Ann Turnbull

Dr. Ann Turnbull is the Beach Distinguished Professor of Special Education and co-founder/co-director of the Beach Center on Disability at the University of Kansas. She has received the highest awards from the University of Kansas for graduate teaching, as well as for research. She has authored 33 books and over 250 articles and chapters. She was selected as one of 36 individuals who “changed the course of history” for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the 20th century. She has provided leadership in national professional and family organizations, including being the President of the American Association on Intellectual Disability. Her greatest learning has come from her son, Jay Turnbull who she always calls her “best professor”, about the needs of individuals with significant disabilities over the lifespan.

Rud Turnbull

Rud Turnbull is the Beach Distinguished Professor of Special Education and co-founder/co-director of the Beach Center on Disability at the University of Kansas. He has served as chairman of the board of trustees of the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law; President, American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities; and Chairman, American Bar Association Commission on Disability Law. He received recognition as one of 36 people who “changed the course of history” for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the 20th Century. He is the father of Jay Turnbull who had an intellectual disability, autism, and an emotional disorder, and who died at the age of 41.

Morning session:

Afternoon session:

Thematic panel work group meeting and guided tour of UCSB campus (e.g., Koegel

Autism Center and McEnroe Reading Clinic)

Pacific Rim consortium collaborative research planning meeting

9:00 - 9:30 am

9:30 - 10:45 am

10:45 - 11:00 am

11:00 - 12:15 am

12:15 - 1:30 pm

Conference Opening Ceremony (Welcome from Santa Barbara Mayor and UCSB chancellor)

Plenary session (Keynote by Ann and Rud Turnbull)

Break

Concurrent paper presentation sessions

Lunch Break

1:30 - 3:00 pm

3:00 - 3:15 pm

3:15 - 5:00 pm

Concurrent paper presentation sessions

Break

Concurrent paper presentation sessions

9:00 - 10:00 am

10:00 - 10:10 am

10:10 - 11:10 am

11:10 - 11:15 am

11:15 - 12:15 pm

12:15 - 1:45 pm

Pac Rim Panel on Inclusion (by invited panelists)

Break

Pac Rim Panel on Early Identification (by invited panelists)

Break

Pac Rim Panel on Family Support (by invited panelists)

Lunch Break

1:45 - 3:00 pm

3:00 - 3:15 pm

3:15 - 4:45 pm

5:00 - 6:00 pm

UC SPEDR Research Center Faculty Panel

Break

UC SPEDR Research Center Faculty Panel

Poster presentation sessions