VI International typhlo forum “Development, education and rehabilitation of people with visual impairments: today's challenges and innovations”
An event that will bring together representatives of educational and rehabilitation centers, scientists, typhlopedagogues (teachers of the visually impaired), specialists of special educational institutions, rehabilitation professionals, public organizations, charitable foundations and everyone who works with children and adults with visual impairments. It is a platform for discussing current needs and for exchanging experience and innovative tools for the rehabilitation, adaptation and socialization of adults and children, military personnel and civilians, who have lost
An event that will bring together representatives of educational and rehabilitation centers, scientists, typhlopedagogues (teachers of the visually impaired), specialists of special educational institutions, rehabilitation professionals, public organizations, charitable foundations and everyone who works with children and adults with visual impairments.
It is a platform for discussing current needs and for exchanging experience and innovative tools for the rehabilitation, adaptation and socialization of adults and children, military personnel and civilians, who have lost their sight as a result of hostilities in Ukraine.
November 12, 2024
Location: Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture
Address: Kyiv, 31 Povitrianykh Syl Avenue
The forum program includes:
- Training, rehabilitation and adaptation of military personnel who have sustained visual impairments as a result of combat operations.
- Psychological and pedagogical 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
Location: Educational and rehabilitation center “TRINITY HUB”
Address: Kyiv, 25 Kioto Street
The forum program includes:
- Activating opportunities: challenges and innovations in the education and rehabilitation of people with visual impairments in Ukraine and around the world.
- Innovative approaches in working with children with visual impairments.
- Educational strategies for children with visual impairments in the face of today's challenges.
- Strategic directions of development of the all-Ukrainian public organization “Association of Typhlopedagogues of Ukraine”.
Round table “Experience and innovations in the rehabilitation of people with visual impairments”:
- discussion of experience, problems, achievements and innovations in the rehabilitation of civilians and military personnel who have lost their sight;
- presentation of didactic tools in this area;
- presentation of the project “Primer for Adults” – a book and didactic material in universal design that combines Braille and enlarged flat-print type.
- Forum organizers: Association of DIIE (“Acting”) Psychologists of Ukraine; Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture; educational and rehabilitation center “TRINITY HUB”; International charitable foundation “Health of the Future”
Partners:
- All-Ukrainian Association of Typhlopedagogues of Ukraine
- Faculty of Special and inclusive education of Mykhailo Drahomanov Ukrainian State University
- Department of Psychology of the Educational and Scientific Institute of Law and Psychology of the National Academy of Internal Affairs of Ukraine
- Veterans Cluster of Ukraine
- Institute for Reintegration, Rehabilitation and Professional Development of Veterans “Architecture of Resilience” of KNUBA
Application for participation – https://docs.google.com/file/d/1VxgTpCWsaVwrA_8fuquQtr5UmE7Q69f4/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msword
Charitable contribution from participants
Exhibition zone with innovative products
Collection of abstracts and papers
Organizing committee: 066 252 82 77 Antonii