The T&T National Policy on Persons with Disabilities: What Now? Where Now? Network and Outreach for Disability Education and Sensitization (NODES)
19th December 2019 Symposium
Place: UWI’s Centre for Language and Learning (CLL)
The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad
Category: News
NODES 19/Dec/2019 Symposium. Prof Paula Morgan Introduces Speakers. Senator Paul Richards 1st Speaker
The T&T National Policy on Persons with Disabilities: What Now? Where Now? Network and Outreach for Disability Education and Sensitization (NODES)
19th December 2019 Symposium
Place: UWI’s Centre for Language and Learning (CLL)
The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad
Dr Jean Antoine-Dunne NODES Founder “Towards Inclusion, Integration Of People With Disabilities”
Tuesday 24 December 2019 Jean Antoine – Dunne
Published by Trinidad and Tobago NEWSDAY
DR JEAN ANTOINE-DUNNE
ON DECEMBER 19 at the University of the West Indies, the Network for Outreach and Disability Education and Sensitisation (NODES) hosted a symposium that asked the question, What Now?… Read the rest “Dr Jean Antoine-Dunne NODES Founder “Towards Inclusion, Integration Of People With Disabilities””
Advocates: National Disability Legislation Needed
Friday 20 December 2019 Tyrell Gittens
Published by Trinidad and Tobago NEWSDAY
PROPER legislation needs to be implemented alongside the 2017 National Policy for Persons with Disabilities.… Read the rest “Advocates: National Disability Legislation Needed”
Mission Possible
Monday 16 July 2018 Jean Antoine – Dunne
Published by Trinidad and Tobago NEWSDAY
Quote:
‘There are now mechanisms in Trinidad and Tobago that allow people who are blind or visually impaired to uncover their true potential’
DR JEAN ANTOINE-DUNNE
THEY SAID it was the “power of love” and certainly few thought it was truly possible.… Read the rest “Mission Possible”
Valuing People With Down Syndrome
Monday 19th February 2018 Jean Antoine-Dunne
THE GENERAL Synod of the Church of England has voted unanimously on a motion put forward by the Bishop of Carlisle that people with Down syndrome should be valued.… Read the rest “Valuing People With Down Syndrome”
All Ah We Is Not One
Sunday 4 February 2018. Jean Antoine-Dunne
Published by Trinidad and Tobago NEWSDAY
“THE CAPACITY to live with difference” is the “coming question of the 21st century” said the late Jamaican cultural theorist and critic Stuart Hall in 1993.… Read the rest “All Ah We Is Not One”
Changing Attitudes About Disabilities
Sunday 21 January 2018. Jean Antoine-Dunne
Published by Trinidad and Tobago NEWSDAY
Recently I spoke to two disability advocates about the issues still surrounding those with disabilities in Trinidad.… Read the rest “Changing Attitudes About Disabilities”
A New Policy For People With Disabilities Part 2
Monday 21st November 2016 Jean Antoine-Dunne
Published by Trinidad and Tobago NEWSDAY
THE DRAFT policy document for people with disabilities uses the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) as a framing philosophy.… Read the rest “A New Policy For People With Disabilities Part 2”
A New Policy For People With Disabilities Part 1
Monday 14th November 2016 Jean Antoine-Dunne
Published by Trinidad and Tobago NEWSDAY
THE MINISTRY of Social Development and Family Services has distributed a draft document, which is set to replace the 2004 policy for people with disabilities.… Read the rest “A New Policy For People With Disabilities Part 1”