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Let’s Bring the Elephant into the Room!
Reshaping the Inclusive Environment in Further & Higher Education
March 20th & 21st 2018 | Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin
You know the old phrase ‘the elephant This event aims to bring the elephants
in the room’? ...the big thing staring into the room and talk about them.
everyone in the face that nobody finds it
easy to talk about? The Biggest Elephants
The 4 elephants we’ll be examing closely
As we change our focus from an add-on
at this event are:
individual model of disability support
towards a more inclusive cross-campus
approach, this conference will explore
UDL - Whose Job Is It?
- in the change to a UDL
the challenges of this strategic move and
model, who does what?
examine best practice approaches on the
institution, faculty and student support
levels. How can we ensure that we
Student Resilience
- as pressure on services
manage the transition to a more inclusive
rises, how can we promote
campus while maintaining support
resilience & performance?
services which remain an essential part
of a successful college experience for
Diagnostic Tools
many students with disabilities? How
- do we need them and
will the roles of faculty and support
should we use them?
staff evolve to meet the demands
of a universally designed learning
environment? How can we ensure that Student Success
non-classroom activities like social - what is success and are we
experiences, work placement and study setting our students up for it?
abroad are also universally designed?
Fees More Info
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ahead.ie/conference2018-sponsorship.Let’s Bring the Elephant into the Room!
Reshaping the Inclusive Environment in Further & Higher Education
March 20th & 21st 2018 | Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin
Draft Schedule - Day1
10:15 Registration Opens
11:15 Welcome and Introduction
Prof. Michael Shevlin (Chair of the Board of AHEAD)
Opening Remarks
Dr. Graham Love (CEO, Higher Education Authority)
Launch of 'The Role of the Disability Officer and the Disability Service in Higher
Education in Ireland'
Patricia McCarthy, (Associate Researcher, Trinity College Dublin)
Elephant #1 - UDL: Whose Job Is It? - in the change to a UDL model, who does what?
Frederic Fovet (University of Prince Edward Island)
13:00 Lunch
Breakout Session 1 - Choose Your Path (no switching mid session please!)
Main Hall Green Room Blue Room
14:00 The Proof is in the The top-down / bottom-up Disability Officer – what
Pudding- The Necessity interaction between cross- is the future?
of Impact Measurement campus UDL initiative and Mary Quirke (AHEAD),
when Supporting Disabled individual support services. Patricia McCarthy & Declan
Students in HE Dr.Shira Yalon-Chamovitz & Treanor (Trinity College
Neta Linder-Katz (Ono Academic Dublin)
Mr. Atif Choudhury (Diversity
and Ability) & John Harding College)
(University of Cambridge)
14:30 Mainstreaming and Developing inclusive How implementing
Inclusion: University for all practice - A Strategic Universal Design for
Dr. Anna Kelly & Dr. Lisa Padden Approach Learning principles
(University College Dublin) Ian Carter (University of within a Teaching
Brighton) for Understanding
pedagogical framework
can provide the tools
necessary to critically
research record and
reflect upon UDL success
Dr. Marian McCarthy & Dr.
Brian Butler (University
College Cork)
15:00 Move to Main HallLet’s Bring the Elephant into the Room!
Reshaping the Inclusive Environment in Further & Higher Education
March 20th & 21st 2018 | Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin
Draft Schedule - Day 1 Cont...
Elephant #2 - Student Resilience - as pressure on services rises, how can we promote
resilience & performance?
Prof. Shane O’Mara (Director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience)
16:00 Tea/Coffee Break
Breakout Session 1 - Choose Your Path (no switching mid session please!)
Main Hall Green Room Blue Room
16:30 Inclusive Learning and the Executive Functioning and Students and Graduates:
Provision of Reasonable Learning Strategies for What worries them?
Accommodations: Students Third Level Aoife Price (Union of
Experiencing Mental Health Helen Carroll (Dublin Institute of Students in Ireland) &
Difficulties Technology) Hannah Kelly (AHEAD)
Kieran Lewis & Declan Treanor
(Trinity College Dublin)
17:00 Mindfulness + Reflection = The Science of Happiness: Reshaping Education
Engagement Positive Psychology in and the Rise of
Alexis Reid (Boston Child Study International Student Graduate Attributes:
Center) Guidance and Counselling How can students with
Frank Haber (Jacobs University disabilities be included?
Bremen) Dr. Declan Reilly (Trinity
College Dublin)
17:30 -
20:30 Evening Reception - Let’s all go to the circus!Let’s Bring the Elephant into the Room!
Reshaping the Inclusive Environment in Further & Higher Education
March 20th & 21st 2018 | Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin
Draft Schedule - Day2
08:50 Registration (New Arrivals Only), Tea & Coffee
09:25 Move Straight to Breakouts
Breakout Session 3 - Choose Your Path (no switching mid session please!)
Main Hall Green Room Blue Room
09:30 “What about the dog in Transforming vision Moving towards
the room?” – The role of into useful policy for inclusion and universal
the disability service in all students in higher design: The evolution of
supporting students who education an accessible module
wish to attend college Judith Jansen & Evelien Michael Mc Mahon &
accompanied by a support Westerbeek van Eerten (Expert Catherine O Donoghue
animal Centre handicap + studie) (Athlone Institute of
Technology)
Julie Tonge (University College
Dublin)
10:00 Precarious spaces or the Enough is enough! What Exploring the Cultural
trouble with ‘normal’ in should professional Mosaic: the inclusion
Higher Education: Finding a assessment of dyslexia for of students with
theoretical approach students in HE look like? disabilities in Bethlehem
Dr. Malin Ekström (Uppsala Michelle Kinsella & Donald University’
University) Ewing (Dyslexia Association of Mai Jaber (Bethlehem
Ireland) University)
10:30 Move to Main Hall
10:40 Elephant #3 - Diagnostic Tools - do we need them and should we use them?
Paddy Turner (Sheffield Hallam University and NADP)
11:30 Tea/CoffeeLet’s Bring the Elephant into the Room!
Reshaping the Inclusive Environment in Further & Higher Education
March 20th & 21st 2018 | Croke Park Conference Centre, Dublin
Draft Schedule - Day2 Cont...
11:55 Move to Breakouts
Breakout Session 3 - Choose Your Path (no switching mid session please!)
Main Hall Green Room Blue Room
12:00 Active Inclusion in FET in Digital Inclusion or GDPR: What are your
Ireland – From Policy to Exclusion? Challenging responsibilities under
Practice through Universal Assumptions of the new data protection
Design in Education Accessibility within Online law?
Rory O’Sullivan (Killester College Business Studies Jennifer Ryan (Trinity College
of Further Education) Miriam Edwards (University of Dublin)
Melbourne)
12:30 CETB Pilot: UDL in Further EMASI Project: Enhancing Will College Get Me a
Education Mobility of Access Job?
Liz Moynihan (Cork ETB) Students Ireland Anne Feehily (Employment
Sinéad Lucey (Irish Universities Response North West)
Association)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Elephant #4 - Student Success - what is success and are we setting our students up for
it?
Annie Hoey (Former President of the Union of Students in Ireland)
15:00 Key Conference Themes Reviewed
15:30 Close
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