NUI Galway’s Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CELT) has partnered with its Inclusive Learning project team to offer a virtual Symposium on Inclusive Learning on April 7th and 8th 2021.

As student populations become increasingly diverse, what can higher education institutions do to create a truly inclusive learning environment? How can we listen and respond to the needs and concerns of our students, while supporting staff to navigate an increasingly complex teaching and learning landscape?

This two-day symposium aims to raise awareness of issues of equality, diversity and inclusion in higher education, and will highlight the importance of centering the student voice. It will also showcase and share inclusive pedagogies, practices and approaches.

Speakers include:

• Julie Rattray (Durham, ENG)
• Jesse Stommel (UMW, US)
• Henriette Stöber (EUA)
• Hamsavani Rajeswaren (QUB, NI)
• Ebun Joseph (UCD)
• Tracy Galvin (QUB, NI)

The event is free and fully online and is open to anyone with an interest in these issues in a higher education context. Students are welcome to attend and to contribute actively to the discussions.

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IASSIDD Inclusive Education SIRG Webinar Series

Date: February 10, 2021

Start: 15.00 UTC/10.00 am EST/23.00 ACT (Length: 90 minutes)

Co-sponsored by: IASSIDD Academy – Certificates of Attendance will be provided.

Presentations:

The Experiences of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Inclusive Schools in Ghana

Christiana Okyere (Michigan State University)

What do students with intellectual disabilities prefer? Mainstream or Special Educational Settings?

Cristina Nieto (University of Seville)

“It will take a while for me to get to the top of the mountain.” Transition stories: voices of school leavers with Intellectual Disability.

Geraldine Scanlon (Dublin City University)

Wednesday 27th of January 2021

11 am – 12 pm 

Are you finishing school in 2021? 

Would you like to know more about the skills for life rehabilitative training programme located in the Munster Technological University campus Tralee and run by Saint John of God Kerry Services? 

If you have an interest in joining, please contact staff for zoom link information. 

Contact: 

Sophie Casey: sophie.casey@sjog.ie

Phil McSweeney: phil.mcsweeney@sjog.ie

AHEAD and the Union of Students in Ireland are happy to present the Power of Disability Conference 2021, kindly supported by the Higher Education Authority.

This two day event will include discussions, presentations and feedback sessions encouraging students with disabilities to be leaders on their own campuses and provide information for students and Students’ Union officers on the issues facing students with disabilities.

Day 1 of the conference will focus on disability in education. This day will feature sessions sharing research in the area of disability, workshops on disclosing a disability and looking at Universal Design for Learning. 

Day 2 of the event focuses on empowerment and constructive advocacy. We are delighted to welcome Minister Simon Harris, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to address the conference as part of this schedule. 

Registration is free to attend, but registration is limited so you must book a spot in advance. 

International Perspectives on Transitions in Education and Students with Intellectual Disabilities

Date: 16^th December

FREE OF CHARGE

Time: 09.00 Eastern Standard time/ 14.00 Coordinated Universal Time/ 24.00 Australian Eastern Standard Time

Please note the webinar will be approximately 1.5 hours duration.   You will receive the Zoom webinar link via email prior to the event

Moving on, moving out

Ruth Faragher (Brisbane, Australia)

Transitions to postschool settings for students with intellectual disabilities in Ireland.

Michael Shevlin,  Des Aston & Joanne Banks (Trinity College Dublin)

“I’m considering stopping his schooling so that the father teaches him any job”: Navigating the transitions of disabled children in Africa.

 Karisa Amani (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Staff, graduates and partners of the Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities on linking with the business community to support students with intellectual disabilities to transition to work.

Date | Thursday 17th December 2020

Time | 4.00 -5.00pm

Trinity Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities 
School of Education
Trinity College Dublin