Date: Thursday Sept 25th

Time: 9.30-12.30

Venue: Trinity College Dublin, Arts Block, Room 3105, College Green, Dublin 2

http://www.tcd.ie/Maps/map.php?q=arts%20building

 

Presenters

Dr. Esther Murphy

Rachel Hewett

Dr. Mark Magennis

Ann Heelan

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Information about the seminar

This seminar is a follow on initiative from a collaborative workshop between NCBI Centre for Inclusive Technology and TCD’s School of Education to discuss digital inclusion challenges for VI students access to HE and FE.

While digital inclusion was the first workshop’s central theme, on the day several other critical access barriers were identified including; “students’ sense of “having to fight for everything”, “lack of expectations, down-grading maths options-managing expectations” and the “need for information on college very early on even at primary school”

The aim of running this seminar is to continue raising awareness of this under-researched area with the goal of bringing together all key stakeholders and on this occasion hearing directly from young senior cycle students and F√©ach, the parent association for visually impaired children. In addition, we would like to widen the debate to hear from the University of Birmingham‚Äôs School of Education VICTAR center’s research findings from their large longitudinal study RNIB supported Transitions Project.

The key question is how can we move from the recognition of digital and other critical access barriers to devising strategies to overcome them?

 

•          Raise awareness of higher/further education digital and other access challenges for VI students
•          Share all stakeholder experiences especially VI students own access experiences
Identify key components for successful transition
•          Identify good access practices among stakeholders and mechanisms for sharing them nationwide
•          Gain an accurate sense of precisely where and what action is needed in especially for less connected students
•          Collaborate on an action plan for implementing access enablers to include appropriate policy actions

Contact people

Dr Esther Murphy

esther.murphy@ncbi.ie

Ann Heelan

ann.heelan@ahead.ie