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Programme
DETAILS OF KEYNOTE & WORKSHOPS
| Time |
Session |
Title of Keynote / Plenary / Workshop (& Synopsis) |
| 09:10 - 09:40 |
Opening Address |
MR PHENNY KAKAMA, Senior Child Protection Specialist, UNICEF |
| 09:40 - 10:30 |
Keynote Address |
Dr. Wong Meng Ee, Assistant Professor,
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NIE/NTU), Singapore
Inclusion in Progress: Working Towards Inclusive Schools
While inclusion is generally an accepted principle, countries around the world experience major challenges in including children with disabilities in education. This presentation will highlight what research tells us how we understand inclusion. From the apparent confusion in inclusion, this presentation will propose a framework and attempt to offer a few suggestions as we work towards building inclusive school. |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Tea |
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| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Workshops |
WS 1A - 3A running concurrently |
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WS 1A |
Dr. Thana Luxshme Thaver, Senior Lecturer,
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NIE/NTU), Singapore
An introduction to Curriculum and Instructional Diffentiation
This introductory workshop will first help participants understand the principles of differentiated instruction. It then will introduce participants to a framework for differentiating and adapting curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of diverse learners. Opportunities will be given to participants to apply their understanding of this framework in hands-on activities. |
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WS 2A |
Dr. Wong Meng Ee, Assistant Professor,
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NIE/NTU), Singapore
Assistive Technology Everywhere: Some Guidelines Towards Choice-Making
With increasing number of assistive technology devices available to meet different disabilities, how are parents, teachers, stakeholders and individuals with disabilities themselves selecting appropriate assistive technology for their son/daughter/student or themselves? This workshop introduces assistive technology and a framework to help caregivers and individuals consider fundamental points to help make more informed decisions and reduce the challenge in what may otherwise by confusing to the myriad of devices and products available in the market. |
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WS 3A |
Dr. Chia Kok Hwee, Associate Professor,
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NIE/NTU), Singapore
Learning Disabilities: From Operating Definition to Operational Application
This is a workshop presentation with participation from the audience. The workshop speaker will cover the following learning disabilities: dyslexia, dyspraxia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia with a special mention of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Each of the operating definitions for these four learning disabilities and ASD will be examined under the categorization of four types of symptoms: primary/core, correlated, secondary and artifactual. From these symptoms, the audience will learn to understand the manifestation of learning and behavioral challenges of each of these learning disabilities. In addition, the audience will learn how to provide targeted intervention via operational application to address these symptoms basing on the given operating definitions. |
| 12:30- 13:30 |
Lunch |
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| 13:30 - 14:30 |
Plenary Talk |
Dr. Jude Chua Soo Meng, Associate Professor (Sub-Dean, Research Degrees),
National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NIE/NTU), Singapore
When Persons with Special Needs Really Aren't Very Special: Leaving Homo Economicus Behind and Getting Everyone What We All Equally Deserve
The Philosopher Aristotle once said that, a little error in the beginning leads to a distortion of massive proportions in the end. He had geometry in mind when he said that. I believe that that warning holds true, for philosophical anthropology. Particularly, when we think falsely about the human being in terms of the homo economicus (the economic man), and then extend those errors by way of their implications in social and educational arenas. What we think about the creature that we are, can have all kinds of implications for how we treat it, and how we think it deserves to be so treated, or not at all. In this seminar, I want to reflect on the likely theoretical and social conditions that could have distorted our vision of what and who man is, and how that leads us to think of persons with special needs as a special category, deserving special treatment. I want to argue that they don't. I will end off with exploratory practical suggestions for how we can secure the standard treatment that persons with special needs deserve. |
| 14:30 - 16:00 |
Workshops |
WS 1B - 3B running concurrenty (as in 1A - 3A above) |
| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Closing |
Performance by the young adults from The Salvation Army Melaka |
| 17:00 - 17:30 |
Tea |
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