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

  1. Ninoslava Šarac, Tamara Alibašić: Researching Croatian Sign Language Structure
  2. Tamara Alibašić, Ninoslava Šarac: The Importance of Body Leans in Croatian Sign Language
  3. Oleksandr Woloshynskyy, Ljubica Pribanić: Sports Activites of Deaf Children in Lviv – Ukraina
  4. Maria Pilar Fernandez-Viader, Josep Segimon: Acquisition of the First Handshape in Native LSC Signers
  5. Maria Pilar Fernandez-Viader: The Patterns of Communicative Interaction in Families With Deaf Children. Homogeneous Diyads and Heterogeneus Diyads
  6. Imma Codorniu, Marija Pilar Fernandez-Viader: The Metaphoric Visual Meaning in Two Sign Languages: Catalan Sign Language (LSC) and Spanish Sign Language (LSE)
  7. Maria Pilar Fernandez-Viader, Esther Pertusa, Maria Virginia Yarza: Special Help When Deaf Learners are Taught Writing Skills. Educative Influence Mechanisms
  8. 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
  9. Blaženka Brozović: Linguistic Skills of Hard-of-Hearing and Deaf Subjects Habilitated by Oral Method
  10. Maja Fleischer:
  11. Verica Krajnović, Jadranka Bačurin, Mirjana Dobrojević, Marina Robotić: Didactic material “Estimation and stimulation of motoric, perception and speech abilities”
  12. Marina Robotić, Tomislav Robotić: Model of on-line Internet course (distance learning)
  13. 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