looking forward to once again hosting leading players and thinkers in the disability community,” said Dr. Marc Maurer, an attorney and President of the National Federation of the Blind. “Disability law is rapidly changing at the national and international level, and this forum will provide an opportunity for everyone to assess developments and plan strategies in this dynamic and critically important field.”

Other presenters at the 2009 symposium include Professor Gerard Quinn, National University of Ireland, Galway; Assistant Attorney General Maura Healey, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Professor Samuel Bagenstos, UCLA School of Law; and Professor Peter Blanck, Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University.

Dr. Jacobus tenBroek was a constitutional law scholar, a blind professor at Berkeley, and an author of treatises on the Fourteenth Amendment and social welfare. Dr. tenBroek created the concept that civil rights should apply to disabled Americans, and he published extensively on the application of the law to those with disabilities. His efforts to advance civil rights for the blind and others with disabilities included drafting the Model White Cane Law, which has had a profound influence on the development of civil rights laws for the disabled throughout the United States, and publishing authoritative articles like “The Right to Live in the World: The Disabled in the Law of Torts.”