Keystone Institute India

In today's rapidly evolving work landscape, the significance of fostering diversity and inclusion cannot be overstated. One critical facet of this inclusivity is the employment of people with disabilities. Through sharing our experiences in this endeavor, we aim to break down barriers, raise awareness, and inspire change.

The college or university years for any young person is a powerful time of seasoning, maturation, growth, and networking, serving as a bridge to a successful career and productive life. Across the world, students with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been excluded from higher education and often from mainstream, typical schools. Dr. Thomas Neuville will discuss the program's founding, successful inclusive education principles, adapting materials, credentials, testing, overcoming faculty resistance, and working with students and families.

Social Role Valorization (SRV) is a powerful set of ideas about assisting people to have full, rich, meaningful lives. SRV provides a high-order framework for understanding our society and the place people with disabilities tend to hold within it. SRV thinking is also accompanied by very practical implementation strategies to help people with disabilities have access to the good things in life. This overview event will present the idea of assisting people with disabilities and other devalued conditions to have positive social roles as a productive and helpful response to wounding life experiences.

Across India, change leaders committed to better lives for people with developmental and psychosocial disability are talking and learning about Social Role Valorization (SRV), a powerful set of ideas about how to assist people to have full, rich, meaningful lives. SRV provides a high-order framework for understanding the society in which we live, and the place people with disabilities tend to hold within in. As well, SRV thinking is accompanied by very practical implementation strategies to help people with disabilities have access to the good things of life. Please join us as we introduce participants to the basics of Social Role Valorization.

Imitation is one of the most powerful learning and teaching tools that we have, and yet, we often fail to use its potential to teach positive and adaptive competencies and behaviors. When we hear the word imitation, we generally think of a relatively simple process of seeing something and then copying it – and indeed, imitation is one of the most primitive learning modes of all.

Mindsets are powerful shapers of action. Our mindsets govern what we see, what we perceive, and how we respond to the world around us and the people we encounter. Intended for those with some exposure to Social Role Valorization (SRV), this workshop will examine the power of mindsets, and the sorts of strategies that might help shift the thinking of others around disability, and people with disabilities.