THE EDUCATOR
Winter 1999
International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment


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F.Y.I.

FOR YOUR INFORMATION

 
 
BRAZIL

ICEVI Website

 

For those of you with Internet access, we encourage you to visit the ICEVI Website which is linked to the Website of the Overbrook School for the Blind <http://www.obs.org> and then just "click" on ICEVI. ICEVI will regularly post materials of interest to our members on this Website. For those who could not be in Saô Paulo, you will find lots of interesting materials from our 10th World Conference on the ICEVI Website.
 
 

Proceedings ICEVI 10th World Conference

 
By the time you read this issue of The Educator, those of you who participated in the 10th World Conference in Saô Paulo should have received an updated disk copy of the Conference Proceedings. Before you left Saô Paulo, we provided you with a preliminary copy of the proceedings, however, there were some reports that were not available until the end of the conference; and, therefore, we are providing all participants with a final copy which contains this material along with a list of all participants. If, for any reason, you have not received your copy or if the address you used on your registration form has changed, please contact: Robert Mortimer, LARAMARA, Rua Conselheiro Brotero 338, Barra Funda CEP 01154-000, Saô Paulo - SP - Brasil;
TEL: 55-11-36626177, ext. 122; FAX: 55-11-826-9108; E-MAIL: RMORTIMER@STI.COM.BR
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CHINA
 

Braille Materials for Use in China

 

Many young blind persons in China are studying English but have limited access to braille materials. To help these people, the China Braille Press has established a Foreign Language Department which is receiving, cataloging and circulating English language braille materials. If you have braille magazines or literature that you are no longer using and would like to share these with blind persons in China please send these materials to: China Braille Press, Foreign Language Department, 39 Cheng Nei Street, Lu Gou Qiao, Beijing 100072, CHINA.
 

GERMANY

Berlin

MAY 31-JUNE 4, 1998
 

6th European Congress on Research Rehabilitation

 

Contact: Congress Secretary ECRR-98

Mr. H. Kirsten
c/o BAR
Walter-Kolb-Strasse 9-11, D-60594
Frankfurt/M, GERMANY
TEL: 49.69.605018.10
FAX: 49.69.605018.37
 
 

ITALY

Rome

OCTOBER 16-18, 1998
 

World Conference on Handicap and Isolation

(Rescheduled from October 3-5, 1997)
 

Contact: Mrs. Carolina Martino

Secretary

PROGRESS Promozione Congressi s.r.l.
Via Giacomo Trevis 88
00147 Rome, Italy
TEL: 06.516.00.647
FAX: 06.516.11.131
 
 

THE NETHERLANDS

Amsterdam

JUNE 21-26, 1998
 

28th International Congress of Ophthalmology

 

Contact: Eurocongress Conference Management

Jan van Goyenkade 11
1075 HP Amsterdam
THE NETHERLANDS
TEL: 31.20.6793411
FAX: 31.20.6737306
WEBSITE: http://www.solution.nl/ico-98
 
 
 
 
 
 

SOUTH AFRICA
 

Course to Train Instructors of Multiply Disabled Persons

 

The Committee for Multi-handicapped Blind of the South African National Council for the Blind (SANCB) plans to offer a course to train instructors of persons with visual impairments and other disabilities. The first part of the course, basic training, will be integrated with interactive, practical experience and will cover awareness of different types of disabilities, facilities, and support sources. It will also include community health, interdisciplinary intervention, principles of treatment and theory. The second part of the course, advanced training, will be offered the following year. The SANCB plans to develop a separate course for training instructors of persons who are deafblind. For more information, contact: SANCB, 514 White Street, Baileys Muckleneuk, 0181 Pretoria, SOUTH AFRICA; TEL: 012.346.1171, FAX: 012.346.1177.
 
 
 
 
 
 

UNITED KINGDOM
 

Catalog for Deafblind Persons

 

Access, a catalog of products and services aimed specifically at persons who are deafblind, is now available. For more information, contact: Deafblind UK, 100 Bridge Street, Peterborough PE1 1DY, UNITED KINGDOM; TEL: 44.0.1733.358100; FAX: 44.0.1733.358356.
 
 
 
 

UNITED STATES

Atlanta, GA

JULY 1-6, 1998
 

International Mobility Conference IX, "Moving into the 21st Century"

 

Contact: Dr. Bruce Blasch

Senior Scientist
VA Medical Center
Rehabilitation Research and Development
1670 Clairmont Road (151R)
Decatur, GA 30033
U.S.A.
TEL: (404) 321-6111 EXT. 6277
E-MAIL: Bearconsul@aol.com
 
 
 
 

Atlanta, GA

JULY 8-12, 1998
 

AER International Conference

Sponsored by the Association for Education and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired (AER).

Contact: AER

P.O. Box 22397
Alexandria, VA 22304
TEL: (703) 823-9690
 
 

Chicago, IL

DECEMBER 6-9, 1998
 

Annual International Division of Early Childhood Conference

Sponsored by the Council for Exceptional Children

Contact: 1998 International DEC Conference

3 Church Circle, Suite 194
Annapolis, MD 21401
TEL: (410) 269-6801
FAX: (410) 267-0332
 
 

High-tech News for Blind Musicians and Their Teachers

Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology, L.P., of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, has released the GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator. GOODFEEL lets you produce braille music transcriptions in hours instead of months! GOODFEEL promotes literacy for the blind musician by automating the transcription of braille scores. It automatically converts Lime Notation and MIDI files to braille. NIFF files can be imported into the shareware Lime editor, saved as Lime files and brailled by GOODFEEL. GOODFEEL gives you an unlimited number of pages of transcribed braille.
 
To prepare braille transcriptions using GOODFEEL, you do not necessarily need to know how to read braille music yourself. GOODFEEL interprets the musical information stored in these files, applying the rules and syntax of music braille. Your score can be embossed on any braille printer and saved as an ASCII text file for future use. MIDISCAN or PianoScan can be used to scan staff notation into Lime's editor, speeding data entry. Blind composers / arrangers who create MIDI files with Cakewalk or other sequencers can now independently emboss braille scores of their creative ideas. The full-featured GOODFEEL Braille Music Translator costs $795. A trial version is available which gives you 100 pages of music braille for $49.
 
For further information visit the Dancing Dots web site at
http: //www.netaxs.com/~ddots, (that's slash tilde d d o t s, as in d dots), or contact: Dancing Dots, 130 Hampden Road, 3rd floor, Upper Darby, PA 19082-3110; TEL: 610-352-7607; FAX: 610-352-4582; E-MAIL: ddots@netaxs.com.
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