Were there any meetings, workshops or seminars in the
Baltimore/Washington DC area regarding child development or childhood
disabilities in during the last two (2) weeks of October 2000?

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Request for Question Clarification by websearcher-ga on 08 Oct 2002 18:30 PDT

Hi samtheman:

I searched *extensively* for the information you requested, and was
only able to find the following meeting, which I seriously doubt is
what you're looking for:

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Event: October Meeting of the Anne Arundel County Chapter of the
Autism Society of America

Date: October 31, 2000

Location: Millersville, MD

Quote: "At our October 31 meeting, we will have a presentation by
Elaine Williams, a child development specialist in Autism and related
disorders.  Mrs. Williams is a Pediatric Psychology Associate at Mt.
Washington Pediatric Hospital for children with developmental
disorders, including Autism, as well as a Child Development Specialist
consultant for children with Autism and related disorders at Pueblo
Pediatric Therapy in Tucson.  She will be presenting to us 'Autism: 
Current Research Into Neurobiological Aspects and Educational
Interventions.'"
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Other than that, I could find no meetings, conferences, seminars, or
workshops on these subjects in these areas during that timeframe.

One issue about your question...If there indeed were no meetings
matching the criteria you supplied, how are we Researchers supposed to
prove it? What would be sufficient proof that there were no meetings?
It is tricky to "prove" the negative of this question.

Thanks for your help. 

websearcher-ga

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Clarification of Question by samtheman-ga on 09 Oct 2002 06:42 PDT

Dear Searcher...Great Job...so quickly done ....Let me broaden/clarify
the question:

Restating....Were there any meetings, workshops, seminars and/or
conferences dealing with Head Start, bilingual education, and/or
physical disabilities in children or adults that were held in the
Baltimore/WashingtonDC area during the last two (2) weeks of October
2000?

Hi samtheman: 
 
Thank you for your clarification. After some further strenuous
searching, I was able to find the following meetings that fit your
criteria.
 
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Event: Infant/Family Network Meeting
 
Date: October 30, 2000 
 
Location: Arlington, VA

Head Start Calendar of Events for 2000
http://www2.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb/announce/confrc.htm#oct
 
Quote: "Infant/Family Network Meeting, DoubleTree Hotel, National
Airport, Arlington, VA; Contact: Tecumseh Deloney, Early Head Start
National Resource Center at Zero to Three, 734 115th Street, N.W.,
Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005-1013; (202) 634-1144; Fax: (202)
638-1429; E-mail: T.deloney@zerotothree.org (Regional, Federal, Head
Start, Training)"
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Event: Wave 7 Orientation Conference

Date: October 31 - Nov. 2, 2000

Location: Arlington, VA

Head Start Calendar of Events for 2000
http://www2.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/hsb/announce/confrc.htm#oct

Quote: "Wave 7 Orientation Conference, DoubleTree Hotel, National
Airport, Arlington, VA; Contact: Tecumseh Deloney, Early Head Start
National Resource Center at Zero to Three, 734 15th Street, N.W.,
Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20005-1013; (202) 638-1144; Fax: (202)
634-1429; E-mail: T.deloney@zerotothree.org (Regional, Federal, Head
Start, Training)"
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Event: U.S. National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation
Research - Disability Studies: A Global Perspective

Date: October 17-18, 2000 

Location: Washington, D.C.

Disability World
http://www.disabilityworld.org/June-July2000/International/AutumnConf.htm

Disability Studies Conference 
http://www.conwal.com/conference/conference.html

Quote: "This two-day international event will examine and promote
Disability Studies, as an academic discipline gaining worldwide
recognition among influential organizations"
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Event: International disability rights law symposium - "From
Principles to Practice"

Date: October 22 - 26, 2000

Location: Washington, D.C.

Preliminary Outcomes and Recommendations
http://www.dredf.org/symposium/index.html

Quote: "More than forty nations have enacted some form of disability
anti-discrimination legislation in the past ten years, yet law and
policy experts and advocates internationally have had few
opportunities to come together to discuss legal theories,
implementation issues, and strategies for future reform. The symposium
provided such an opportunity."
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This is all I was able to find. I hope that this information is of
help to you.


Search Strategy:

Rather than list the dozens of unsuccessful searches that I did to
weed out this information, I'll just give you the searches that were
successful. (If you really want to know the other search strings, let
me know and I'll list them too.)

"head start" calendar 2000 
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=%22head+start%22+calendar+2000+

meeting "physical disabilities" october 2000 washington OR baltimore
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=meeting+%22physical+disabilities%22+october+2000+washington+OR+baltimore

seminar "physical disabilities" october 2000 washington OR baltimore
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=seminar+%22physical+disabilities%22+october+2000+washington+OR+baltimore


Thank you for using Google Answers.

websearcher-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by samtheman-ga on 09 Oct 2002 17:43 PDT

Thank you very much...your response was just what we were looking for.

One thing though... with all the info presented...Where, which hotel,
was the meeting held ?  "Intern'l Disabilities Rights Law Symposium,
Oct 22-26,2000"

Thanks again.

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Clarification of Answer by websearcher-ga on 10 Oct 2002 04:49 PDT

Hi samtheman:

Thanks for the 5-star rating!

The meeting: International disability rights law symposium - "From
Principles to Practice" was held at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in
Washington, D.C.

http://www.renaissancehotels.com/dpp/PropertyPage.asp?MarshaCode=WASSH&checked=True&Marriott_BD={4C1765E5-C4DF-4120-BF85-84ED3184F88D}

I figured this out by putting the room names found at: 

http://www.dredf.org/symposium/agenda.html

into Google with the search: 

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&safe=off&q=%22cabinet+room%22+%22grand+ballroom%22+%22east+room%22+%22state+room%22

and then checking out the other meetings that came up. :-)

Hope this helps. 

websearcher-ga