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Jonas Ruškus (born 11 May 1969 in Kelmė, Lithuania) is a full professor at the Department of Social Work at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. From 2007 to 2009 he was a Head of the Social Work School, from 2009 to 2010 - vice-rector for studies, and from 2010 to 2016 - Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences. He provides lectures on human rights and social diversity, human rights perspectives in social work, and the human rights disability model in bachelor, master, and PhD programs.

Jonas Ruškus had served as an expert member and vice-chair of the Committee on the Rights of Persons of Disabilities in the United Nations. He was elected for his first mandate by the UN General Assembly in 2015 and was re-elected for a second mandate in 2019, when elected by the Committee as vice chair. The CRPD is the UN treaty body of 18 independent experts, monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in the States Parties.

Jonas Ruškus is also a council member of the Lithuanian Human Rights Centre https://ztcentras.lt, a board member of Kaunas l'Arche Community https://www.kaunoarka.lt, and a member of the Lithuanian Association of Independent Living. He was awarded The Knight's Cross of the Order of Merit of Lithuania in 2019, by then President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė. Equality award by Office of the Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson, Lithuania, in 2023

Education

• 1987-1992 Teacher, educator and speech therapist for children with intellectual disabilities in special education school and preschool institutions. Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute, Lithuania
• 1993-1994 Communication and Safety, Third cycle diploma (D.E.A. Diplome d'Études Approfondies). Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France
• 1996-2000 PhD in social sciences (education). Thesis: Relation between attitudes of a special education teacher, pedagogical interaction and school socialisation. Šiauliai University, Lithuania
• 2007 Habilitation procedure. Thesis: Construction of social participation of people with disabilities and other social exclusion groups Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania

Publications

1. Gudelytė, U., Ruškus, J., & McCrea, K. T. (2024). “Help me to decide”: A study of human rights-based supported decision making with persons with intellectual disabilities. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 94(3), 297–310.
2. Ruškus, J. (2023). The Human Rights Model for Children with Disabilities. In: Beckett A.E. & Callus A.-M. (Ed. ). The Routledge International Handbook of Children Rights and Disability. Abingdon & New York: Routledge, pp. 17-36.
3. Ruškus, J. (2023). Transformative Justice for Elimination of Barriers to Access to Justice for Persons with Psychosocial or Intellectual Disabilities. Laws, 12(3), 51.
4. Ruškus J. (2022). Disastrous Exposure of Persons with Disabilities to Russian Aggression Against Ukraine. Human Rights Bulletin. International Journal on Social Justice and Human Rights. 2(2), p. 8-14
5. Naujanienė, R., Ruškus, J., Laitinen, M., Motiečienė, R., Eidukevičiūtė, J. (2021). Considering Family and Child Welfare in Lithuania in Terms of Social Sustainability Pursuant to Observations of Everyday Professional Practice, Sustainability, 13, 8751.
6. Kiaunytė A., Ruškus J., Telmentienė, R., Tyson McCrea, K. (2021). Even in Fateful Situations a Vital Optimism Remains: Social Work “Accompaniment” with Persons with Cancer. The Qualitative Report, 26(5), 1641-1662.
7. Ruškus J., Kiaunytė A., Zaturskis G. Juodkaitė D. (2020). On the Role Conflict of Social Workers in Lithuania Dealing with the Issue of Legal Capacity of Persons with Disabilities. Journal of Human Rights and Social Work, 5, 108-117.
8. Ruškus, J. (2020). Inclusive education as the turning point for the dignified life course of children with disabilities. In: Brown M.A. (Ed.) International Perspectives on Inclusion within Society and Education. London: Routledge, N° 10, pp. 117-130.

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