Title: Webinar 1: The Friendships of Young People with Disabilities
Date: Thursday, 3 December 2020
Time: 16.00 - 18.00 (CET)
Link: Zoom
The first webinar, in the Webinar Series In search of community inclusion: young people with disabilities and relationships, organised by the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disability, the Department of Disability Studies, Faculty for Social Wellbeing, University of Malta and the Opening Doors Association, Malta, will be held on Thursday 3 December, 2020, from 16:00 to 18:00.
Thursday 3 December marks the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
This webinar series considers the importance for young people with disabilities to foster different types of relationships as a way of achieving community inclusion. The focus is on youth since this is the phase in life when establishing lasting connections with people outside the family – by fostering friendships and other kind of relationships – is particularly important.
Founding friendships is an important – but often overlooked – way of ensuring that people with disabilities participate in their communities on an equal basis with others. In the first in four webinars, we discuss the friendships of young people with disabilities, what opportunities they have to make friends and to nurture relationships with their friends, and what factors act as barriers to friendship.
Programme
16:05
Opening speeches
Dr Claire Azzopardi-Lane, Head of Department of Disability Studies
Ms Ilona Baldacchino, Artistic Director of Opening Doors
16:15
Address, Hon. Julia Farrugia Portelli, Minister for Inclusion and Social Wellbeing
16:25
Address, Hon. Dr Maria Deguara, Opposition spokesperson for Active Ageing and Inclusive and Persons with Disability
16:35
Video of Dance Performance by Opening Doors
16:40
Keynote speech,
Dr Gemma Garolera Diaz, University of Girona, Catalunya, Spain
17:00
Video of Theatre Performance by Opening Doors
17:05
Plenary Discussion
Moderator: Mr Toni Attard
17:45
Concluding speeches
Prof. Jo Butterworth, President of Opening Doors
Mr Oliver Scicluna, Commissioner for the Rights of Persons with Disability
18:00
End
Further details about the other 3 webinars, planned for January, February and March will be available later.