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Entry from 14.05.2012
News from the Editor
During the last months ISaR International has taken a huge step forward. There were two meetings where ISaR International was discussed and presented, one at a special even at the Technical University in Dortmund, Germany and another at the 140th anniversary of the school for the visually impaired in Riga, Latvia. During both occasions we got in contact with professionals taking a keen interest in ISaR. We have now been provided with useful new links and been promised materials for our Didactic Pool.
We furthermore solved a technical problem and can now place interesting education links under this heading as well. This is important as we cannot ‘double’ links from an institution and a link within this institution. The first one will be Paths to Literacy, a joint venture by Texas and Perkins schools for the blind. Please look it up at:
http://www.pathstoliteracy.org
Ever since starting ISaR International we have been hoping to get useful pedagogical information on cerebral visual impairment (CVI) In our last news we told you about Lea Hyvärinen’s and Namita Jacob’s new book. Now we have more good news as we have received materials from Dr Gordon Dutton and Richard and Ruth Bowman i.e. a book to be downloaded. Please enjoy them!
But we do still, of course, ask for your own contributions!
Sight City Frankfurt May 23rd-25th, 2012
Entry from 30.03.2012
Germany’s biggest exhibition for aids for the blind and the visually impaired.
Manufacturers from all over the world present their product range in the field of specialized aids for the blind and the visually impaired.
A forum for those who are affected and interested in information and discussions is part of the program.
6th ICEVI Balkan Conference, Cluj Napoca (Romania)
Entry from 15.02.2012
The conference will take place June 27th-29th,
The conference is organised by the Special Education Department, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at "Babes-Bolyai" University in Cluj Napoca in partnership with the Romanian Association for the Blind (Cluj-Napoca branch) and the High School for the Visually Impaired in Cluj-Napoca.
The title of the conference is “New Developments in Educational Policies, Research and Practices in Visual Impairment".
The conference aims at promoting the collaboration and the sharing of practices between the professionals involved in the field of visual impairment.
The main topics of the conference are the following:
• Educational Policies
• Inclusion
• Research
• Strategies in support of people with visual impairment
The participants (practitioners, researchers, policy makers) can choose between paper presentation, workshop and/ or poster.
The language of the conference is English. A book of abstracts will be available at the beginning of the conference.
13th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP)
Entry from 23.10.2011
The conference will take place July 11-13, 2012 at the University of Linz, Austria.
ICCHP is a forum for the discussion of issues regarding quality of life for people with special needs. Educational questions as well as mobility problems are part of their agenda.
The XXXV. Convention of Pedagogy for Blind and Visually Impaired 2012 in Chemnitz, Germany
Entry from 17.02.2012
30 July – 3 August 2012
Four Symposia covering the following areas are going to be available:
1.Inclusion – Development of Educational Institutions and Professionalism
2.(Multi-)Cultural Diversity of Learning Opportunities
3.Inclusive Living Environments of Adults with Multiple Disabilities
4.Specific Offers in Education and Rehabilitation
Graduate students, students, teacher trainees, graduates of other educational directions as well as individuals involved in research and international projects are invited to introduce their results resp. their research findings as a campus poster-presentation (Bachelor, Master, Diploma, Dissertation, other degrees) at the convention.
The 2012 convention opens up for international participants. Therefore the convention provides events simultaneously translated into English and German.
Flyer ISaR-International
Entry from 24.08.2009
ISaR is a web-based data bank and resource centre in the field of inclusive education and rehabilitation of children and young people with visual impairment.
This home page will continue the newest information in our field. We thus depend on close cooperation with you. Please send us information about your plans so that we can spread the information to everyone concerned.
The existing data base will be extended through cooperation with teachers, parents as well as students. Togetherness and networking, sharing the competences and resources are the key components in further development of the pedagogy for visual impairment.
To spread the information to your colleagues please use our flyer.
Here is the link to the flyer.
