Improve Access to Education for Pupils with Disabilities (SEED, October 2002): Focus on Visual Impairment and Hearing Impairment
Presented in January, 2003
Programme
- 10 am Introduction to the day
- 1.45 pm Disability Discrimination Act
- 3.15 pm Workshops: Creating Accessibility Strategies:
- Group 2: The Physical Environment
10.30 am Background to the publication of Let Me Read it!
10.45 am Alternative formats for pupils with visual impairment
11.00 am Planning and support for accessible information
11.50 am In-house technology solutions
12.15 pm Daisy demonstration
Group 1: Curriculum and Assessment
Group 3: Communication
3.45 pm Feedback from Workshops
4 pm Evaluation and Finish
Presenters and Workshop Tutors:
Dr Mary Brennan, SSC
Neil Todd, RNIB
Jamie Cuthbertson, RNIB
Jo Fullerton, RNIB
Lilian Lawson, SCoD
Publications
Jamie Cuthbertson, Jo Fullerton and Neil Todd (2002) Let me read it!
Royal National Institute of the Blind, Scotland
Scottish Association of Sign Language Interpreters (2002) Creating Linguistic
Access for Deaf and Deafblind People: A Strategy for Scotland