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Kazuhiko Amano

Reference number: 3673
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Kazuhiko Amano, Yasuko Koda
Paper title: Rhönrad in physical education class - its possibility as a sports event for the visually impaired.

Reference number: 3580
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Hisayuki Ishida, Kazuhiko Amano
Paper title: Interstroke intervals during continuous typing of visually impaired college students.

Inger Lindgren Andersson

Reference number: 3429
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Birgit Kruk, Inger Lindgren Andersson
Paper title: What´s that noise? How do we use sound when teaching pupils with visual impairments?

Le Thi Hien Anh

Reference number: 3845
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Change in Community
Author(s): Le Thi Hien Anh
Paper title: Why an early intervention is needed in Vietnam.

Sonia Maria Chadi de Paula Arruda

Reference number: 3696
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Sonia Maria Chadi de Paula Arruda
Paper title: Home and School: Facilitating the inclusion of visually impaired children.

Reference number: 3697
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Sonia Maria Chadi de Paula Arruda
Paper title: Disclosing the action: Activities of daily living and the blind child.

Chris Arter

Reference number: 3698
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Mike McLinden, Graeme Douglas, Steve McCall, Chris Arter
Paper title: Developing effective practice in the use of LVAs by children who have multiple disabilities and visual impairment in the United Kingdom.

Sari Aulilo

Reference number: 3605
Focus area: Transition
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Sari Aulilo
Paper title: Steps to Independence and Employment - the Arla Institute's vocational rehabilitation model for multi-disabled visually impaired young adults.

Bahram Jadidi

Reference number: 3695
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Bahram Jadidi, Zahra Shahi
Paper title: Adapted basketball for the blind.

Xu Bailun Tian Yongan

Reference number: 3406
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Xu Bailun Tian Yongan
Paper title: Challenges in popularising inclusive education in Inner Mongolia and some solutions.

Uladzimir Baturo

Reference number: 3716
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Change in Community
Author(s): Uladzimir Baturo
Paper title: The Voluntary Organization of Visually Impaired Youth (Vovhy) as a factor of their social adaptation and integration.

Tula Baxter

Reference number: 3745
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Tula Baxter
Paper title: Ordinary parents can achieve extra-ordinary things.

Rod Beattie

Reference number: 3410
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Mike Steer, Rod Beattie
Paper title: Vision impairment service provider agencies: The manifest and latent-function paradox.

Annie Behiels

Reference number: 3610
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Families
Author(s): Annie Behiels
Paper title: Home guidance for school-aged children and their families.

Judy Bell

Reference number: 3425
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Judy Bell
Paper title: Developing enhanced school provision for pupils with MDVI through partnership between RNIB and statutory agencies.

Natalia Belykova

Reference number: 3775
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Natalia Belykova
Paper title: The Braille system in the 21st century.

Alberto Jorge Betinjane

Reference number: 3637
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad, Marcos Wilson Sampaio, Ernst Oltrogge, Alberto Jorge Betinjane, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: The use of optical devices in school-age children with low vision due to congenital glaucoma.

Paul Blenkhorn

Reference number: 3465
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Paul Blenkhorn, Gareth Evans
Paper title: Computer support for the development of listening skills by children with profound and multiple disabilities.

Reference number: 3467
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Paul Blenkhorn, Gareth Evans
Paper title: Tools for the production of preferred format material from Microsoft Word.

Nienke Boonstra

Reference number: 3689
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Roelof Schellingerhout, Nienke Boonstra
Paper title: Low vision aids for young visually impaired children.

Tove Gulliksen Borch

Reference number: 3657
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Tove Gulliksen Borch
Paper title: The use of different strategies to compensate for difficulties in recognition of people for a child with CP and Cerebral Visual Impairment (CVI).

Michael Brambring

Reference number: 3854
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Birgit Spohn, Michael Brambring
Paper title: Development from infancy to late childhood in children who are blind. A follow up to the Bielefeld Longitudinal Study.

Sytske Brandenburg

Reference number: 3730
Focus area: Transition
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Sytske Brandenburg
Paper title: Self-determination as process and outcome in the transition from special school to society.

Knut Brandsborg

Reference number: 3656
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Knut Brandsborg
Paper title: Blindness and autism: What is the relationship between blindness and autism-like difficulties in children?

Bruno Marilda M.Garcia

Reference number: 3753
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Bruno Marilda M.Garcia
Paper title: The meaning of the visual impairment in daily life: Analysis of the representations of the family, students and teachers.

Reference number: respondent
Focus area: Early Intervention
Day: Monday
Keynote respondent: Bruno Marilda M.Garcia
Paper title: Respondent's paper by Bruno Marilda M.Garcia

Roman Brvar

Reference number: 3794
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Roman Brvar
Paper title: Geography in a different way.

Nanci Palomino Buleje

Reference number: 3764
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Carmen Rosa Rejas, Nanci Palomino Buleje
Paper title: Experiences of encouraging rural Andean children with visual impairment into their local community.

Marianna Buultjens

Reference number: 3523
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Joan Stead, Marianna Buultjens, Mary Dallas
Paper title: Promoting social inclusion of pupils with visual impairment in mainstream schools in Scotland.

Reference number: 3532
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Marianna Buultjens, Lea Hÿvarinen, Frank Laemers
Paper title: A core curriculum for professionals working in early intervention with children with low vision and multi-disabilities.

Tatjana (Marjana) Çadri

Reference number: 3712
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Tatjana (Marjana) Çadri
Paper title: Integration of individuals with limited abilities need effective legal and humane support.

Mariana Calle de Sarabia

Reference number: 3623
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Mariana Calle de Sarabia
Paper title: The sensory-motor "Vivencias method" and the increase of the visual efficiency in children with low vision: A study of case histories.

Carmen Calvo-Novell

Reference number: 3786
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Carmen Calvo-Novell
Paper title: Coping and blindness: A study of the strategies of coping of blind and visually handicapped adolescents.

Maria Júlia Canazza Dall'Acqua

Reference number: 3969
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Maria Júlia Canazza Dall'Acqua
Paper title: Visual stimulation of a child with low vision in its pertaining to school environment: Inclusion possibilities.

Keila Miriam Monteiro Carvalho

Reference number: 3756
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Maria Elisabete Rodrigues Freire Gasparetto, Edméa Rita Temporini, Keila Miriam Monteiro Carvalho, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Head teacher's perception regarding the needs of teachers to work in inclusive education with low vision students.

Reference number: 3757
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Maria Elisabete Rodrigues Freire Gasparetto, Edméa Rita Temporini, Keila Miriam Monteiro Carvalho, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Inclusive education of the low vision student: Teachers' pedagogical conduct.

Elaine Chapman

Reference number: 3740
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Rosemary Flavel, Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Elaine Chapman
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: The effects of personal and family characteristics on the development of independence in 3 to 18 year olds.

Beula Christy

Reference number: 3744
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Beula Christy
Paper title: Technological impact - Meeting the educational needs of a low vision child.

Rory Cobb

Reference number: 3733
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Rory Cobb
Paper title: Assessing the academic attainment of children with visual impairment in public tests and examinations.

Reference number: 3734
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Rory Cobb
Paper title: The modification of examination questions for children with a visual impairment.

Tim Connell

Reference number: 3607
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Tim Connell
Paper title: From metal frames to micro-chips: The role of technology in early Braille literacy.

Brian Conway

Reference number: 3772
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Brian Conway, Michelle Knight
Paper title: Piecing together the technology puzzle.

Anne L. Corn

Reference number: 3759
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Change in Community
Author(s): Kathleen Mary Huebner, Karen Wolffe, Anne L. Corn, Susan J. Spungin
Paper title: A Grassroots Effort of Solidarity: A national agenda for the education of children and youth with visual impairments.

Rosaelvira Aliaga Cruz

Reference number: 3646
Focus area: Early Intrvention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Rosaelvira Aliaga Cruz
Paper title: Relational Psychomotor Function Workshop.

Roxana E. Cziker

Reference number: 3399
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Roxana E. Cziker
Paper title: Visual training methods for visually impaired children aged between 2 and 6 years

Mary Dallas

Reference number: 3523
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Joan Stead, Marianna Buultjens, Mary Dallas
Paper title: Promoting social inclusion of pupils with visual impairment in mainstream schools in Scotland.

Roseanna Davidson

Reference number: 3624
Focus area: Transition
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Constance Miles, Roseanna Davidson
Paper title: Successful transition of students with Usher Syndrome from school to work or continuing education.

Fátima Elisabeth Denari

Reference number: 3704
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): André Luis Elias, Fátima Elisabeth Denari
Paper title: The aquatic activity in the early intervention with blind children and with visual deficiency.

Kerstin Dominkoviæ

Reference number: 3597
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Kerstin Dominkoviæ, Kerstin Fellenius
Paper title: Reading aloud - the road to braille and tactile literacy.

Oriana Donoso Araya

Reference number: 3860
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Oriana Donoso Araya
Paper title: Study about the blind and visually impaired students of the UMCE (Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación, Santiago, Chile) enrolled between 1993 and 1999.
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Graeme Douglas

Reference number: 3698
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Mike McLinden, Graeme Douglas, Steve McCall, Chris Arter
Paper title: Developing effective practice in the use of LVAs by children who have multiple disabilities and visual impairment in the United Kingdom.

Doris Drave

Reference number: 3890
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Doris Drave
Paper title: Multi handicapped visually impaired children with severe psychiatric disturbances in daily school life.

Birgit Drolshagen

Reference number: 3837
Focus area: Transition
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Birgit Drolshagen, Birgit Rothenberg
Paper title: Creating a university without barriers: The example of the university of Dortmund.

Damijana Dusak

Reference number: 3793
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Damijana Dusak
Paper title: Children with special needs - blind and weak-sighted - can learn chemistry.

MajBritt Edlund

Reference number: 3674
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): MajBritt Edlund, Gerd Tobiason Jackson, Gunnar Lönngren
Paper title: Using sound to understand the environment and to be able to handle the surroundings for a person with severe visual impairment and autism.

Raewyn Edwards

Reference number: 3503
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Families
Author(s): Gwen Nagel, Lynda Williams, Raewyn Edwards, Karen Stobbs
Paper title: Voices for our children: Parents' perspectives of the IEP process.

Reference number: 3502
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Gwen Nagel, Karen Stobbs, Raewyn Edwards
Paper title: Pathways to participation: Collaborative approaches to vision education services.

Ida E. Ekkens

Reference number: 3518
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Ida E. Ekkens, Els Vervaart
Paper title: IN - SIGHT: An assessment procedure for higher levels of visual functioning in partially sighted children, six to twelve years of age, with normal learning capacities.

André Luis Elias

Reference number: 3704
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): André Luis Elias, Fátima Elisabeth Denari
Paper title: The aquatic activity in the early intervention with blind children and with visual deficiency.

Kjersti Engebrigtsen

Reference number: 3660
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Kjersti Engebrigtsen
Paper title: Liberating blind and visually impaired children through dance. The development of a method in special needs education.

Birgit Ericson

Reference number: 3858
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Birgit Ericson, Inga-Stina Fellers
Paper title: In what way will I read - Braille or print? Report from a study about reading media and the pupil's choice.

Cristina Espadinha

Reference number: 3838
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Cristina Espadinha, Leonor Moniz Pereira
Paper title: Requirements of a pedagogical software for the training of the visual function on people with low vision.

Gareth Evans

Reference number: 3465
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Paul Blenkhorn, Gareth Evans
Paper title: Computer support for the development of listening skills by children with profound and multiple disabilities.

Reference number: 3467
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Paul Blenkhorn, Gareth Evans
Paper title: Tools for the production of preferred format material from Microsoft Word.

Shirley Evans

Reference number: not available
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Shirley Evans
Paper title: E-learning - a level playing field?

Meagan Fairnham

Reference number: 3739
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Stephanie Kain, Natalie Kaine, Meagan Fairnham, Emma Steele, Anna McCauley
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: A flexible approach to teaching daily living skills to children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Kerstin Fellenius

Reference number: 3597
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Kerstin Dominkoviæ, Kerstin Fellenius
Paper title: Reading aloud - the road to braille and tactile literacy.

Inga-Stina Fellers

Reference number: 3858
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Birgit Ericson, Inga-Stina Fellers
Paper title: In what way will I read - Braille or print? Report from a study about reading media and the pupil's choice.

Melinda Ferenczy

Reference number: 3426
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Vasile L. Preda, Melinda Ferenczy, Laura E. Sendrea
Paper title: A cognitive approach to teaching-learning methods of Braille.

Rosemary Flavel

Reference number: 3740
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Rosemary Flavel, Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Elaine Chapman
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: The effects of personal and family characteristics on the development of independence in 3 to 18 year olds.

Reference number: 3739
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Stephanie Kain, Natalie Kaine, Meagan Fairnham, Emma Steele, Anna McCauley
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: A flexible approach to teaching daily living skills to children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Reference number: 3956
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: Meeting the challenge of intervention in urban and rural communities.

Reference number: 3741
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Helen Lunn
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: Levels of daily living skills and self-concept in children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Dolors Forteza Forteza

Reference number: 3630
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Dolors Forteza Forteza, Àngels Ramis Martí
Paper title: Self-concept and visual impairment.

Franck G.

Reference number: 3550
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Franck G.
Paper title: Professional network - a unique model in Sweden.
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Svetlana Gaidukevich

Reference number: 3751
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Svetlana Gaidukevich
Paper title: "I am in the world of social relations" is the supporting educational program for visually impaired pupils.

Nely Garcia

Reference number: 3635
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Edileine Vieira Machado, Nely Garcia
Paper title: Ludic space: An space of inclusion.

Reference number: 3627
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Edileine Vieira Machado, Nely Garcia, José Luiz Mazzaro
Paper title: Alternative pedagogic support for inclusive education.

Reference number: 3628
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Edileine Vieira Machado, Nely Garcia
Paper title: Vide braille i - educational software.

Maria Elisabete Rodrigues Freire Gasparetto

Reference number: 3756
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Maria Elisabete Rodrigues Freire Gasparetto, Edméa Rita Temporini, Keila Miriam Monteiro Carvalho, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Head teacher's perception regarding the needs of teachers to work in inclusive education with low vision students.

Reference number: 3757
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Maria Elisabete Rodrigues Freire Gasparetto, Edméa Rita Temporini, Keila Miriam Monteiro Carvalho, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Inclusive education of the low vision student: Teachers' pedagogical conduct.

Ligita Geida

Reference number: 3483
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Ligita Geida
Paper title: 130 years of education of visually impaired in Latvia: Way to inclusive education.

Corry J.van Gendt-van Evert

Reference number: 3661
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Professional Collaboration
Author(s): Ineke van Dijk, Marjon T. Vink, Corry J.van Gendt-van Evert
Paper title: Planning for the future: 25 years of early intervention and the road ahead of us.

Duane Geruschat

Reference number: 3760
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Laurel E. Leigh, Kathleen Mary Huebner, Audrey J. Smith, Duane Geruschat, Kerry J. Smith
Paper title: Access to visual learning options for students with severe low vision: Policy, practice and cost effectiveness - A preliminary report of a national study.

Deborah Gilden

Reference number: 3808
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Deborah Gilden
Paper title: How a "Blind" student learned to see computer displays by using features in Microsoft Office.

Luis González García

Reference number: 3789
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Luis González García
Paper title: Evaluation of the Braille reading comprehension.

Plácido González Paredes

Reference number: 3788
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Plácido González Paredes
Paper title: Integral plan of educational support for an eight year old visually handicapped student.

Vladimir Gordeiko

Reference number: 3738
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Vladimir Gordeiko
Paper title: The peculiarities of the spatial thinking in visually impaired children.

Mark Gray

Reference number: 3549
Focus area: Transition
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Mark Gray
Paper title: Zoning and Intensive Interaction Interface (A framework for improved communications techniques with people who have profound disabilities).

J.W.F. Grevink

Reference number: 3577
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): J.W.F. Grevink
Paper title: Expertise centres for visually impaired children in the Netherlands.

Nora Griffin-Shirley

Reference number: 3511
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Personnel Preparation
Author(s): Pat Kelley, Nora Griffin-Shirley, Alan Koenig, Pamela Broadston
Paper title: A study to determine the efficacy of internet delivery of classes in visual impairment: The new vision in distance education.

Vytautas Gudonis

Reference number: 3776
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Vytautas Gudonis
Paper title: The image of the blind people in the fiction.

Francis Guiteau

Reference number: 3873
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Catherine Thibault, Nataly Montaillé, Francis Guiteau
Paper title: The search for new methods of support in order to improve the lives of the visually impaired in their personal, professional and social environments.

Celene A. Gyles

Reference number: 3878
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Personnel Preparation
Author(s): Celene A. Gyles
Paper title: The education development and progress for students who are blind and visually impaired in the Commonwealth Caribbean Region.

Han Ping

Reference number: 3832
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Han Ping
Paper title: Development and application of Chinese computer for the blind.

Han Tie-Cheng

Reference number: 3403
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Han Tie-Cheng
Paper title: The theory of blind children's plastic arts.

Tarja Hännikäinen

Reference number: 3539
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Tarja Hännikäinen
Paper title: Temporary education courses for visually impaired pupils: A method supporting inclusion - the supportive role of the school for the visually impaired in Jyväskylä.

Phil Hatlen

Reference number: 3512
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Phil Hatlen
Paper title: The evolution of schools for the blind in the 21st century.

Marie Renee Hector

Reference number: 3542
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Joyce Nesker Simmons, Marie Renee Hector
Paper title: Education: A route to citizenship.

Toni Heinze

Reference number: 3578
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Personnel Preparation
Author(s): Gaylen Kapperman, Jodi Sticken, Toni Heinze
Paper title: The development of Braille tutorials for sighted and blind persons which operate on computers and the Braille Lite.

Heli Hietaharju-Mölsä

Reference number: 3464
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Heli Hietaharju-Mölsä
Paper title: Learning ability and self-esteem: How does the progressive neuro-degenerative disease (NCL) affect self-estimation and self-image.

Evelien Hoevenaars

Reference number: 3553
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Mathijs P.J. Vervloed, Evelien Hoevenaars, Anneke Maas
Paper title: Treatment of sleep problems in children with visual impairments.

Kathleen Mary Huebner

Reference number: 3759
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Change in Community
Author(s): Kathleen Mary Huebner, Karen Wolffe, Anne L. Corn, Susan J. Spungin
Paper title: A Grassroots Effort of Solidarity: A national agenda for the education of children and youth with visual impairments.

Reference number: 3760
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Laurel E. Leigh, Kathleen Mary Huebner, Audrey J. Smith, Duane Geruschat, Kerry J. Smith
Paper title: Access to visual learning options for students with severe low vision: Policy, practice and cost effectiveness - A preliminary report of a national study.

Reference number: 3761
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Personnel Preparation
Author(s): Kathleen Mary Huebner, Laurel E. Leigh
Paper title: Satellite O&M personnel preparation programs.

Antonina Adamowicz-Hummel

Reference number: 3866
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Antonina Adamowicz-Hummel, Anna Rozborska, Anne Yeadon
Paper title: Employability Enhancement Projects of AWARE Europe.

Lea Hÿvarinen

Reference number: 3532
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Marianna Buultjens, Lea Hÿvarinen, Frank Laemers
Paper title: A core curriculum for professionals working in early intervention with children with low vision and multi-disabilities.

Anette Ingsholt

Reference number: 3679
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Research
Author(s): Anette Ingsholt
Paper title: Joint Attention - a precursor of "theory of mind". A special phenomenon in blind children?

Reference number: 3680
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Anette Ingsholt
Paper title: Blindness, mental retardation and - or autism.

Hisayuki Ishida

Reference number: 3580
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Hisayuki Ishida, Kazuhiko Amano
Paper title: Interstroke intervals during continuous typing of visually impaired college students.

Gerd Tobiason Jackson

Reference number: 3674
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): MajBritt Edlund, Gerd Tobiason Jackson, Gunnar Lönngren
Paper title: Using sound to understand the environment and to be able to handle the surroundings for a person with severe visual impairment and autism.

Gertrude Jaritz-Tschinkel

Reference number: 3846
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Gertrude Jaritz-Tschinkel
Paper title: A deaf blind mentally handicapped child in a regular school career - does it make sense? A case study.

Christine Johnston

Reference number: 3740
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Rosemary Flavel, Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Elaine Chapman
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: The effects of personal and family characteristics on the development of independence in 3 to 18 year olds.

Reference number: 3741
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Helen Lunn
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: Levels of daily living skills and self-concept in children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Reference number: 3739
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Stephanie Kain, Natalie Kaine, Meagan Fairnham, Emma Steele, Anna McCauley
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: A flexible approach to teaching daily living skills to children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Reference number: 3956
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: Meeting the challenge of intervention in urban and rural communities.

Sandy A Joint

Reference number: 3732
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Sandy A Joint
Paper title: Body Signing: A new dimension of communication for students who are deafblind and/or multi-sensory impaired.

Rob Jones

Reference number: 3563
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Personnel Preparation
Author(s): Rob Jones
Paper title: Staff Development Opportunities as part of a Multilateral Education Project.

Isuwa J. Jurmang

Reference number: 3831
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Isuwa J. Jurmang
Paper title: The effect of Institutional Based Programmes in the education of the visually impaired children and youth in West Africa.

Romanas Kaffemanas

Reference number: 3519
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Irena Kaffemaniene, Romanas Kaffemanas
Paper title: The attitude to the integration of the visually impaired.

Irena Kaffemaniene

Reference number: 3519
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Irena Kaffemaniene, Romanas Kaffemanas
Paper title: The attitude to the integration of the visually impaired.

Stephanie Kain

Reference number: 3739
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Stephanie Kain, Natalie Kaine, Meagan Fairnham, Emma Steele, Anna McCauley
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: A flexible approach to teaching daily living skills to children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Natalie Kaine

Reference number: 3739
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Stephanie Kain, Natalie Kaine, Meagan Fairnham, Emma Steele, Anna McCauley
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: A flexible approach to teaching daily living skills to children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Gaylen Kapperman

Reference number: 3578
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Personnel Preparation
Author(s): Gaylen Kapperman, Jodi Sticken, Toni Heinze
Paper title: The development of Braille tutorials for sighted and blind persons which operate on computers and the Braille Lite.

Newton Kara-José

Reference number: 3636
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Marcos Wilson Sampaio, Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: School-age children with low vision: A multi-disciplinary approach and family reaction toward inclusion.

Reference number: 3756
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Maria Elisabete Rodrigues Freire Gasparetto, Edméa Rita Temporini, Keila Miriam Monteiro Carvalho, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Head teacher's perception regarding the needs of teachers to work in inclusive education with low vision students.

Reference number: 3757
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Maria Elisabete Rodrigues Freire Gasparetto, Edméa Rita Temporini, Keila Miriam Monteiro Carvalho, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Inclusive education of the low vision student: Teachers' pedagogical conduct.

Reference number: 3799
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Maria Ines Nobre, Edméa Rita Temporini, Rita de Cássia I. Montilha, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Identification of visually impaired children: Perception and mother's behavior.

Reference number: 3800
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Rita de Cassia Ietto Montilha, Edméa Rita Temporini, Maria Ines Rubo de Souza Nobre, Newton Kara José
Paper title: Inclusion of visually impaired students: Characteristics and perceptions of school students.

Hiroshi Katoh

Reference number: 3682
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Hiroshi Katoh
Paper title: Tactile graphics in Japanese university entrance examinations and their recognition by the blind.

Pat Kelley

Reference number: 3511
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Personnel Preparation
Author(s): Pat Kelley, Nora Griffin-Shirley, Alan Koenig, Pamela Broadston
Paper title: A study to determine the efficacy of internet delivery of classes in visual impairment: The new vision in distance education.

Michelle Knight

Reference number: 3772
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Brian Conway, Michelle Knight
Paper title: Piecing together the technology puzzle.

Martina Kobolkova

Reference number: 3965
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Branislav Mamojka, Martina Kobolkova
Paper title: Social inclusion through WEB accessibility.

Yasuko Koda

Reference number: 3673
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Kazuhiko Amano, Yasuko Koda
Paper title: Rhönrad in physical education class - its possibility as a sports event for the visually impaired.

Alan Koenig

Reference number: 3511
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Personnel Preparation
Author(s): Pat Kelley, Nora Griffin-Shirley, Alan Koenig, Pamela Broadston
Paper title: A study to determine the efficacy of internet delivery of classes in visual impairment: The new vision in distance education.

Marijana Konkoli

Reference number: 3668
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Marijana Konkoli, Snjezana Seitz
Paper title: Establishing the Model for low vision assessment in Croatia.

Birgit Kruk

Reference number: 3429
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Birgit Kruk, Inger Lindgren Andersson
Paper title: What´s that noise? How do we use sound when teaching pupils with visual impairments?

Frank Laemers

Reference number: 3532
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Marianna Buultjens, Lea Hÿvarinen, Frank Laemers
Paper title: A core curriculum for professionals working in early intervention with children with low vision and multi-disabilities.

Asta Lapeniene

Reference number: 3748
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Asta Lapeniene
Paper title: The clay works of visually impaired children and their change.

Kirsten Larsen

Reference number: 3681
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Kirsten Larsen
Paper title: The BMA - a model to improve development and prevent problems in Blind children with Mental disorders and Autism.

Sister Van Nga Le

Reference number: 3683
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Sister Van Nga Le
Paper title: Active Learning: An approach to teaching orientation and mobility to preschool students with vision impairment in Vietnam.

Mary Lee

Reference number: 3513
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Mary Lee, Lindi MacWilliam
Paper title: Taking account of individual learning styles.

Laurel E. Leigh

Reference number: 3760
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Laurel E. Leigh, Kathleen Mary Huebner, Audrey J. Smith, Duane Geruschat, Kerry J. Smith
Paper title: Access to visual learning options for students with severe low vision: Policy, practice and cost effectiveness - A preliminary report of a national study.

Reference number: 3761
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Personnel Preparation
Author(s): Kathleen Mary Huebner, Laurel E. Leigh
Paper title: Satellite O&M personnel preparation programs.

Mercè Leonhardt

Reference number: 3402
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Mercè Leonhardt
Paper title: Parents groups.

Nathalie Lewi-Dumont

Reference number: 3675
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Nathalie Lewi-Dumont
Paper title: Reverse mainstreaming in a first grade: A good way to learn together?

Olive Light

Reference number: 3466
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Olive Light
Paper title: Poor communication and a lack of understanding can leave families with a visual impairment in the dark. What can be done to help?

Toril Loe

Reference number: 3543
Focus area: Early intervention
Topic: Inclusive education
Author(s): Toril Loe
Paper title: A resource Centre's Contribution to a Successful Inclusion for a Visually Impaired Pre-school Child in his Community

Gunnar Lönngren

Reference number: 3674
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): MajBritt Edlund, Gerd Tobiason Jackson, Gunnar Lönngren
Paper title: Using sound to understand the environment and to be able to handle the surroundings for a person with severe visual impairment and autism.

Helen Lunn

Reference number: 3739
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Stephanie Kain, Natalie Kaine, Meagan Fairnham, Emma Steele, Anna McCauley
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: A flexible approach to teaching daily living skills to children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Reference number: 3740
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Rosemary Flavel, Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Elaine Chapman
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: The effects of personal and family characteristics on the development of independence in 3 to 18 year olds.

Reference number: 3741
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Helen Lunn
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: Levels of daily living skills and self-concept in children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Reference number: 3956
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: Meeting the challenge of intervention in urban and rural communities.

Anneke Maas

Reference number: 3553
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Mathijs P.J. Vervloed, Evelien Hoevenaars, Anneke Maas
Paper title: Treatment of sleep problems in children with visual impairments.

Sandie Mackevicius

Reference number: 3540
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Sandie Mackevicius
Paper title: Supportive practices to include young children who are blind or vision impaired in early childhood settings.

Lindi MacWilliam

Reference number: 3513
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Mary Lee, Lindi MacWilliam
Paper title: Taking account of individual learning styles.

Branislav Mamojka

Reference number: 3965
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Branislav Mamojka, Martina Kobolkova
Paper title: Social inclusion through WEB accessibility.

Phil Mangold

Reference number: 3414
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Sally S. Mangold, Phil Mangold
Paper title: Braille literacy instruction for the next generation.

Sally S. Mangold

Reference number: 3414
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Sally S. Mangold, Phil Mangold
Paper title: Braille literacy instruction for the next generation.

Àngels Ramis Martí

Reference number: 3630
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Dolors Forteza Forteza, Àngels Ramis Martí
Paper title: Self-concept and visual impairment.

Livija Martinaitiene

Reference number: 3525
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Livija Martinaitiene
Paper title: The importance of medical rehabilitation on the visual field for students with visual nerve pathology.

Gabriela Martoy

Reference number: 3713
Focus area: Transition
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Gabriela Martoy, Gladys Pereyra de Souza
Paper title: Inclusive work for blind and low vision young people in Uruguay: Present reality and future perspectives.
and spanish version (Martoy)

M Mashraki

Reference number: 3728
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): M Mashraki
Paper title: The ALEH project.

María Rosa Mayo Tagarro

Reference number: 3787
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): María Rosa Mayo Tagarro
Paper title: The family: a stimulating environment for the development and growth of the child.

José Luiz Mazzaro

Reference number: 3627
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Edileine Vieira Machado, Nely Garcia, José Luiz Mazzaro
Paper title: Alternative pedagogic support for inclusive education.

Peter Ndichu Mburu

Reference number: 3517
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Peter Ndichu Mburu
Paper title: Provision of low vision services in Kenya: A Chrsitoffel Blindenmission Initiative.

Steve McCall

Reference number: 3698
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Mike McLinden, Graeme Douglas, Steve McCall, Chris Arter
Paper title: Developing effective practice in the use of LVAs by children who have multiple disabilities and visual impairment in the United Kingdom.

Anna McCauley

Reference number: 3739
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Stephanie Kain, Natalie Kaine, Meagan Fairnham, Emma Steele, Anna McCauley
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: A flexible approach to teaching daily living skills to children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Mike McLinden

Reference number: 3698
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Mike McLinden, Graeme Douglas, Steve McCall, Chris Arter
Paper title: Developing effective practice in the use of LVAs by children who have multiple disabilities and visual impairment in the United Kingdom.

Patrick Meuldijk

Reference number: 3551
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Patrick Meuldijk
Paper title: Experiencing, a primal feeling!

Constance Miles

Reference number: 3624
Focus area: Transition
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Constance Miles, Roseanna Davidson
Paper title: Successful transition of students with Usher Syndrome from school to work or continuing education.

Nataly Montaillé

Reference number: 3873
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Catherine Thibault, Nataly Montaillé, Francis Guiteau
Paper title: The search for new methods of support in order to improve the lives of the visually impaired in their personal, professional and social environments.

Rita de Cassia Ietto Montilha

Reference number: 3800
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Rita de Cassia Ietto Montilha, Edméa Rita Temporini, Maria Ines Rubo de Souza Nobre, Newton Kara José
Paper title: Inclusion of visually impaired students: Characteristics and perceptions of school students.

Reference number: 3799
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Maria Ines Nobre, Edméa Rita Temporini, Rita de Cássia I. Montilha, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Identification of visually impaired children: Perception and mother's behavior.

Aine Murphy

Reference number: 3678
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Professional Collaboration
Author(s): Aine Murphy
Paper title: The use of Drama within a variety of subjects to deepen the learning experience.

Gwen Nagel

Reference number: 3502
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Gwen Nagel, Karen Stobbs, Raewyn Edwards
Paper title: Pathways to participation: Collaborative approaches to vision education services.

Reference number: 3503
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Families
Author(s): Gwen Nagel, Lynda Williams, Raewyn Edwards, Karen Stobbs
Paper title: Voices for our children: Parents' perspectives of the IEP process.

Nasibulova Elena

Reference number: 3659
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Nasibulova Elena
Paper title: Dolphin therapy as a part of the emotional development of children with a visual impairment.

Nurit Neustadt-Noy

Reference number: 3889
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Nurit Neustadt-Noy, Dror Zur, Shimon Ulman
Paper title: Image enhancement for the visually impaired - A new approach to visual enhancement.

Reference number: respondent
Focus area: Early Intervention
Day: Monday
Keynote respondent: Nurit Neustadt-Noy
Paper title: Respondent's paper by Nurit Neustadt-Noy

Ruth Nicholson

Reference number: 3606
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Ruth Nicholson
Paper title: Orthoptic vision assessment (ova) reports - Communicating with educators and employers about functional vision impairment.

Agnes Nimmrichter

Reference number: 3847
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Agnes Nimmrichter
Paper title: The move of a Special institution for visually impaired towards a Modern service centre in Styria, Austria.

Maria Ines Rubo de Souza Nobre

Reference number: 3799
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Maria Ines Nobre, Edméa Rita Temporini, Rita de Cássia I. Montilha, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Identification of visually impaired children: Perception and mother's behavior.

Reference number: 3800
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Rita de Cassia Ietto Montilha, Edméa Rita Temporini, Maria Ines Rubo de Souza Nobre, Newton Kara José
Paper title: Inclusion of visually impaired students: Characteristics and perceptions of school students.

Hviezdoslava Novotna

Reference number: 3968
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Hviezdoslava Novotna
Paper title: Benefits of discovery trips for young people with visual impairments.

Gladys Nyaga

Reference number: respondent
Focus area: School Years
Day: Tuesday
Keynote respondent: Gladys Nyaga
Paper title: The School Years. Past, Present and Tomorrow.

Mira Oberman-Babic

Reference number: 3599
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Mira Oberman-Babic
Paper title: A Programme for changing attitudes of pupils in mainstream schools towards the educational integration of visually impaired pupils.

Birgitta Olsson

Reference number: 3544
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Eva Bolin Thougaard, Birgitta Olsson
Paper title: Helping young students with visual impairments to build up their identity and self-esteem.

Ernst Oltrogge

Reference number: 3637
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad, Marcos Wilson Sampaio, Ernst Oltrogge, Alberto Jorge Betinjane, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: The use of optical devices in school-age children with low vision due to congenital glaucoma.

Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad

Reference number: 3637
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad, Marcos Wilson Sampaio, Ernst Oltrogge, Alberto Jorge Betinjane, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: The use of optical devices in school-age children with low vision due to congenital glaucoma.

Reference number: 3636
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Marcos Wilson Sampaio, Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: School-age children with low vision: A multi-disciplinary approach and family reaction toward inclusion.

Moshe Oved

Reference number: 3562
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Moshe Oved
Paper title: Segregation versus integration. Educational dilemma for VI pupils.

Paul Pagliano

Reference number: 3721
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Paul Pagliano
Paper title: Conceptualising a systematic approach in the use of the multisensory environment for children with multi-disabilities and visual impairment: Part one identifying the child's sense windows.

Reference number: 3955
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Paul Pagliano
Paper title: Conceptualising a systematic approach in the use of the multisensory environment for children with multi-disabilities and visual impairment: Part two designing stimulation activities to engage the child's sense windows.

Juul Pedersen

Reference number: 3727
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Juul Pedersen
Paper title: How to combine visual handicap compensatory skills, personal and socially competence's, managing adulthood.

Rosa L. Peña y Lillo Zapata

Reference number: 3706
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Rosa L. Peña y Lillo Zapata
Paper title: The teaching of Braille reading and writing: A new proposal.
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Leonor Moniz Pereira

Reference number: 3838
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Cristina Espadinha, Leonor Moniz Pereira
Paper title: Requirements of a pedagogical software for the training of the visual function on people with low vision.

Gladys Pereyra de Souza

Reference number: 3713
Focus area: Transition
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Gabriela Martoy, Gladys Pereyra de Souza
Paper title: Inclusive work for blind and low vision young people in Uruguay: Present reality and future perspectives.
and spanish version (Martoy)

Marketta Perttunen

Reference number: 3664
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Marketta Perttunen
Paper title: Art Exhibition Project with the Local Art Museum.

Plastunova Lilja

Reference number: 3494
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Plastunova Lilja
Paper title: Research of the temperament of infants with visual impairment.

Vasile L. Preda

Reference number: 3426
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Vasile L. Preda, Melinda Ferenczy, Laura E. Sendrea
Paper title: A cognitive approach to teaching-learning methods of Braille.

Prayat Punong-ong

Reference number: 3524
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Professional Collaboration
Author(s): Prayat Punong-ong
Paper title: Integrated Education through CFBT, thus paving the road towards an inclusive community in Thailand and South East Asia.

Antonio Quatraro

Reference number: 3691
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Antonio Quatraro
Paper title: Music literacy and its role in the education of the visually handicapped. New technological solutions.

Laisani Radio

Reference number: 3514
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Professional Collaboration
Author(s): Laisani Radio
Paper title: The cultured societies of the South Pacific Small Island Nations and its effects to current issues and practices relating to early intervention services

Marlies Raemaekers

Reference number: 3613
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Marlies Raemaekers
Paper title: Visual impairment in intellectually disabled children and (young) adults: Train the trainers - a pilot study in South Africa.

Reference number: 3612
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Marlies Raemaekers
Paper title: LEARNING BY DOING TOGETHER. A Bartiméus - ICEVI publication on Functional Curricula for children and youth with multiple impairments.

Thomas Ragnarsson

Reference number: 3541
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Thomas Ragnarsson
Paper title: Development of software for multi-handicapped individuals.

John Ravenscroft

Reference number: 3603
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): John Ravenscroft
Paper title: What do visually impaired children want from a website?

Nandini Rawal

Reference number: keynote
Focus area: School Years
Day: Tuesday
Keynote speaker: Nandini Rawal
Paper title: The school years ... defining the future.

Giedre Reciuniene

Reference number: 3766
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Giedre Reciuniene
Paper title: The alphabet of braille.

Carmen Rosa Rejas

Reference number: 3764
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Carmen Rosa Rejas, Nanci Palomino Buleje
Paper title: Experiences of encouraging rural Andean children with visual impairment into their local community.

Kirsten Havelin Rekdal

Reference number: 3555
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Kirsten Havelin Rekdal, Trygve Svardal
Paper title: Adapted Braille Textbooks as an educational tool in inclusive education in Norway.

Peter Rodney

Reference number: 3556
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Peter Rodney
Paper title: The psychological aspect of visual impairment as a central understand-ing in the development of inclusion.

Lourdes Romero

Reference number: not available
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Lourdes Romero
Paper title: Structural modifications of the educative system of the people with visual disability: Economical perspective.

Anders Rönnbäck

Reference number: 3828
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Anders Rönnbäck
Paper title: The learning environment for young Braille reading pupils.

Ann Ross

Reference number: 3677
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Ann Ross
Paper title: What About Us? Workshops for siblings of preschoolers with a visual impairment.

Birgit Rothenberg

Reference number: 3837
Focus area: Transition
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Birgit Drolshagen, Birgit Rothenberg
Paper title: Creating a university without barriers: The example of the university of Dortmund.

Anna Rozborska

Reference number: 3866
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Antonina Adamowicz-Hummel, Anna Rozborska, Anne Yeadon
Paper title: Employability Enhancement Projects of AWARE Europe.

Marcos Wilson Sampaio

Reference number: 3636
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Marcos Wilson Sampaio, Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: School-age children with low vision: A multi-disciplinary approach and family reaction toward inclusion.

Reference number: 3637
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Maria Aparecida Onuki Haddad, Marcos Wilson Sampaio, Ernst Oltrogge, Alberto Jorge Betinjane, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: The use of optical devices in school-age children with low vision due to congenital glaucoma.

Teresa Sanchez

Reference number: not available
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Teresa Sanchez
Paper title: Structure of the new model of attention for visual impairment in Ecuador.

Victoria Santhanaraj

Reference number: 3579
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Victoria Santhanaraj
Paper title: Reading performance in foveal and peripheral vision.

Snjezana Seitz

Reference number: 3668
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Marijana Konkoli, Snjezana Seitz
Paper title: Establishing the Model for low vision assessment in Croatia.

Laura E. Sendrea

Reference number: 3426
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Vasile L. Preda, Melinda Ferenczy, Laura E. Sendrea
Paper title: A cognitive approach to teaching-learning methods of Braille.

Roelof Schellingerhout

Reference number: 3687
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Ans Withagen, Roelof Schellingerhout
Paper title: Validation of the Tactual Profile.

Reference number: 3689
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Roelof Schellingerhout, Nienke Boonstra
Paper title: Low vision aids for young visually impaired children.

Henoch Schoeman

Reference number: 3888
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Henoch Schoeman
Paper title: South Africa: Moving from a centralised and segregated education system to a decentralised and inclusive education approach.

Ana Helena Schreiber

Reference number: 3722
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Ana Helena Schreiber
Paper title: Comunique - Assessing multi-disabilities and visual impairment with a Computer Communication System.

Hans Schuman

Reference number: 3558
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Hans Schuman
Paper title: The development of an empowering curriculum for visually impaired pupils with learning difficulties.

Reference number: 3560
Focus area: Transition
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Hans Schuman, Ronald van Leeuwen
Paper title: Vision on competencies: Preparation for employment for visually impaired pupils with learning difficulties.

Reference number: 3561
Focus area: Transition
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Mariët Tonen, Hans Schuman
Paper title: EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE STRATEGY. Development of a model to assist career support and career development for clients of the Employment Sector at Bartiméus.
and part 2 (Tonen)

Joyce Nesker Simmons

Reference number: 3542
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Joyce Nesker Simmons, Marie Renee Hector
Paper title: Education: A route to citizenship.

Nina Sjöblom

Reference number: 3554
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Nina Sjöblom
Paper title: A Place for Everyone - including children with visually impairment in pre-school, school recreation.

Marketa Skalicka

Reference number: 3735
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Marketa Skalicka
Paper title: Assessment of vision functioning in multi-disabled and visually impaired children for early intervention planning.

Audrey J. Smith

Reference number: 3760
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Research
Author(s): Laurel E. Leigh, Kathleen Mary Huebner, Audrey J. Smith, Duane Geruschat, Kerry J. Smith
Paper title: Access to visual learning options for students with severe low vision: Policy, practice and cost effectiveness - A preliminary report of a national study.

Henk Snetselaar

Reference number: 3559
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Henk Snetselaar
Paper title: Information and communication technology in the education visually impaired pupils. A way to integration

Birgit Spohn

Reference number: 3854
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Birgit Spohn, Michael Brambring
Paper title: Development from infancy to late childhood in children who are blind. A follow up to the Bielefeld Longitudinal Study.

Susan J. Spungin

Reference number: 3759
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Change in Community
Author(s): Kathleen Mary Huebner, Karen Wolffe, Anne L. Corn, Susan J. Spungin
Paper title: A Grassroots Effort of Solidarity: A national agenda for the education of children and youth with visual impairments.

Joan Stead

Reference number: 3523
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Joan Stead, Marianna Buultjens, Mary Dallas
Paper title: Promoting social inclusion of pupils with visual impairment in mainstream schools in Scotland.

Emma Steele

Reference number: 3739
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Helen Lunn, Christine Johnston, Rosemary Flavel, Stephanie Kain, Natalie Kaine, Meagan Fairnham, Emma Steele, Anna McCauley
Paper title: The Vision and Living Skills Research Project: A flexible approach to teaching daily living skills to children and adolescents with severe vision impairment.

Mike Steer

Reference number: 3410
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Mike Steer, Rod Beattie
Paper title: Vision impairment service provider agencies: The manifest and latent-function paradox.

Jodi Sticken

Reference number: 3578
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Personnel Preparation
Author(s): Gaylen Kapperman, Jodi Sticken, Toni Heinze
Paper title: The development of Braille tutorials for sighted and blind persons which operate on computers and the Braille Lite.

Karen Stobbs

Reference number: 3502
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Gwen Nagel, Karen Stobbs, Raewyn Edwards
Paper title: Pathways to participation: Collaborative approaches to vision education services.

Reference number: 3503
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Families
Author(s): Gwen Nagel, Lynda Williams, Raewyn Edwards, Karen Stobbs
Paper title: Voices for our children: Parents' perspectives of the IEP process.

Keld Stochholm

Reference number: 3692
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Keld Stochholm, Svend Thougaard
Paper title: How braille forms the complete user interface when learning and communicating in information and knowledge society.

Trygve Svardal

Reference number: 3555
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Kirsten Havelin Rekdal, Trygve Svardal
Paper title: Adapted Braille Textbooks as an educational tool in inclusive education in Norway.

Tapia Martin

Reference number: 3565
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Tapia Martin
Paper title: A group experience.

Edméa Rita Temporini

Reference number: 3756
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Maria Elisabete Rodrigues Freire Gasparetto, Edméa Rita Temporini, Keila Miriam Monteiro Carvalho, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Head teacher's perception regarding the needs of teachers to work in inclusive education with low vision students.

Reference number: 3757
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Maria Elisabete Rodrigues Freire Gasparetto, Edméa Rita Temporini, Keila Miriam Monteiro Carvalho, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Inclusive education of the low vision student: Teachers' pedagogical conduct.

Reference number: 3799
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Maria Ines Nobre, Edméa Rita Temporini, Rita de Cássia I. Montilha, Newton Kara-José
Paper title: Identification of visually impaired children: Perception and mother's behavior.

Reference number: 3800
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Rita de Cassia Ietto Montilha, Edméa Rita Temporini, Maria Ines Rubo de Souza Nobre, Newton Kara José
Paper title: Inclusion of visually impaired students: Characteristics and perceptions of school students.

Vimal Thawani

Reference number: 3843
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Vimal Thawani
Paper title: Integration of children with multiple disability in communities.

Catherine Thibault

Reference number: 3873
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Catherine Thibault, Nataly Montaillé, Francis Guiteau
Paper title: The search for new methods of support in order to improve the lives of the visually impaired in their personal, professional and social environments.

Eva Bolin Thougaard

Reference number: 3544
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Eva Bolin Thougaard, Birgitta Olsson
Paper title: Helping young students with visual impairments to build up their identity and self-esteem.

Svend Thougaard

Reference number: 3692
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Keld Stochholm, Svend Thougaard
Paper title: How braille forms the complete user interface when learning and communicating in information and knowledge society.

Paivi Toikkanen

Reference number: 3508
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access to Literacy
Author(s): Paivi Toikkanen
Paper title: Studying embossed maps.

Mariët Tonen

Reference number: 3561
Focus area: Transition
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Mariët Tonen, Hans Schuman
Paper title: EMPLOYMENT GUIDANCE STRATEGY. Development of a model to assist career support and career development for clients of the Employment Sector at Bartiméus.
and part 2 (Tonen)

Shimon Ulman

Reference number: 3889
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Nurit Neustadt-Noy, Dror Zur, Shimon Ulman
Paper title: Image enhancement for the visually impaired - A new approach to visual enhancement.

Marian van Amerongen

Reference number: 3586
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Marian van Amerongen, Marten van Doorn
Paper title: Using public transport.

Ineke van Dijk

Reference number: 3661
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Professional Collaboration
Author(s): Ineke van Dijk, Marjon T. Vink, Corry J.van Gendt-van Evert
Paper title: Planning for the future: 25 years of early intervention and the road ahead of us.

Marten van Doorn

Reference number: 3586
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Marian van Amerongen, Marten van Doorn
Paper title: Using public transport.

Reference number: 3587
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Roland van Grinsven, Marten van Doorn
Paper title: Cycling training for the visually impaired - the Dutch method.

Roland van Grinsven

Reference number: 3587
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Roland van Grinsven, Marten van Doorn
Paper title: Cycling training for the visually impaired - the Dutch method.

Toos van Huijgevoort

Reference number: 3538
Focus area: Transition
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Toos van Huijgevoort
Paper title: 'Breakthrough' - how a self-investigation contributes to the process of developing a positive sense of Self.

Ronald van Leeuwen

Reference number: 3560
Focus area: Transition
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Hans Schuman, Ronald van Leeuwen
Paper title: Vision on competencies: Preparation for employment for visually impaired pupils with learning difficulties.

Vanchine Serguei Nikolaevich

Reference number: 4000
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Change in Community
Author(s): Vanchine Serguei Nikolaevich
Paper title: The Institute "Rehacomp" as a base of adaptation of visually impaired people and All-Russian Association for the Blind to the new political-economical situation.

Els Vervaart

Reference number: 3518
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Ida E. Ekkens, Els Vervaart
Paper title: IN - SIGHT: An assessment procedure for higher levels of visual functioning in partially sighted children, six to twelve years of age, with normal learning capacities.

Mathijs P.J. Vervloed

Reference number: 3553
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Mathijs P.J. Vervloed, Evelien Hoevenaars, Anneke Maas
Paper title: Treatment of sleep problems in children with visual impairments.

Edileine Vieira Machado

Reference number: 3627
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Edileine Vieira Machado, Nely Garcia, José Luiz Mazzaro
Paper title: Alternative pedagogic support for inclusive education.

Reference number: 3628
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Edileine Vieira Machado, Nely Garcia
Paper title: Vide braille i - educational software.

Reference number: 3635
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Edileine Vieira Machado, Nely Garcia
Paper title: Ludic space: An space of inclusion.

Marjon T. Vink

Reference number: 3661
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Professional Collaboration
Author(s): Ineke van Dijk, Marjon T. Vink, Corry J.van Gendt-van Evert
Paper title: Planning for the future: 25 years of early intervention and the road ahead of us.

Márcia Maria Vitoriano de Azevedo

Reference number: 3515
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Márcia Maria Vitoriano de Azevedo
Paper title: Physical education, orientation and mobility and inclusion.

Reference number: 3516
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Access and Information Technologies
Author(s): Márcia Maria Vitoriano de Azevedo
Paper title: Parameters of effectiveness for special software to enable full access for people with visual impairment.

Sue Walker

Reference number: 3676
Focus area: School Years
Topic: New Service Models
Author(s): Sue Walker
Paper title: An innovative service model to assist meaningful access to sport and recreation for visually impaired young people in special and inclusive education.

Renate Walthes

Reference number: keynote
Focus area: Early Intervention
Day: Monday
Keynote speaker: Renate Walthes
Paper title: Keynotes speaker's paper by Renate Walthes

W. Aubrey Webson

Reference number: keynote
Focus area: Transition
Day: Thursday
Keynote speaker: W. Aubrey Webson
Paper title: Transition for students from home to work and/or school to college.

Jaroslaw Wiazowski

Reference number: 3424
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Jaroslaw Wiazowski
Paper title: Computer assisted language learning as a bridge to social Inclusion of blind learners in mainstream schooling.

Lynda Williams

Reference number: 3503
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Families
Author(s): Gwen Nagel, Lynda Williams, Raewyn Edwards, Karen Stobbs
Paper title: Voices for our children: Parents' perspectives of the IEP process.

Annica Winberg

Reference number: 3855
Focus area: Early Intervention
Topic: Families
Author(s): Annica Winberg
Paper title: Support network for families with visually impaired children - a parental perspective.

Ans Withagen

Reference number: 3687
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Assessment
Author(s): Ans Withagen, Roelof Schellingerhout
Paper title: Validation of the Tactual Profile.

Karen Wolffe

Reference number: 3759
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Change in Community
Author(s): Kathleen Mary Huebner, Karen Wolffe, Anne L. Corn, Susan J. Spungin
Paper title: A Grassroots Effort of Solidarity: A national agenda for the education of children and youth with visual impairments.

Peng Xiaguang

Reference number: 3777
Focus area: School Years
Topic: MDVI
Author(s): Peng Xiaguang
Paper title: Education children with MDVI in China.

Anne Yeadon

Reference number: 3866
Focus area: Transition
Topic: Living Skills
Author(s): Antonina Adamowicz-Hummel, Anna Rozborska, Anne Yeadon
Paper title: Employability Enhancement Projects of AWARE Europe.

Zahra Shahi

Reference number: 3695
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Inclusive Education
Author(s): Bahram Jadidi, Zahra Shahi
Paper title: Adapted basketball for the blind.

Dror Zur

Reference number: 3889
Focus area: School Years
Topic: Low Vision
Author(s): Nurit Neustadt-Noy, Dror Zur, Shimon Ulman
Paper title: Image enhancement for the visually impaired - A new approach to visual enhancement.