– PROGRAMME –
08:45 – 09:30 Registration
09:30 – 10:00 Opening ceremony
10:00 – 10:30 1st SECTION: LOST IN TRANSLATION
10:00 – 10:15 Children have rights, we have responsibility! (Renata Gubić, Foundation Croatia for Children)
10:15 – 10:30 Article 24 – the Convention on the Rights of persons with Disabilities (Darja Pajk, European Federation of Hard of Hearing people)
10:30 – 12:10 2nd SECTION: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION MYSTERY – SIGN LANGUAGE, SPOKEN LANGUAGE OR BOTH?
10:30 – 11:10 Plenary lecture: Deaf children mastering language – what’s the secret? (Iva Hrastinski, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb)
11:10 – 11:25 Supporting Parents in Social Interactive Play with their Deafblind Child (Jette Hunsperger, Swiss Foundation for People with Deafblindess)
11:25 – 11: 40 The effects of language deprivation on deaf children’s cognition and literacy (Tomislav Radošević, Iva Hrastinski and Marina Milković, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb)
11:40 – 11:55 Why natural sign language and not signed systems? – The negative impact of modality interactions(Marina Milković, Iva Hrastinski and Tomislav Radošević, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Zagreb)
11:55 – 12:10 Sign langauge and communication through pictures can go together! (Karolina Blagović Perčić, Martina Vrbanec, Valentina Mezdić Krajner and Ivančica Treska, MURID – Early Intervention Center)
12:10 – 13:40 Lunch break
13:40 – 14:50 3rd SECTION: I WANT TO HEAR GAME TOO!
13:40 – 14:20 Plenarny lecture: I Want to Hear Us Playing too / Sign Language Interpreting in Preschool – a Priority of Inclusive Education for Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deafblind Children (Sanja Tarczay, Croatian Association of Deafblind Persons Dodir and Morena Šuk, Primary school Oroslavje)
14:20 – 14:35 Steps towards Inclusion of a Deaf Child in Kindergarten – an Account on a Good Practice (Sanja Jozić, Rebeka Kukolja – Cicmanović and Jasna Šimpraga, Kindergarten ‘’Gajnice’’)
14:35 – 14:50 Satisfaction of the Croatian sign language interpreters and parents of the deaf, hard of hearing and deafblind children in education system (Sara Frey, Croatian Association of Deafblind Persons Dodir)
14:50 – 15:05 Coffee break
15:05 – 16:45 4th SECTION: INCLUSIVE SCHOOL FOR ALL?
15:05 – 15:45 Plenary lecture: Sign language interpreter in inclusive education: best practices around Europe ( Maya de Wit, the Radboud University, the Netherlands)
15:45 – 16:00 Experience of sign language interpreters who interpret for deaf and deafblind children in primary and secondary schools ( Petra Kuzele, Croatian Association of Deafblind Persons Dodir)
16:00 – 16:15 Prerequisites for the development of successful inclusion of deaf pupils in regular classes (Luka Pongračić, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Ana Maria Marinac, Faculty of Education, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek and Tea Čarapović, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek)
16:15 – 16:30 Inclusive schooling paving the road to higher education (Christiane Hohenstein and Larysa Zavgorodnia, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, School of Applied Linguistics)
16:00 – 16:45 Deafness, giftedness and sign language (Vesna Ivasović, Education and Teacher Training Agency)
16:45 – 17:00 Closing ceremony