Year Place Held Attendance
1952 Bussum, The
Netherlands
200
Theme:
"The Needs of Blind Youth in Education"
1957 Oslo, Norway 237+
1962 Hanover, Germany
280 (approx.)
Theme:
"The Development of International Co-operation
To meet
Educational Needs in Emergent Countries and
the Means by
Which These Needs Can Be Best Met"
1967 Watertown, Mass.
USA
277
Theme:
"Latest Techniques of Teaching Certain Subjects"
1972 Madrid, Spain
487
Theme:
"New Subjects, New Methods and New Pupils
in the
Education of the Visually Handicapped"
1977 Paris, France
552
Theme:
"Adapting Programs to Meet Individual
Differences
of Visually Handicapped Children and Youth"
1982 Nairobi, Kenya
Theme:
"Bridges from Here to There"
Note: This
conference did not fully take place but the
proceedings
were published and included were
papers that
were or would have been given.
1987 Würzburg,
Germany
479
Theme:
"Learning to live"
1992 Bangkok, Thailand
540+
Theme:
"Working Together in the Decade of the 90s:
Strategies to
Advance Equal Opportunities for
Children and
Youth with Visual Handicaps"
1997 São Paulo,
Brazil
657
Theme:
"Stepping Forward Together: Families and
Professionals
as Partners in Achieving Education for All"
Note: Proceedings from all the international conferences, except the 1997 in São Paulo, Brazil, have been published in print. The 1997 proceedings are available on disk and can also be read on the ICEVI website.