Dear all
With apologies for cross posting.
I would like to draw colleagues
attention below to the latest information
concerning this years NADO Annual conference.
Any enquiries and/or applications to attend conference should be sent to [log in to unmask]
Many thanks
James
NADO ANNUAL CONFERENCE
AND AGM 2005
UNIVERSITY OF
BEYOND
COMPLIANCE
10:00 –
10.45
Registration and Coffee – Ramphal Foyer
Suppliers
Showcase will be running from 10.00 am until 5.30 pm in the
10:45 –
10.55
Lecture
Theatre
Welcome by the
Chair – Dr James Palfreman-Kay
10.55 –
11.00
Opening Address by Kate Dodd, Director of
Student and Ancillary Services,
11:00 –
12.00
Awaiting Title – Professor Alan Hurst,
12.00 –
1.00
Lunch – Ramphal Foyer and Suppliers
Showcase
Conference - Day 1 -
Afternoon Session
1.00 –
2.00
Workshop Session 1 -
Workshop
1:
Learning Support Programme within FE –
Innovative Programming to enhance Support -
Workshop 2:
Awaiting
Title - Dr
Barbara Newland,
Workshop
3:
Creating Accessible Resources for Staff: Improving Disabled Student Learning
Experiences - Robin Stenham,
Project Manager and Chair of Project Team – CATER (Centre for
Assistive Technology and Enabling Research).
Workshop
4:
Awaiting Title (Dyscalculia) - Jane
Jolliffe, Dyslexia Support Tutor,
Workshop
5:
Supporting, mainstreaming and recognising
specialism - Alison Robinson, Higher Education Academy (
2.15 –
3.30
Annual General
Meeting for NADO Members
Suppliers Showcase will be available for
non-members
3.30–
4.00
Tea/coffee break Ramphal Foyer with a
demonstration by one of our Suppliers
4.00 –
5.00
Workshop Session 2 –
Workshop
6:
Awaiting Title (Additional Support Funding) - Wayne Tomlinson,
KPMG
Workshop
7:
Awaiting Title (Changes
in Sector) - Ruth Thei, Higher Education Funding Council
Workshop
8:
Involving
disabled people in the development of your Institution’s disability equality
scheme: taking the first steps - Dr Caroline Davies
Workshop
9:
Online
Staff Development for Disability Officers, Dr Phil Gravestock, Projects
and Development Manager, Centre for Learning and Teaching,
Suppliers
Showcase will be open until 5.30.
Conference
Dinner
7:30 –
8.00
Pre-Dinner Drinks – Panorama
Suite
8.00
Conference Dinner – Panorama Suite with time at leisure to
follow in the Bar
Conference
Day 2 - Morning Session
7.30 –
9.00
Breakfast for residential delegates– Rootes Restaurant, First Floor,
Suppliers
Showcase will be running from 09.00 am until 4.30 pm in the Ramphal
Building
9.15 –
10.00
Awaiting Title. Mike Adams, National
Disability Team.
10.00 –
10.30
Coffee break – Ramphal Foyer and demonstration by one of our
suppliers
10.30 –
11.30:
Workshop Session 3 –
Workshop
10:
What does the
Disabilty Equality Duty actually mean for Disability
Practitioners
–
Ruth Thei - Higher Education Funding
Council; Mike Adams - National Disability Team; Kate Goddard - Skill; Liz
Sutherland, - Equality Challenge Unit Age and Disability Officer; Dr James
Palfreman-Kay - Manager Additional Learning Needs Service, Bournemouth
University and Chair of NADO.
Workshop
11:
Neurodiversity: issues for student support – Dr. David Pollock, Principle Lecturer De
Montford University.
Workshop
12:
FE Funding and Aspects of Widening Participation: an opportunity to share,
explore and work together on these issues.
Workshop
13:
Awaiting Title (HE and Support Workers)
–
Karen Robson,
Disability Co-Ordinator,
Workshop
14:
Demonstration by 1. Stereotype: New
Opportunities – Stereotype Electronic Note-taker Training
2. Sight and sound technology.
(
11.45 –
12.45
The New Legal Framework: The Disability Discrimination Act 2005
– Bettina Rigg – Bond Pearce
Solicitors
12:45
- 2.00:
Lunch – Ramphal Foyer and Suppliers
Showcase
Conference - Day 2
- Afternoon Session
2.30
3.00
CAU - QAG The early years, Tony
Hughes, Central Administration Unit (CAU) Manager - Quality Assurance Group
(QAG) and Judith Archer, Chair – Quality Assurance Group
(QAG)
3.15 –
4.15
Workshop Session 4
Workshop
15:
Problems – Whose
Problems: Knotty issues in disability equality and the impact of the disability
equality duty - Dianne Keetch, Disability Rights
Commission.
Workshop
16:
Duty of Care, Confidentiality and Disclosure – Bettina Rigg, Bond Pearce
Solicitors
Workshop
17:
Facilitating Inclusive Education Through Assessment Change - Judith
Waterfield, Head of Disability Assist Services,
Workshop
18:
Awaiting Title (Supporting Students with Asperger’s Syndrome) -
Gail
Gardiner,
Workshop
19:
Demonstration by Suppliers: 1. Bookchair
(
4:15
Tea and Close – Ramphal
Foyer
Manager, Additional Learning Needs Service
Chair of
NADO
Learning Support
Talbot Campus
Fern Barrow
Poole
Dorset
BH12 5BB
Tel: 01202
965327
Fax:
01202 965844
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