Germany - ConSozial 2007 and Conference on Rehabilitation and Participation

This year the exhibition ConSozial and the Conference on Rehabilitation and Participation are held together in Nürnberg, Germany on November 7th-8th, 2007. The motto of this years conference is "Investing in Social Affairs - Creating more Value". The conference is held in the German language.

More information regarding exposition, conference programme, registration, etc. can be found at www.consozial.de

Announcement about International Congress on Computer Support for People with Special Educational Needs in September, 2007 in Stuttgart, Germany.

This Conference will be held at the end of a three years European Leonardo da Vinci Pilot Project ON-LINE in the fields of Long Life Learning and Vocational Training. Main focuss is the use of  Computer know-how and other competences as prevocational training for people with SEN.

 

A Glossary of key terms for Special Needs Education has been developed by the German National Co-ordinator, Anette Hausotter. The Glossary provides comparative German and English key terms for a number of areas in the SNE field. Find more details within the files which present English terms in alphabetical order (glossary_en.doc) and German terms (glossary_de.doc) in alphabetical order.
 

 

 

Time- keeping is an important help for orientation, necessary for life in our cultural habitat. Every day our kids/ students experience that people wear watches and orientate with their help. The educational project “The pictorial watch” is orientated at the ambitions and needs of our children/ students. An educational box has been developed to suit all everyone ( primary school- students, students with problems in arithmetics or other learning disabilities, mentally- handicapped children/ students as well as mentally- handicapped adults) in need of help with learning and/ or reading the watch/ knowing the time. More information can be found in the following document pictorialwatch.doc
If you are interested, you can also get a lot of information or the educational box, by contacting the following address:
 
Robert und Gerhild Garthof
H.- Heine- Str. 16
99706 Sondershausen/ Germany
tel./ fax: +49(0)3632 758301
e-mail: PITCO@t-online.de, piktogrammuhr@arcor.de
Web: http://home.arcor.de/piktogrammuhr

FWU (Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht)

The FWU (Institut für Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht) is Germany's leading producer of audiovisual and didactic, interactive media for schools and other educational organisations. FWU produces both analogue and digital videos, educational software on CD-ROMs as well as internet applications. Please see further details in the Fact Sheet (This document is in English).

Bundesland Thüringen: Pilot project about a flexible enrolment

Suggested by the recommendations of the Standing Staff of the Conference of Ministers of Education (KMK) the Bundesland Thüringen analsed their enrolment into elementary  school. Since the results  were not satisfying, they reflected about more flexibility  and differenciation in their organisation and structure. They decided to start a  project with the aim to optimize the quality of enrolement for all pupils, including those with disadvantages and SEN.

In the following you will find a short description of the project in English and in German language. If you are interested in more details pleas get into contact with:

Regina Winzer
ThILLM Bad Berka
Heinrich-Heine-Allee 2-4
99458 Bad Berka
Fon: 036458/56 335
Fax: 036458/56 300
RWinzer@thillm.thueringen.de

Kids, Art and New Media

Between August 2002 and March 2005 almost 40 projects, which explored the world with digital media have been undertaken by pupils, teachers and artists at primary schools and schools for pupils with special needs. The questions and answers that have arisen from our projects will be discussed in the light of different perspectives. 

What is the gain of co-operations between schools and external partners?
Which crises and miracles can occur in collaborative projects in schools and how can we cope with them?
What advantages (or disadvantages) does working with digital media have for pupils with special needs? Which other factors play a part in the progress of a project?

Speeches will be prepared by our academic supervisors, the project leaders and co-ordinators as well as international guests. Furthermore pupils, teachers, and artists will exhibit their work to provide you an insight into the projects and the single steps of the working process. The end of the conference will be marked by the screening of all videos produced during the projects.

Markus Schega, co-ordinator of "Kids, Art and New Media"
Nanna Lüth and Carmen Mörsch, academic supervisors 

Information in German http://wir-in-berlin.de/kubim . 

ISAR - Project: Inclusion of Students / Children with Visual Impairment at Regular Schools

The project ISaR is based on the know-how and expertise of the teachers, students and parents. ISaR intends to collect and systematise approaches, efforts, concepts, strategies and materials and make them available to all interested people. This can be achieved by working together with parents, teachers of regular schools and schools for the blind and visually impaired as well as students. Therefore, ISaR relies on your support, participation and interest in working together.

Priorities
I. Databases: consisting of special literature and experience reports, adapted textbooks and
material for inclusive education.
II. Developing and Establishing a Pool of Didactic Information: consisting of drafts, proposals and teaching units to realise teaching which respects the perception and strategies of the visually impaired students.
III. Network and Enlargement of Further Education Programmes: for teachers of all types of schools, as well as a network of the already existing programmes
IV. Development of a Coordinating Centre: with the objective to support all people involved in the process of interactive teaching.

The key to further development of education of people with visual impairments lies in the mutuality and a network of expertise and resources. What is mutually developed will support and facilitate the individual work. "Together everyone achieves more"

Contact for more information:

University of Dortmund, Faculty of Rehabilitation Services, Rehabilitation and Education of Blindness & Visual Impairment, Project ISaR, 44221 Dortmund, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 231 / 755 5874
Fax: +49 (0) 231 / 755 4558
e-mail: isar@udo.edu
Homepage: http://www.isar-projekt.de (German Version) or http://www.isar-projekt.de/budapest/