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The Educator The Educator VOLUME XXXIV, ISSUE 2 JANUARY 2021 A Publication of The International Council for Education of ICEVI People with Visual Impairment PRINCIPAL OFFICERS FOUNDING INTERNATIONAL PRINCIPAL OFFICERS ORGANISATIONS PARTNER MEMBERS PRESIDENT TREASURER American Foundation CBM Frances Gentle Nandini Rawal Monika Brenes The Renwick Centre Blind People’s Association for the Blind Stubenwald-Allee 5 Royal Institute for Deaf and 132 Ft. Ring Road Penny Rosenblum 64625 Bensheim Blind Children Vastrapur 1401 South Clark Street, GERMANY Private Bag 29 Ahmedabad 380 015 Suite 730, Arlington, VA 22202 [email protected] Parramatta, NSW 2124 INDIA USA Light for the World AUSTRALIA [email protected] [email protected] Nafisa Baboo [email protected] 26 Niederhofstrasse IMMEDIATE PAST Perkins School for the Blind A11-20 Vienna, AUSTRIA FIRST VICE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT [email protected] Praveena Sukhraj-Ely Lord Low of Dalston Dave Power Norwegian Association of the Department of Justice and Royal National Institute of 175 North Beacon Street Blind and Partially Sighted Constitutional Development, Watertown, MA 02472 Blind People (NABPS) Momentum Centre, 105 Judd Street, London USA Terje Iversen 329 Pretorius Street, Pretoria, WC1H 9NE [email protected] P.O. Box 5900, Majorstua0308 SOUTH AFRICA UNITED KINGDOM Oslo, NORWAY [email protected] [email protected] Royal National Institute [email protected] SECOND VICE PRESIDENT PRESIDENT EMERITUS of Blind People Organización Nacional de Ciegos Españoles Rima Canawati Lawrence F. Campbell David Clarke P.O. Box 100 105 Judd Street Ana Peláez 1, Center Street, C/ Almansa, 66, 28039 Bethlehem Rockland, Maine 04841 London WC1H 9NE Madrid, SPAIN PALESTINE USA UNITED KINGDOM [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Overbrook School for the Blind Todd Reeves INTERNATIONAL 6333 Malvern Avenue, REGIONALPRINCIPAL CHAIRPERSONS OFFICERS Philadelphia, PA 19151-2597 AFRICA NORTH AMERICA / NON-GOVERNMENTAL USA [email protected] Gertrude Oforiwa Fefoame CARIBBEAN ORGANISATIONS Sightsavers’ Global Advocacy Advisor Kay Alicyn Ferrell Perkins School for the Blind Densu Point, P.O. Box KIA 18190 Katherine Holland Professor of Special Education, Deafblind International North Dzorwulu, Accra Mirko Baur 175 North Beacon Street Emerita GHANA Alte Dorfstrasse 3d, CH-8135 Watertown, MA 02472, USA University of Northern Colorado [email protected] [email protected] Langnau am Albis Campus Box 146 Royal Institute for Deaf and 501, 20th Street SWITZERLAND EAST ASIA [email protected] Blind Children Aria Indrawati Greeley, CO 80639 Frances Gentle Pertuni (The Indonesian Blind USA Private Bag 29, Parramatta, World Blind Union Association) [email protected] NSW 2124, AUSTRALIA José Viera P.O.Box 386, Jalan Raya Bogor, [email protected] 1929 Bayview Avenue Km.19 Ruko Blok Q No. 13-L, PACIFIC Royal National Institute RT01 RW04, Kramat Jati, Toronto, Ontario M4G3E8 Ben Clare of Blind People East Jakarta CANADA Project Manager David Clarke INDONESIA [email protected] 105 Judd Street, London WC1H 9NE [email protected] Pacific Islands activities UNITED KINGDOM Aspen Medical Foundation International Agency for the [email protected] PO Box 231 EUROPE Prevention of Blindness Sightsavers Hans Welling Deakin West ACT 2601 Peter Holland Andrew Griffiths Diependaalsedrift 32 AUSTRALIA Office 6068, Aldgate Tower 35 Perrymount Road 1213cr Hilversum [email protected] 2 Leman St., London E1 8FA Haywards Heath THE NETHERLANDS UNITED KINGDOM West Sussex RH16 3BW [email protected] WEST ASIA UNITED KINGDOM [email protected] [email protected] Bhushan Punani LATIN AMERICA Blind People’s Association Chief Executive Officer Royal Dutch Visio María Cristina Sanz Sabine Fijn van Draat 132 Ft. Ring Road, Vastrapur Mani, M.N.G. avda. 13 n 1207, flor 9 dpto. A Amersfoortsestraatweg 180 Ahmedabad 380 015 No.3, Professors’ Colony, 1272 RR Houses (1900) LA PLATA SRKV Post, Coimbatore - 641 020 ARGENTINA INDIA THE NETHERLANDS [email protected] Tamil Nadu, INDIA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Editor CONTENTS Kay Ferrell 1. Message from the President and CEO 02 Professor Emerita, Special Education 2. Message from the Editor 05 University of Northern Colorado Campus Box 146 3. The Body with Distancing: An Educational 06 Greeley, CO 80639 Experience with Children with Multiple USA Disability During the Pandemic - Lic. Melina Andrea Rigoni 4. Improving Educational Outcomes for Learners 13 with Visual Impairment in Kenya through Visionary Learning Associate Editor - Martin Kieti M.N.G. Mani 5. COVID 19: Impact and Responses 17 CEO, ICEVI - ICEVI Europe Report - Stephen McCall 6. COVID 19: Impact and Responses 41 - ICEVI Latin America Report - Cristina Sanz Editorial Committee 7. COVID 19 and Mobility for Persons who are Blind 50 Frances Gentle - ICEVI West Asia Kay Ferrell 8. Response to Covid by ICEVI West Asia 54 M.N.G. Mani - Bhushan Punani 9. Talking Technology 58 - Ben Clare 10. Parent Perspectives 61 Designing - Susan LaVenture ICEVI Secretariat 11. Need for amendments to the 2010 Articles of Association 62 No.3, Professors’ Colony (AOA) and Memorandum of Association of ICEVI S.R.K. Vidyalaya Post 12. Articles of Association 63 Coimbatore - 641 020 Tamil Nadu, INDIA 13. Memorandum of Association 70 14. Proposed amendments to the 2010 Articles of 72 Telefax : 91-422-2693414 Association (AOA) and Memorandum of Association e-mail : [email protected] of ICEVI - March 2021 Our International Partners LIGHT FOR THE WORLD Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children Message from The President & CEO Dear Readers This message started its life as a reflection on the 2016-2020 ICEVI quadrennium. However, as the COVID-19 pandemic became a global health emergency in early 2020, ICEVI extended its term by an additional year, resulting in a five year “quinquennnium”. As we prepare for our first virtual General Assembly in June 2021, in partnership with the World Blind Union and hosted by ONCE, we offer this reflection on the past five years. Commencement of the ICEVI term in 2016 coincided with the tenth anniversary of the United Nations historic adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). The year of 2016 also marked the first anniversary of adoption by UN Members States of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These international frameworks, together with other human rights instruments, foster disability-inclusive development and the rights of all children to equitable participation in education, leaving no-one behind. There is no doubt that members and partners will need to redouble their efforts to promote disability-inclusive education systems and communities. The global pandemic presents new threats to realisation of the 2020 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals and targets. It is noteworthy that in December 2020, the United Nations Secretary General, António Guterres, described how the pandemic was deepening pre-existing societal inequalities, and impacting the most vulnerable and marginalised in society, including women and girls, persons with disabilities, and low income communities. At the commencement of the quinquennium, ICEVI’s Executive Committee (EXCO) members reaffirmed their commitment to advancing the UNCRPD and the UN Education 2030 Agenda and Framework for Action. In early 2017, the EXCO members set the following three strategic goals to guide ICEVI activities at global and regional levels: Goal 1 : Promoting access to quality education for people with visual impairment, including those with blindness, partial sight, deafblindness and additional disabilities; 02 | The Educator Goal 2 : Influencing governments and relevant stakeholders’ implementation of the SDGs and UNCRPD in the area of education of people with visual impairment; and Goal 3 : Improving networking, information sharing and collaboration at national, regional and global levels. Activities of member and partner organisations have included information sharing and networking using the ICEVI global and regional websites and social media platforms. Advances in inclusive digital technologies have supported the creation of open access publications, resources and training materials which are available for download on the ICEVI global and regional websites. Publications include joint ICEVI-WBU position statements on education and braille literacy, issues of The Educator (in English and Spanish), the ICEVI E-News, and annual ICEVI reports. We were fortunate to have Ms Marianne Riggio of Perkins School for the Blind as Editor of The Educator for several years. Marianne stepped down from the position in 2019 and we are delighted that Professor Kay Ferrell has accepted the invitation to become the new Editor. In addition to her editorial responsibilities Prof Ferrell’s contributions include leadership of the working group that authored the Start-up teacher training curriculum in vision impairment education. This open access curriculum is designed for countries with limited pre-service or in-service training programs, and may be downloaded from the ICEVI website onto a computer, mobile phone or other device. Another significant achievement during the quinquennium has been the creation of the ICEVI Math Made Easy YouTube channel which contains over 175 instructional mathematics videos for teachers and
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