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 Dr. Innette Cambridge has
been a Lecturer in the Social Work Unit, Department of Behavioural
Sciences, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine,
Trinidad and Tobago since 1990. She serves as Co-ordinator
of the Social Policy Programme, which initiated Disability Studies at the university. Dr.
Cambridge received her Ph.D. from the University of Bristol, England, a Masters
degree from the University of Paris, France and a Bachelor's degree from Minnesota
State University, Moorhead, U.S.A. Her publications concern vulnerable
groups such as children, household studies and social work education.
 Ms. Maria D. Thomas is
an Educator. She
has taught for more than thirty-five (35) years at the elementary
school level. Seventeen (17) of these years were spent teaching
regular students, and the others were spent in the area of
special education. She was the former Principal of
the Princess Elizabeth School for the Physically Handicapped
and has been serving as School Supervisor I in the Student
Support Services Division of the Ministry of Education. Ms.
Thomas holds a Master of Education in the area of special
education and has represented the country locally and internationally
in activities related to disability. She is a Lecturer
in Disability Studies at The University of the West Indies.
 Ms. Jacqueline Huggins is a Research Assistant in the area
of Disability Studies in the Department of Behavioural Sciences,
Faculty of Social Sciences at The University of the West
Indies, St. Augustine. She has also tutored the
Social Disability Class at the University for the past two
years. Ms. Huggins is the holder of a Masters
degree in Sociology and a Bachelors degree in Social Work,
which she earned at the University of The West Indies St.
Augustine. She has been a volunteer and Consultant
with organizations for persons with disabilities for the
past fifteen years during which time she has conducted a
number of research projects dealing with Disability issues. Subsequent
to completing her M.Sc. Degree her Research project entitled, “The
Status of Women with Disabilities in Trinidad and Tobago”,
was published in Women, Disability and Identity” (Hans,
A and Annie Patri eds. New Delhi, Thousand Oaks, London:
Sage Publication). Her other areas of research are
gender issues and poverty.
Mrs. Teresina Sieunarine, Tutor
Parent of three, one son has autism. President of the Autistic
Society of Trinidad and Tobago, the only national parent
support group dedicated to families who have a child/young
person with autism. As a volunteer she helps increase awareness
of autism by talking to groups, the media, writing articles
locally, internationally and online. She helps organize training
workshops for parents who have a child with this life long
complex developmental disability. She helped in the production
of the only local autism awareness DVD. She was a former
secondary school teacher in Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados.
She was a part-time tutor and laboratory demonstrator, at
UWI. She is the former principal of the community-based Kiwanis
Club of Piarco Educational Centre of St. Helena Village.
She has a Masters degree in Education (UWI, St. Augustine),
advanced diploma in Education and Psychology of children
with special educational needs, (University of London), Diploma
in Education, (UWI, Mona) and B.Sc, (UWI, St. Augustine).
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