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ICEVI - 12th World Conference CALL FOR PAPERS RELEASE

Achieving Equality in Education - New Challenges and Strategies for Change

The 12th World Conference of the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment (ICEVI) will be held at the Putra World Trade Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 16 to 21 July 2006. The Malaysian Association for the Blind (MAB) is the Host Organisation of this conference. Come to Malaysia - Truly Asia and enjoy making your contribution to this vital conference.

The conference will be jointly managed by the ICEVI Secretariat and the Malaysian Host
Committee. Registration and accommodation will be organised by MAB and ICEVI will manage the programme and the processing of conference papers. Please log on to ICEVI website, www.icevi.org for more details.

CONFERENCE DETAILS

Conference Aims

Achieving Equality in Education: New Challenges and Strategies for Change

    - To promote dialogue at the highest level on the international issues reflecting the key issues of the theme of the conference Equality in Education, Challenges and Strategies
    - To facilitate an exchange of perceptions, experiences, practice and research during
formal and informal interactions.
    - To provide a current international overview of the equality of access to education and rehabilitation for children and young people with a visual impairment.
    - To enable participants to hear, question and work alongside respected international
experts in the field of visual impairment as they respond to the conference theme.

To enable you to write your abstract, the Programme Committee has identified three main areas of focus:

    - Achieving Equality in Education: Attitudes and Policies
    - Achieving Equality in Education: Human Resource Development
    - Achieving Equality in Education: Strategies for Change

And we invite you to develop a presentation within the framework of the following topics with special preference being given to the papers that address New and Innovative Strategies.

    - Equality of Access to Education
    - Multi-disabilities and Visual Impairment (MDVI)
    - New /Innovative Service Models
    - Low Vision
    - Personnel Preparation - teacher education and other professionals
    - Assessment Procedures - theory and practice
    - Inclusive Educational Practices
    - Working with Families
    - Life Skills including Orientation and Mobility, Social Skills
    - Innovative use of Community Resources
    - Early Childhood Intervention
    - Life-long Learning
    - Access and Information Technologies and Adaptive or Assistive Technology
    - Professional (multi-disciplinary) Collaboration
    - Access to Literacy through Braille or Print
    - Alternate Education Models for Young Adults
    - Creating Educational Equity for Women and Girls
    - Access to Curricular and Extra-Curricular areas
    - Rebuilding Educational Systems in Countries affected by War or Natural Disasters.

Supported Places

A scholarship committee chaired by Grace Chan, J.P., ICEVI Treasurer is being formed and guidelines are being developed for the equitable distribution of the limited funding available to support needy and deserving persons who would otherwise be unable to participate in the conference. As with the last conference those funds will be administered by ICEVI regional committees. Check the ICEVI website and future issues of The Educator for further information.