Subhash Chandra Vashishth
Awareness Workshop on Disability Equity & Physical Accessibility (flyer)
BIO : Subhash Chandra Vashishth is Specialist-Accessibility in Built
Environment & Transportation and lawyer working on disability justice.
He is Director with Svayam - Global Centre for Inclusive Environment.
Svayam promotes accessibility as a human right for dignity of people
with reduced mobility in India and beyond through its international
outreach programs. Subhash is also a Member of the Standing Committee on
Accessible Transportation and Mobility (ABE 60) of Transportation
Research Board, USA. He is also the Secretary General at the Permanent
Secretariat of TRANSED Series of Triennial international conferences
run by Svayam, under the aegis of TRB, USA.
Affiliation : Svayam - Global Centre for Inclusive Environment (an
initiative of the Sminu Jindal Charitable Trust), New Delhi, India
Abstract
The workshop aims to orient participants about understanding disability
in social context, disability equity and etiquettes, right terminologies
to use, what is accessibility, the legal and policy framework & how can
we make our environment physically accessible and safe. The workshop
will see Role plays, orientation short films, experience sharing and
interaction with the participants to bring home the concepts on
inclusion and inclusive practices.