The Fifth Biennial Conference
Getting in Touch with Literacy Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November 8-11, 2001
Wyndham Franklin Plaza Hotel
Call for Papers or Posters
The following are topics, which will be addressed in concurrent and/or poster sessions, relevant to literacy for people who are blind or visually impaired. Sessions may consist of research reports, panel discussions, hands-on demonstrations or round table discussions.
Proposals for sessions or posters need to address at least one of the many aspects of literacy as listed below:
- All aspects of literacy
- All types of access – braille, print and auditory
- All age ranges of consumers/readers
- All skill levels, i.e. pre-literacy, emergent, functional, advanced
- Assessment, instruction and support structures
- Functional literacy, i.e. school, workplace and community
- Writing
- Adventitious and congenital visual impairment issues
- Issues relating to additional learning needs
- Issues relating to additional disabilities
- Literacy and the family
- Technology
- Materials production changes/updates
For each
submission, please indicate the following on a separate sheet of paper:
1. Whether the submission is for a concurrent presentation session or poster session. Both will be approximately one and a half (1½) hours in length.
2. Title of presentation or poster:
3. Presenter(s):
4. Address(es):
5. Affiliation(s):
6. Phone Numbers: (Indicate day and evening, please)
7. Fax Number:
8. Email address:
9. A One (1) page abstract of the paper or poster.
Please submit the
above information by November 17, 2000 to:
Debby Holzapfel, GTLC Program Chair
Western Instructional Support Center
5347 William Flynn Highway
Gibsonia, PA 15044
Phone: 724 443 7821
Fax: 724 443 1310
Email: holzapfel@wisc.org
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