The aim of the webinar is to introduce the Nordic approach to congenital deafblindness, present the methods of functional assessment of persons with deafblindness, with the focus on development of support and education services to children and their parents.
The webinar is targeted to practitioners from special schools and kindergartens, psychological-pedagogical services, health experts (oftalmologists, otolaringologists, pediatricians, child psychiatrists,etc.), NGOs in the area of disability, students of social work, parents from the Baltic countries.
Webinar program
14.00-14.15 Opening Words
Helén Nilsson, Director of Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania.
Grazina Seibokiene, Head of Division of Education Support, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport.
14.15-15.15 Keynotes. Identification of Congenital Deafblindness, based on the Nordic functional definition.
· Maria Creutz, Senior adviser, Deafblind Issues, Nordic Welfare Centre
· Annika Maria Johanssen, Senior advisor at Statped, Centre for Special Education in Bergen, Norway at the Department of Deafblindness and Dual Visual and Hearing Impairment, Norway.
14.35-15.25 Coffee break
15.25-16.00 Panel discussion and Q&A: Identification of Congenital Deafblindness in the Nordic and Baltic countries
· Dalia Tauriene, typhlopedagogue, Lithuanian Training Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
· Maria Creutz, Senior adviser, Deafblind Issues, Nordic Welfare Centre.
· Annika Maria Johanssen, senior advisor at Statped, Centre for Special Education in Bergen, Norway at the Department of Deafblindness and Dual Visual and Hearing Impairment, Norway.
· Malle Kariste, Estonian Support Union of the Deafblind
· Ligita Ģeida, Director of Riga Strazdumuiza center for visually impaired and blind children
Please register to the event by filling in a participant’s form here.
Event language is English with translation to Lithuanian.
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For further information
VIDA GINTAUTAITĖ
Adviser on Social and Welfare issues
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