6th International Forum on the Education of the Blind “Development, education and rehabilitation of people with visual impairments: today's challenges and innovations”
An event bringing together representatives of educational and rehabilitation centres, researchers, teachers of the blind, specialists from special schools and from rehabilitation, civil society organisations, charitable foundations and everyone who works with children and adults with impairments…
An event bringing together representatives of educational and rehabilitation centres, researchers, teachers of the blind, specialists from special schools and from rehabilitation, civil society organisations, charitable foundations and everyone who works with children and adults with visual impairments.
It is a platform for discussing current needs and for sharing experience and innovative tools for the rehabilitation, adaptation and socialisation of adults and children, military and civilian, who have lost their sight as a result of the hostilities in Ukraine.
November 12, 2024
Venue: Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture
Address: Kyiv, 31 Povitrianykh Syl Avenue
The forum programme includes:
- Education, rehabilitation and adaptation of service members who have sustained visual impairment in combat.
- Psychological and educational support for children with visual impairments and their parents.
- Assistive technologies and innovations for people with visual impairments.
- Leisure and employment of people with visual disabilities in Ukraine: problems and prospects.
November 13, 2024
Venue: TRINITI HUB educational and rehabilitation centre
Address: Kyiv, 25 Kioto Street
The forum programme includes:
- Activating opportunities: challenges and innovations in the education and rehabilitation of people with visual impairments in Ukraine and worldwide.
- Innovative approaches in work with visually impaired children.
- Educational strategies for children with visual impairments amid today's challenges.
- Strategic directions for the development of the all-Ukrainian organisation “Association of Teachers of the Blind of Ukraine”.
Round table “Experience and innovation in the rehabilitation of people with visual impairment”:
- discussion of experience, problems, achievements and innovations in the rehabilitation of civilians and service members who have lost their sight;
- presentation of teaching materials in this field;
- presentation of the project “Primer for adults” — a book and teaching material in universal design that combines Braille with enlarged print.
- Forum organisers: Association of Effective Psychologists of Ukraine; Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture; TRINITI HUB educational and rehabilitation centre; International charitable foundation “Health of the Future”
Partners:
- All-Ukrainian Association of Teachers of the Blind of Ukraine
- Faculty of Special and Inclusive Education of the Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University
- Department of Psychology of the Institute of Law and Psychology of the National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
- Veterans Cluster of Ukraine
- KNUBA Institute of Reintegration, Rehabilitation and Professional Development of Veterans “Architecture of Resilience”
Application form — https://docs.google.com/file/d/1VxgTpCWsaVwrA_8fuquQtr5UmE7Q69f4/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword
Charitable contribution from participants
Exhibition area with innovative products
Collection of abstracts and papers
Organising committee: 066 252 82 77, Antonii