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2008 EVENTS and REPORTS
Australia
Bendigo Silent Lunch
Please see the
invitation.
Scope,
Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
Silent Morning Tea
Ontario, Canada Ontario Federation for Cerebral Palsy On Wednesday October 22nd we commemorated AAC Awareness Month here at the OFCP. We chose to bring awareness to our staff by organizing a group presentation about ISAAC and what we learned at the conference. Our presentation was accompanied by a snack bar labeled with Bliss symbols.Presenters included four AAC users who attended the conference, an OFCP Planning Facilitator, conference presenters Shirley McNaughton and Paul Marshall, BCI’s Secretary/Treasurer Peter Lindsay and other support persons who attended the conference. We presented about AAC, ISAAC and what we learned and enjoyed while at the conference. The presentation included information about transitional living, aging, CP and loneliness, literacy and the Town Hall Meeting. In attendance we had approximately 20 OFCP staff members and clients including the Executive Director.Everyone enjoyed learning, seeing pictures and videos and we believe we helped them understand better the importance of AAC in our lives and in our larger personal and professional communities.
Dubai - Download full report here and View Photos!
Helsinki, Finland The Program will be
held on 6 October 2008 from 12:30 -15:00 at the Finnish
Parliament House View Program in English View Invitation in Finnish
France View report en Français
Francophone Report ISAAC
Francophone, comprised of French speaking members from France, Belgium and
Switzerland has actively promoted and participated in the International
Celebration of AAC Awareness. View the full report in English
here!
India
1, Event 1-MUMBAI Primarily this day was declared ‘Open Day’ for creating
AAC awareness among teachers of special schools, parents of special children
and trainees of Speech- Language Pathology and Special Education. On this event, different types of AAC systems and
communication boards were displayed and explained to the visitors. Films
depicting use of AAC systems by different clinical populations were
projected. Barsha’s Story which was selected as the best in the ISAAC
‘Many Stories, One Voice’ contest was read out by one of the interns. The
story touched everyone’s heart. During this event Spastic Society of India, Mumbai also
participated. This was attended by almost 120 students, teachers from
different schools and parents. 2, Event 2- Kolkatta Event
in the On this occasion, the Oxford Bookstore felicitated Miss Barsha Bhattacharya, who is a young woman with cerebral palsy and has severe physical and speech impairments. Barsha’s story was selected as the ‘winning submission’ in the ISAAC Many Stories, One Voice Contest. IICP’s other seven contributors who use AAC and whose stories were also submitted to the contest were present and their stories were also read out.
A large group of students
with their staff and parents from Barsha’s sensitive story
“The Undefeated” came alive with the reading by actor, Shahana Chatterjee
and movements by danseuse, Alokananda Roy. The
Kathakars, Mira &
Daleep Kakkar had the audience enthralled with their readings from Shradha &
Chandan’s poignant stories. Actor, Chaiti Ghoshal read Putul’s story that
touched everyone’s heart. Students from
As Diwali (one of the main
festival celebrated in
IICP
thanked Mrs. Maina Bhagat and her team at Oxford Bookstore and the Apeejay
Group for supporting & making this International AAC Week event such an
exclusive and joyous occasion.
(3)
Event 3- In southern More than 60 caregivers of clients with various speech,
language and hearing disorders, 70 undergraduate and postgraduate students
doing various courses in the field of speech and hearing and 20 faculty and
staff members visited the exhibition. They were oriented to the purpose,
means and materials used for AAC rehabilitation. Feedback forms were also
obtained from the visitors and the common opinion was that the event should
be conducted more frequently and for a larger population. (4) Event 4-Chennai
COUNTY DURHAM, United Kingdom A group of students from Durham Trinity School FE Unit, Haughall College, The Oaks at Spennymoor, and Broom Cottages Primary School at Ferryhill, are reading aloud their stories and poems from the 'Many Stories, One Voice' collection in libraries and schools around County Durham, using AAC and computer technology. Dates and times: Six individuals who use AAC started an AAC and
Literacy group in April. They have held around 20 story writing workshops in
libraries and
community colleges across the
county. Four in the group do not receive literacy instruction at school, and
they are all keen to improve their skills and would like to be accredited
for their work. They are meeting with an advisor from the Arts Council with
a view to receiving an Arts Award (equivalent to a GCSE) for their work on
the Many Stories,
One Voice project.
View their flyer!
Rotherham S Yorks United Kingdom
Phoenix, Arizona USA The Out and About group sponsored a Literacy Day in conjunction with the Carden Traditional School . Krista Howard (device user extraordinaire), Caroline Musselwhite and Jane Odom started off the event with a short inservice for the student council volunteers at the Carden Traditional School. We talked about different disabilities and got to play with devices hands on – courtesy of the Prentke Romich Company. When our device users arrived, the students were ready! We broke up into small groups, read stories together, got to know one another and ate a TON of pizza. We all had such a wonderful time. It was amazing that over 20 students at Carden volunteered to stay after school to participate with the event. VIEW FLYER! View Photos
Owego, NY USA Nick Warfle will be reading his Many Stories, One Voice story, along with a couple of others he has written. We will also be handing out laminated bookmarks that were downloaded from the website. VIEW FLYER!
North Carolina, USA
As a member of ISAAC (International Society Augmentative & Alternative Communication) and in support of October being AAC Awareness Month, Jessie Jackson (a junior at Watauga High School) donated a copy of Schuyler's Monster by Robert Rummel-Hudson to her school library this morning. The book is a true story about a young girl like Jessie that uses a Vantage Communication device (just like Jessie's) to let her thoughts be known. It is a wonderful story that I recommend highly that you all read, Schuyler's fight for a voice is very much like Jessie's own journey. There will be a write up about this event in local paper as well.
Virginia, USA
2008 Publicity Materials: Download the flyer and spread the word!
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