May 6 - 8, 2002
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Providing Culturally Competent Disability Services
to Persons Born in other Countries May 6 - 8, 2002 |
Foreign-born and first-generation consumers: How do we utilize disability services (Immigrant Consumer Panel)
Martinez, K. (Chair)
World Institute on Disability
Deputy Director
Oakland, CA 94612-1500 USA
kathy@wid.org
Panal: Peneda, J. (Mexican perspective); Hampton, N. Z. (Chinese perspective); Saba, E. (Egyptian perspective); Botelho, F. (Brazilian perspective)
Abstract
Consumers from a variety of cultural backgrounds will identify both problems and best practices through the presentation of their experiences with disability services in the U.S. Panelists will provide information about making services more c ulturally responsive, and present suggestions about developing cultural competence on a system-wide/organizational level.