SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
Wednesday, May 2
17:00-19:00 Registration
Thursday, May 3
08:00-09:00 Registration
09:00-10:00 Opening Ceremony
Topics: Deaf Culture; Sign Language Status; Interpreters
Room 1
Plenary
Chair: Christian Stalzer, Sanja Tarczay
10:00-10:45 Paddy Ladd: Why is Deaf Culture Important?
10:45-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:45 Linda Lupton: Whay Don’t My Students Sign Like Deaf People?
Suggestions for Sign Language Curriculum Development
11:45-12:00 Discussion
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Topic: Social and Cultural Aspects of Deaf and Deafblind Community
Room 1
Short presentations
Chair: Christopher Miller, Isabel Amaral
13:30-13:50 Christian Stalzer: The Social Aspect of the Deaf Community in Styria
¸ – Evaluation Method by Interview and Questionnaire
13:50-14:10 Meri Moederndorfer: It is a Difficult Journey to the Emancipation of
the Deaf
14:10-14:30 Johannes Felinger, Riinette Askgaard: Quality of Life and Deafness
14:30-14:50 Alena Macurova: “Our” vs. “Their” Language: the Problems of Cross-
Cultural Understanding
14:50-15:00 Discussion
Topics: Social Aspects of Deaf Community; Sign Language
Room 2
Short Presentations
Chair: William Green, Ljubica Podboršek
13:30-13:50 Bojana Globačnik: Sign Language in Slovenia
13:50-14:10 Pat Sulistyawati: Problems of Sign Language in Indonesia II
14:10-14:30 Zora Jačova: Sign Language in Macedonia
14:30-14:50 Marina Karneluti: One Way of Help People With Hearing and Visual
Impairements
14:50-15:00 Discussion
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
Room 1
Poster session
15:30-17:00
- Ninoslava Šarac, Tamara Alibašić: Researching Croatian Sign Language Structure
- Tamara Alibašić, Ninoslava Šarac: The Importance of Body Leans in Croatian Sign Language
- Oleksandr Woloshynskyy, Ljubica Pribanić: Sports Activites of Deaf Children in Lviv – Ukraina
- Maria Pilar Fernandez-Viader, Josep Segimon: Acquisition of the First Handshape in Native LSC Signers
- Maria Pilar Fernandez-Viader: The Patterns of Communicative Interaction in Families With Deaf Children. Homogeneous Diyads and Heterogeneus Diyads
- Imma Codorniu, Marija Pilar Fernandez-Viader: The Metaphoric Visual Meaning in Two Sign Languages: Catalan Sign Language (LSC) and Spanish Sign Language (LSE)
- Maria Pilar Fernandez-Viader, Esther Pertusa, Maria Virginia Yarza: Special Help When Deaf Learners are Taught Writing Skills. Educative Influence Mechanisms
- Maria Pilar Fernandez-Viader, Sandra Colell Pinell, Nuria Reig Gracia, Elisenda Gol l Busquet: Esplai GEMIS: Communication Project. An Experience of Attention to Diversity in Free Time. Researches and Innovative Experiences in the Community
- Blaženka Brozović: Linguistic Skills of Hard-of-Hearing and Deaf Subjects Habilitated by Oral Method
- Maja Fleischer:
- Verica Krajnović, Jadranka Bačurin, Mirjana Dobrojević, Marina Robotić: Didactic material “Estimation and stimulation of motoric, perception and speech abilities”
- Marina Robotić, Tomislav Robotić: Model of on-line Internet course (distance learning)
- Ana Popović: “Looking for the Right Way” – Working With a DeafBlind Girl
14. Claudia Cvečić, Gordana Sušnik: Working With a DeafBlind Girl
Topic: Interpreters
Room 2
Short Presentations
Chair: Paddy Ladd, Ila Parasnis
15:30-15:50 William Green: The deafblind population
15:50-16:10 Mieke Van Herreweghe: Differences in Turn-Taking Mechanisms
Between All-Sign Meetings and Meetings With Sign Language
Interputer in Flanders, Belgium
16:10-16:30 Ljubica Podboršek: Interpreting in Education System
16:30-16:50 Noel Traynor, Gary Quinn: Real Access to Information?: Interpreting
for Deaf Residents With Minimal Language Skills
16:50-17:00 Discasion
Room 1
Workshop
17:00-18:00 Isolte Avila, Finn Barlow, David Bower, Dave Praties, Wayne
Sharples, Stuart Sinclair (Common Ground Sign Dance Theatre):
Community Arts
Room 2
Workshop
17:00-18:00 Vesna Ivasović, Tvrtko Maras, Lidija Andrijević, Tereza Szavai:
World of Fairytales: Software for Developing Functional and Emotional
Literacy Skills in Deaf Children
18:00-19:00 Dinner
20:00 Exhibition opening
Galerija “Zvonimir”, Bauerova 33
Friday, May 4
Topic: Education of Deaf Children
Room 1
Plenary
Chair: Lisbeth Henning, Alena Macurova
09:00-09:45 Susan Gregory: Issues in Sign Bilingual Education
09:45-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:45 Ila Parasnis: Diversity and Identity: Implications for the Deaf
Education
10:45-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Roger Carver: Creating a Deaf-Friendly Atmosphere for Deaf
Children
12:15-12:30 Discussion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Topics: Education – Programs, Models, Methods
Room 1
Short presentations
Chair: Stane Košir, Prudence Lau Sin Yee
14:00-14:20 Marjetka Kulovec: Bilingual Education in ZGN Ljubljana - Slovenia
14:20-14:40 Zora Jačova: Education of Deaf Children and Youth in Macedonia
14:40-15:00 Sandra Bradarić-Jončić, Sanja Tarzay: Sign Language and Deaf
Education in Croatia
15:00-15:20 Klaus-B. Gunther, Ilka Schafke: The Development of Written
Language of Bilingual Educated Deaf Pupils – Experiences From the
Bilingual School Attempt at the Hamburg School of the Deaf
15:20-15:40 Petra Rezar: Educational Integration of Deaf Children in Slovenia
15:40-16:00 Discussion
Topic: Education – Programs, Models, Methods
Room 2
Short presentations
Chair: Steven Collins, Deborah Chen Pichler
14:00-14:20 Alida Petani, Vlatka Ferković: Education of the Deaf Children From
the First to the Fourth Grade in “Slava Raškaj” school, Zagreb - Croatia
14:20-14:40 Damjana Kogovšek: The Efective Individual Training for the Hearing
Impaired Adolescent
14:40-15:00 Jelke van der Valle: A Method of Treatment and Training to
Challenging Behavior
15:00-15:20 Nicole Kuplenik: Towards Bilingual Education in ZGN Ljubljana:
Language and Self-Esteem
15:20-15:40 Kornelija Videc: Varaždin Model of Hearing Impaired Children
15:40-16:00 Discussion
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
Room 1
Workshop
16:30-17:30 Lisbeth Henning, Signild Salander: Bilingual Education for the Deaf.
Examples From Everyday Teaching and Learning in Sweden
Room 2
Workshop
16:30-17:30 Isabel Amaral, Janka Sarriska: Communnication With Congenitally
Deafblind Children
17:30-18:30 Dinner
19:30 Theater Performance in Sign Language (Dramsko kazalište Gavella,
Fraknopanska 8)
Saturday, May 5
Topics: Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Sign Language Teaching, DeafBlind
Room 1
Plenary
Chair: Mieke Van Herreweghe, Jelke van der Valle
09:00-09:45 Ronnie Wilbur: After 40 Years of Sign Language Research, What do
We Know?
09:45-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:45 Sharon Ridgeway: Well-Being of Deaf People – Where are They?
10:45-11:00 Discussion
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:15 Steven Collins: Working With Deaf-Blind People Among the Deaf
Community
12:15-12:30 Discusion
12:30-14:00 Lunch
Topic: Linguistics
Room 1
Short presentations
Chair: Ronnie Wilbur, Roger Carver
14:00-14:20 Mieke Van Herreweghe: Negation in Flemish Sign Language
14:20-14:40 Christopher Miller: The Middle Finger in Handshape Phonology
14:40-15:00 Prudence Lau SinYee, Gladys Tang Wai Lan: The Causative
Alternation in Hong Kong Sign Language
15:00-15:20 Sarah Lee Wai Fung, Gladys Tang Wai Lan: Aspectuality in Hong
Kong Sign Language
15:20-15:30 Discussion
Topics: Liguistics
Room 2
Short Presentations
Chair: Pat Sulistyawati, Linda Lupton
14:00-14:20 Ivan Sinčić, Mario Dolić: Situation Signs in Spacioception
14:20-14:40 Stane Košir: Denotativ Meaning of Sign Depending of Location
14:40-15:00 Richard A. van Royen: How Hard is to Predict Success in Sign
Language Acquisition?
15:00-15:20 Deborah Chen Pichler: Topicalization in early ASL
15:20-15:30 Discussion
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Room 1
Workshop
16:00-17:00 Christian Stalzer: Curriculum for Teaching Sign Language
Room 2
Workshop
16:00-17:00 Linda Lupton: 101 (or so) Suggestions for Sign Language Instruction
17:00-17:30 Closing Ceremony
18:00 Theatre Performance in Sign Language – Common Ground Sign Dance
Theatre (Zagrebačko kazalište mladih – ZeKaeM, N. Tesle 7)
20:00 Gala Dinner
“Hrvatski kulturni klub” - Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, Trg maršala Tita 10