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Scottish Sensory Centre
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Symposium on Physical Activity and Individuals who are Visually Impaired or Deafblind will take place at John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh on 9th-12th May 2019.
Programme includes Lauren Lieberman, Pam Haibach Beach (USA), Judit Gombas (Hungary). Plus a range of presentations from professionals from Australia, Canada, Germany, Jordan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, the USA and the UK.
Early bird rate until end of March 2019!
Check out the new projects and papers that SSC and our colleagues have been working on.
New courses for 2018-19 include Theory of Mind, Speech Acoustics and Sensory Engagement for Mental Wellbeing.
Current events
- Tuesday, 26th February 2019 - An Introduction to Sensory Integration: understanding and supporting children's motor and sensory development
- Wednesday, 13th March 2019 - Introduction to Support for Students with a Visual Impairment in College and University
- Wednesday, 20th March 2019 - Know Your Rights: Update on current legislation and benefits for children and young people with sensory impairments and Networking event Dundee
- Wednesday, 27th March 2019 - Deafness and Additional Speech and Language Difficulties
- Tuesday, 30th April 2019 - Positive Mental Health in Children & Young People - FULL
- Thursday, 9th - Sunday 12th May 2019 - Symposium on Physical Activity and Individuals who are Visually Impaired or Deafblind
What's new?
- Symposium on Physical Activity and Individuals who are Visually Impaired or Deafblind
- Scholarship to PhD Education applicants commencing January 2019 for a significant 6-year research project funded by the NDCS.
- Report of the Scottish Government survey of Teachers of pupils with visual impairment, or pupils with hearing impairment or pupils with multi-sensory impairment (vision and hearing impairment)(pdf)
- Research Project: Telling it Like it is (families living on a low income with deaf children)
- The 'BSL Education' App now available
- VI Awareness Resource: My Story by Kathryn Robertson