2008 Annual Meeting, Washington DC

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Plenary Sessions

Are Genes Destiny?
We Are all Mutants: We Had Better Hope That We Are More Thank Our Genes
Alan Guttmacher, MD
Living a Real Life
Personal and Political Life in the Community
The New Professional
New Wine, New Wineskins: The Journey to a New (and Very Old) Professionalism
David Leach, MD
It's a New World
Inclusion Around the World - Progress and Challenges
Diane Richler
Mapping the Future Course of Disability Policy
Robert M. Gettings, Former Executive Director of the National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services (NASDDDS)

Special Theme Sessions

Ethical Issues for People with Intellectual Disabilities Bioethics and People with Clinical Genetics
Leigh Ann Kingsberry-Gerontology
Gurit Lotan-Psychology, Bioethics
Matthew Taylor-Medical Genetics
Participatory Action Research with Disabled Adults: Advancing Scientifically Sound, Socially Relevant, Ethical Research
Katherine McDonald, PhD Portland State University
Dora Raymaker Portland State University
Scott Robertson Autistic Self-Advocacy Network
Christina Nicolaidis, MD, MPH Oregon Health & Science University
Quality of Life and Environmental Health-What's the Connection?
Laura Abulafia, AAIDD Environmental Health Initiative
Elise Miller, Institute for Children's Environmental Health
Steven Gilbert, PhD, Institute of Neurotoxicology and Neurological Disorders
Ted Schettler, MD, Science and Environmental Health Network
Joe Meadours, Environmental Health Initiative
Relationships and Community Membership: The Opposite of Isolation
Angela Novak Amado, PhD, University of Minnesota
Relationships and Community Membership - The Opposite of Isolation
Nitasha M. Clark, University of New Mexico
Relationships and Community Membership: Community and Relationships
Julie Petty, Self Advocates Becoming Empowered
Research, Data, Technology and the Future
Steven Eidelman, University of Delaware
Using SIS to Support Individualized Planning and Community Inclusion
Stephen Greenspan, PhD, University of Colorado
Charles Moseley, EdD, National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disabilities Services
James Thompson, PhD, Illinois State University
Marc Tassé, PhD, University of South Florida