Greetings from Retina India! We invite you to the 1stSouth India Regional Conference on Inclusive Education to be organized by Retina India on November 26 at The Presidency College, Chennai.
Retina India is a registered national non-profit organization with a focus on helping people with visual impairment due to retinal diseases. It brings all stakeholders together on the same platform, which includes patients and their family members, retina specialists, low vision experts, genetic and other counselors, mobility specialists, etc. with a focus on making treatments available to Indian patients, while also helping them with social issues such as training and education. As one of our social objectives of promoting inclusive education for children with visual impairment, we are holding a one day regional conference that deals with means of identifying children with vision impairment, and valuable tips and tricks to work with these kids in promoting inclusive education. After promising success of a number of workshops in Bangalore, we are now joining hands with the teachers from AP, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala to help the process of inclusive education along, which will help set the focus on being visually impaired aside, and providing him/her the right stepping stone to succeed in life. The program is highly interactive, with the attendees being asked to share their views and thoughts, which will help the process of inclusive education easier to incorporate in mainstream schools. Experts will present valid and proven methods for teachers to understand the concept of dealing with children with visual impairment, through interactive and process oriented sessions, which will help make these kids become an effective part of classroom activities. The program is meant for the following: • All schools/education institutions in South India • Government officials in the field of Education in South India • Non-Governmental organizations (NGOs) working in the field of rehabilitation of the visually challenged • Role Models who have achieved success, who would like to share their experiences • Children with visual impairment • Parents of children with visual impairment • Companies with a strong focus on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Objectives: • Familiarizing teachers with visual impairment, low vision and progressive vision loss. • The social, economic and legal reasons for mainstreaming children with vision impairment. • Exposing teachers to technologies and teaching methodologies that had made inclusive education possible in the 21st century educational system. • The possible challenges of inclusion of children with retinal impairment and low vision and ways of handling them. • Adopting mainstream curriculum to teach children with visual challenges. • Creating a dialogue between teachers and experts in order to understand the limitations, doubts or concerns teachers may have in inclusion, and addressing all of them. • Creating a platform where teachers can continuously learn about various ways of including children with retinal impairments and propagate the same to their colleagues in the system. Date of the Conference:Saturday 26th November 2011 Time: 10.00 am to 5.00 p m Entry fee: Free Venue: The Presidency College, Chennai Contact: • R Srinivasan (Chennai) 94440 52635 • Rajesh Parakh (Chennai) 9543994910 • GirishVasanth (Bangalore) 98459 29738 • AkhileshMalani (Bangalore) 9620133716 • Srikant Kanuri (Hyderabad) 90300 00105 All interested stake holders are welcome!! Regards, Retina India Team G. Vamshi PH Res : +91 877-2243861 Mobile: +91 9949349497 E-mail ID: [email protected] Skype: gvamshi81 www.retinaindia.org >From darkness unto light Register for AccessIndia convention 2011(November 12-13) at: http://www.accessindia.org.in/harish/convention.htm Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe send a message to [email protected] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
