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David Colven
Technical Advisor
>Date: Tue, 21 Oct 1997 00:14:48 +0200
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>From: Roberto Mancin <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [AAATE:40] university, disability, science, tecnology in Italy
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>Hi AAATE
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>My name is Roberto Mancin and I'm a disability and computer specialist,
>working at Padua University (Italy)
>
>I'd like to inform you about the workshop we are now preparing: it will be
>a round table placed in a big national event, focusing together subjects
>such as: university, disability, science and tecnology.
>
>It's the first time that we have in Italy an official conference about this
>matter. I'm very happy and honored to have been called to work at it. It
>shows that the huge work of information started in some Italian
>Universities, among which Padua, is now giving results.
>
>Every speaker is an university professor or a specialist who has a great
>experience in the matter and is also very hardly involved with the support
>of the rights of Italian students affected by disabilities.
>
>In the following text I send you the agenda of this conference that will be
>held in Bologna (5-9 november 1997) as a special section of the Fifth National
>Meeting about Informatics, Didatics and Disability
>(IDD'97 - http://www.area.fi.cnr.it/idd97.htm)
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>UNIVERSITY AND DISABILITY CULTURE
>E. Arslan: Dept. of Audiology and Phoniatric, University of Padova
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>ABSTRACT
>People with a disability represent an important portion of our society,
>even from a simply statistic point of view. To assure them equal
>opportunities along their life is not only a constitutional duty, but also a
>mean to gain to the community important contributions that are now missed.
>The foundation of a new disability culture must start from the school, and
>develop accordingly in the Universities, where people grow both professionally
>and socially, and where intense social relations are lived. With this
>target in mind, the University of Padova has been working for some years
>to ensure effective rights to students with a disability, through the
>creation of several attention groups suche as a special Committee, an Office
>which coordinates the work of employed staff and of volunteers, and a
>interdepartmental Center which wants to grant the access to cultural and
>scientific resources of the University for persons with disabilities.
>
>
>THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION: BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES
>C. OFFELLI: Dept. of Electronics and Information Tecnology, University of
>Padova
>
>ABSTRACT
>The usage of the new multimedia technology in university courses may lead to
>interesting opportunities for most students, but may raise further barriers
>to those with sensorial disabilities. It is however possible to properly
>adjust the new techniques as to offer everybody more sharp and effective
>educational means.
>
>
>INTERNET AND MULTIMEDIA : TOWARDS UNIVERSAL ACCESSIBILITY
>R. Mancin, F. Sartoretto: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Venezia
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>ABSTRACT
>Nowadays technologies let us manage big amounts of data in different layouts.
>There are so new and important information and communication's outlooks,
>that can radically change the society and consequently also the university
>world. By these huge possibilities of innovation and didactics improvement
>there is also the risk that new barriers may rise for those students who have
>particular needings.
>This risk can be avoided by making the present informatic instrumets
>accessible through the adaptive technology and by designing the future tools
>with universal design criteria. Every improvement in the informations'
>accessibility will result into advantages to all students, not only to
>the disabled ones.
>
>
>BLINDNESS AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SCIENTIFIC AND MATHEMATICAL RESOURCES
>M. Zattera, G. Artico: Dept. of applied and pure math, University of Padova
>
>ABSTRACT
>In communicating mathematical concepts, the main carrier of information is
>writing, since knowledge is commonly expressed through notations, often
>complex and rich in conventions, which must be perceived with absolute
>precision. For this reason, visually impaired people always met heavy trouble
>in approaching scientific topics, which inevitably have their basis on
>mathematics. Modern technology offers the opportunity of performing some
>enhancements also in this field, at least from some points of view. However,
>there is still a long way to go in providing the blind with a reasonable
>independence in manipulating mathematics. The software "TeX", the main
>typesetting system used by most mathematicians throughout the world, has a
>fundamental quality: it is accessible by means of the standard peripherals
>(speech and Braille devices) used by blind subjects. In fact, any formula,
>even if very complex, is translated into a linear sequence of alphanumeric
>signs and punctuation marks. A better interaction with formulas written in
>TeX language is provided to blind users by "TeSI". This software package has
>the ability of splitting a mathematical formula into its elements and of
>expressing it in spoken form, taking in account the spatial relations
>present in the usual
>graphic display. Future developments of TeSI might allow interesting
>applications at all levels of scholastic education.
>
>
>DEAFNESS AND EXPLOITATION OF THE DIDACTIC RESOURCES OF THE UNIVERSITY
>M. De Gasperi - Italian Sign Language (LIS) interpreting service,
>University of Padova
>
>ABSTRACT
>In this article, a three-year experience is presented of interpreting
>service at the University of Padova. In particular, some peculiar
>aspects are discussed concerning the intrinsic difficulties in the use
>of LIS: in particular, LIS shows serious lack in the scientific
>field, it is not used by all the deaf, and only a few interpreters have
>specific expertise on the topics which they have to translate.
>The situation is even different for students having difficulties in
>both the speech expression and the thought elaboration: it is possible
>to ease the difficulties of these students by realizing subtitled
>videotapes of the lectures by the various teachers in the classroom.
>In this way, by exploiting the tapes and the interpreter at the same
>time, even the hearing impaired student with language impairment could
>understand and learn more properly the argument at issue.
>Besides these problems, it must be also taken into account those
>concerned with the sole speech expression, namely, the vocalization:
>this aspect has drawn particular attention and it has been partially
>solved in many european universities by means of informatic aids.
>On the basis of the presented experience, some aspects and some
>intervention strategies are also discussed, with the aim to define
>effective operating methodologies.
>
>
>TELECOMMUNICATIONS AS A WORK TOOL FOR RESEARCHERS WITH MOTOR DISABILITIES
>S. FERLUGA: Department of Astronomy, University of Trieste
>
>ABSTRACT
>Nowadays a researcher with motor disability may still encounter big troubles
>when operating in a scientific site, for several reasons of practical and
>logistic kind (such as access to basic structures: Libraries, Workplaces,
>Laboratories). Progress in telecommunications may then supply to similar
>constraints, putting the reaserchers with disability in a more and more
>similar condition to their colleagues.
>
>
>Regards
>
>Roberto
>
>--
>Mancin Roberto
>Handicap and Disability Committee - University of Padova
>Riviera Tito Livio, 6 - Palazzo Storione - Aula A
>Padova - ITALY
>Tel. +39-49-8273043
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>http://www.unipd.it/cdh/
>ftp://ux1.unipd.it/pub/disability/00index.htm
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> There are no individuals with disabilities in cyberspace :-)
> the problem is to enter in it :-(
>
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