Present - see sign up list
APOLOGIES: Phil McCallion
Chair - Chris Bigby

1. Approval of agenda
Approved
2. Approval of minutes - to be carried forward to 2008

3. Officer's reports:
3a.Chairperson's Report
See circulated
3b. Secretary's report
Appointment of membership officer
Role of website
3c. Treasurer's report
The holder of this role was changed following election from Dawn Torres-Mughal to Phil McCallion.
Two signatures required so Phil Davidson is second signature. Bank account remains the same.
Transfer of treasury - discrepancy of $148
Refer to appendix
Balance of $3760.99
Bank account states additional $148 and we will update this amount and accept as our final. It was suggested that we include a footnote in the accounts to explain the discrepancy.
Motion - approved unaudited balance sheet
Proposed: Arthur Dalton
Seconded: Kathy Service
PASSED
If you have centre membership you can not then also be a SIRG member. Comment from IASSID treasurer - Research centres are a member of IASSID but one person has to be declared a designated member and can belong to a SIRG. R centre is also eligible to declare up to 5 people to be eligible for IASSID discounts so long as they are registered and paid for at the same time.

3d. Proposed budget:
(see attached - pdf file)
Possible additional income from IASSID if we are aggressive in our membership recruitment.
Motion to accept
Proposed: Maria Van Laake
Seconded: Tamar Heller
PASSED

3e. IASSID Representatives report
South Africa Program Committee
Each SIRG will be expected to agree to organize symposia, vet them ,send abstracts etc.
Number of program slots is open - as many as we can generate.

Committee: Chris Bigby, Maria Van Laake, Meindert Haveman, Nancy Jonkein.
This committee will now meet and discuss the way forward.
There will be an open call for both papers and symposia - then this will be coordinated and added to if required by the committee.
Submission: 1. either to send them direct to committee or 2. to send them to the overall IASSID call and these will be sent to us.
Overall theme for the conference is to notified or check the web. Matt will also send out to the whole IASSID membership as available.

Suggestions for plenary speakers:
Vee Prasher
Tamar Heller
Check with National Institute for Neuroscience - in Bangalore - Raghu will follow up.
Prof Alan Newall - Dundee, Queen Eliz Centre. PLEASE SEND ANY SUGGESTIONS TO CHRIS BIGBY OR PHIL DAVIDSON.

Meindert suggests a 'state of science' activity in preparation for the Cape Town meeting - to have this as a major topic. This will be included in the work of the program committee.

IASSID draft report
Produced by David Felce - vision of IASSID moving to a membership organization.
Exec have approved in principle and a working group drawing 1 rep from the 9 existing SIRGS to consider and report on the future of SIRGS. Chaired by Henny.
Please read and report back to Chris Bigby and/or Phil Davidson.
Appendix 3 is only one suggestion - nothing fixed in this report - it is currently a concept paper.
ACTION: for all to read and comment

Website
There is going to be a change in the web methodology used to drive the website - no firm date on this as yet.

3f . Newsletter report (by Dawna)
Deadline for the next is JULY 1st 07 - please send contributions to Dawna by then and in word format.
Comment from floor that this was a good newsletter. Thanks to Dawna from the group.
Next newsletter will have a summary from the chair of each session and printed in the next newsletter. Chairs to ensure that this is with Dawna by the deadline!!!
The aim will be to have 4 newsletters each year.
Matt suggested that it move to a webbased format for the newsletter - Dawna to explore this suggestion.

3g Membership report
Asking for suggestions to increase the membership - please email to Sunny Kalsy before July 1st.
Use of listserve - do we need to do this?
We need everyone to advertise especially outside the sector
Action: a message to be sent out by sunny via the listserve
Recruitment is essential - please everyone try!!!!

4. New business
4a. Roundtable abstracts - to be submitted to JPPID
Heather Wilkinson and Frode Larsen to send email out to everyone and deadline of end of June to return back - then will be checked and edited then submitted to JPPID
4b. Site for 2009:
Singapore regional meeting - coordinate with this??? Proposal from Lynette Lee - June 09
India March 12 - 14th proposed by Ryo
2010 - European IASSID regional meeting is Rome?
We need formal proposals to the Exec of SIRG by July 1st.
ACTION: Submit proposals to host SIRG 09 to Heather, Chris or Phil by JULY 1st 07
4c. Elections 2008:
These will now be matched to the overall IASSID exec timetable. We need new committee by the IASSID meeting and the new people will take position
Phil D will be stepping down for 2008 - we propose that he is nominated to manage the election process.
Sue Baladin to be second member.
Exec proposes that Maria as the third at large member should have a portfolio - to chair program committees.
PASSED
4d. Awards:
We are looking for nominations for the research award and for the student awards. Chris Bigby coordinates this process and Art Dalton will support this process. We need to include an active call to Africa as part of this honour process.
Matt Janicki and Meindert Haveman will be the committee to decide on the research award.
4e.. social events
Raghu will organize the social event.

General invitation to IASSID S America congress in Santiago.

The following reports can be downloaded.

Summative Report

Healthy Ageing - Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Physical Health Issues. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.

Healthy Ageing - Adults with Intellectual Disabilities
Women's Health and Related Issues

Healthy Ageing - Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Biobehavioral Issues. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization

Healthy Ageing - Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: Ageing & Social Policy. Geneva: Switzerland: World Health Organization.