Hi All,
There has been quite a bit of criticism of disability's role at the Diversity Conference, from people who were not actually there.
Some of what was done for the recent Diversity in Philosophy conference held at University of Dayton and co-sponsored by the APA included:
- Consulting, from the outset, with a member of the APA inclusiveness committee familiar with and working on disability issues.
- Inviting, from the outset, a disabled philosopher to arrange a panel on disability and advertising this invited panel from the outset.
- Making it clear in the original call for abstracts that disability was one of the topics about which an abstract could be submitted.
- Arranging for American Sign Language interpreting for every session of the conference, breaks, and the banquet where such interpreting was needed.
- Arranging for wheel-chair accessible transportation between room accommodations and the conference location.
- Asking about accommodation needs of any sort as part of online registration and then making every requested accommodation.