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> Panel: "Reality Check: Choices for Deaf People"
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> When:
> Wednesday 21 October 2009
> 6-8pm

> Where:
> Parliament House
> Macquarie Street
> Sydney, 2000
> (Meet in the Theatrette)

> Who:
> The discussion will be led by an experienced facilitator

> Panel:
> 1.    Professor Greg Leigh – Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind
> Children
> 2.    Leonie Jackson – Teacher, Thomas Pattison School
> 3.    Robert Nock – School Counsellor
> 4.    Chevoy Sweeney – parent of deaf child
> 5.    Kate Locke – deaf person with a cochlear implant
> 6.    Hon Verity Firth, Minister for Education and Training (Member
> for Balmain)
> 7.    Hon Paul Lynch, Minister for Disability Services, Minister for
> Ageing, and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Member for Liverpool)
> 8.    Mr Adrian Piccoli, Shadow Minister for Education, Skills and
> Youth Affairs Member for Murrumbidgee
> 9.    Sharan Westcott – Sydney Cochlear Implant Centre

> Areas to focus on:
> 1.    Access Choices
> 2.    Early Choices
> 3.    Educational Choices/Work Choices

> Structure:
> 6.00-6.30 – Supper/handout of panel bios
> 6.30 – Welcome by Helen Westwood MLC. Introduction of Todd Wright.
> 6.35 – Todd Wright welcomes the panel, interruptions allowed from
> members of the panel or they can respond to a point raised, audience
> members to write their questions down and pass up to Kate Nelson, Kate
> Kennedy and Sheena Walters who will be in the audience. They will be
> answered at the end of the panel questions.
> 6.45 – Access Choices.
> 7.05 – Early Choices.
> 7.25 – Educational Choices/Work Choices
> 7.45 – Questions from the audience
> 7.55 – Wrap up
> 8.00 - Finish
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