International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment Proceedings European Conference Visions and strategies for the new century Cracow, Poland, 9 -13 July 2000 Edited by dr Herman A. A. Gresnigt European Chairman ICEVI
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"The growing together and the intensive exchange among European countries which is particularly well mirrored in the organisation of the ICEVI, may be used to unitedly and powerfully represent the interests of people with visual impiarment."
 
From the keynote address of prof dr Renate Walthes

Part 1: Plenary sessions

Opening session, Sunday 9 July 2000, 15.00 - 17.00

• Welcome by dr Herman Gresnigt, European Chairman ICEVI
• Welcome by Mr Mieczyslaw Kozlowski, chairman of the Polish Host Committee
• Message from Mrs Jolanta Kwa�niewska, First Lady of Poland
• Message from Mrs Franciszka Cegielska, Minister of Health
• Message from dr Ryszard Maslowski, voivode of Malopolska
• Speech by prof. dr hab Miroslaw Handke, Minister of Education
  presented by Mrs Urszula Grodzka
• Speech by Larry Campbell, President of ICEVI
• Speech by Tommaso Daniele, Vice-President of the EBU
• Education of blind and visually impaired children in Poland
  by prof dr hab Jadwiga Kuczynska-Kwapisz, Poland
• Keynote address: Visions and strategies for the New Century
  by prof dr Renate Walthes, Germany

Plenary session 1 - Early intervention, Monday 10 July 2000, 9.00 - 10.30

• Blindness as a factor of vulnerability: a preventive focus
  Rosa Lucerga Revuelta, Spain
• Low vision in early intervention services for children with visual impairment in Europe
  Marianna Buultjens, United Kingdom
• The training of Early Intervention Staff
  Grazyna Walczak, Poland

Plenary Session 2 - Multi-disabled visually impaired, Monday 10 July 2000, 11.00 - 12.30

• Visually impaired children with additional disabilities: specificity of the taking care
  Marcel Wattel, France
• The outreaching function of a specialised centre for persons with multiple disabilities
  Marlies Raemaekers, the Netherlands
• The school for the visually impaired is changing
  Eberhard Fuchs, Germany

Plenary session 3, Tuesday 11 July 2000, 14.00 - 15.30

• Social Learning: an interventional concept
  Roswit Strittmatter, Germany
  (abstract - ful text not available in English)
• Vocational training and employment based on the outcomes of the Arla-ICEVI workshop and focussed on future developments in this field
  Marika Carlborg, Finland
• The importance of information technology for visually impaired children and youngsters and the expectations for future developments
  Lars Ballieu Christensen, Denmark

Plenary session 4, Thursday 13 July 2000, 14.00 - 15.30

• Introduction
• Elena Nasibulova, Russia
• Silja Anu Taru, Estonia
• Piotr Grocholski, Poland
• Steluta Bageag, Romania
• Vladimir Radoulov, Bulgaria
• Solveig Sjostedt, Finland

Closing session, Thursday 13 July 2000, 16.00 - 17.00

• Looking back on the conference from the perspectives as sketched in the keynote address
  Renate Walthes
• The role of ICEVI Europe with regard to the continuation of sharing information and knowledge
  Herman Gresnigt and Martina Kobolkova, Slovak Republic
• Closing of the Conference
  Herman Gresnigt

Part 2: Abstracts of lectures in parallel sessions and abstracts of posters

• Chapter 1: Early intervention
• Chapter 2: Multi-disabled visually impaired
• Chapter 3: Low vision
• Chapter 4: Special school
• Chapter 5: Integration
• Chapter 6: Social education/social educational development
• Chapter 7: Vocational training and employment
• Chapter 8: New technology
• Chapter 9: Teacher training
• Chapter 10: Parents
• Chapter 11: Miscellaneous

List of participants

List of ICEVI contactpersons in Europe

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