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
2:30-14:00
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 (Gavella Theater),
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
Discussion
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:
Linguistics
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

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