We are excited to announce that the first issue of Let’s FaCE it! (Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2010) is now available The newsletter is published by FaCE (Facilitating Communication for Everybody), a group of students with speech and learning disabilities from Durham Trinity School in the UK. The focus of the group is art, multimedia and AAC & Literacy. Recent projects include the video, The Language Stealers  available on YouTube.

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The Language Stealers: A Story of Attribution  is an excellent video produced as part of the Radiowaves Street Life Project, funded by Youth in Action for the British Council. The Language Stealers was created by Michael Brian Reed, Andrew Murray, Gemma Coils and Robert McNicholas of FaCE Group, with animator Vivien Peach. It was posted on YouTube on March 10, 2010, and a sequel titled, The Language Givers, will be available online soon.

 

Sharif-Al-Mamun received the Shirley McNaughton Exemplary/ISAAC Award in 2008.  In June 2009, Sharif received a Bachelor of Science in Speech & Language Therapy (SLT) at the Bangladesh Health Professions Institute, the academic arm of the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), an affiliate of the University of Dhaka. Sharif’s internship within the first graduating class of the SLT bachelor program in Bangladesh will finish mid- 2010. Sharif has written this report from Dhaka.

Augmentative Communication Community Partnerships Canada (ACCPC) with a funding contribution from Justice Canada, has expanded its existing online resources for professionals working with the justice sector. These resources have been developed by Barbara Collier, Pamela Cross and Fran Odette and are available on the ACCPC website.

The Review of Disability Studies Journal housed at the Center of Disability Studies, University of Hawaii and Editor, Dr. Megan A Conway, will be publishing a special issue in the fall of 2010 focused on “The Impact of Gender on the Disability Experience.”

 

  

Canada, home base for the ISAAC Secretariat, announced our country’s ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on March 11, 2010.