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The Educator The Educator VOLUME XXVII, ISSUE 1 JULY 2013 DAISY Digital Accessible Information SYstem A Publication of The International Council for Education of ICEVI People with Visual Impairment PRINCIPPRINCIPALAL OFFICERS OFFICERS FOUNDING INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS PARTNER MEMBERS PRESIDENT PRINCIPAL OFFICER American Foundation CBM Lord Low of Dalston Praveena Sukhraj for the Blind Catherine Naughton Royal National Institute of 42 Windswawel Street, Scott Traux Nibelungenstrasse 124 Blind People Monument Park Extension 4, 64625 Bensheim 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 1102 105 Judd Street, London WC1H 9NE Pretoria 0181, GERMANY New York, NY 10121 UNITED KINGDOM SOUTH AFRICA [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] USA [email protected] Light for the World Manuela Krauter FIRST VICE PRESIDENT TREASURER Christoffel Development Cooperation Lucia Piccione Nandini Rawal Perkins School for the Blind Niederhofstrasse 26 A-1120 Vienna, AUSTRIA Urquiza 2659 - 5001 Blind People’s Association Steven M. Rothstein [email protected] Cordoba, ARGENTINA Jagdish Patel Chowk 175 North Beacon Street [email protected] Surdas Marg, Vastrapur Watertown, MA 02472 Norwegian Association of the Ahmedabad 380 015 USA Blind and Partially Sighted SECOND VICE PRESIDENT INDIA [email protected] (NABPS) Arnt Holte [email protected] Frances Gentle P.O. Box 5900, Majorstua0308 The Renwick Centre Royal National Institute Oslo, NORWAY Royal Institute for Deaf and PRESIDENT EMERITUS of Blind People [email protected] Blind Children Lawrence F. Campbell Lord Low of Dalston Organización Nacional de Private Bag 29 105 Judd Street 1, Center Street, Ciegos Españoles London WC1H 9NE Parramatta, NSW 2124 Rockland, Maine 04841 Ana Peláez AUSTRALIA USA UNITED KINGDOM C/ Almansa, 66, 28039 Madrid [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] SPAIN [email protected] INTERNATIONAL REGIONALPRINCIPAL CHAIRPERSONS OFFICERS Perkins School for the Blind NON-GOVERNMENTAL Aubrey Webson AFRICA NORTH AMERICA / ORGANISATIONS 175 North Beacon Street Tigabu Gebremedhin CARIBBEAN Watertown, MA 02472 USA CBM Country Office Ethiopia Kay Alicyn Ferrell Deafblind International P.O.Box 694, Addis Ababa [email protected] Professor of Special Education Bernadette M. Kappen ETHIOPIA University of Northern Colorado 999, Pelham Parkway Bronx Royal National Institute [email protected] Campus Box 146, 501, New York 10469, USA of Blind People [email protected] Pete Osborne EAST ASIA 20th Street, Greeley, CO 80639 105 Judd Street USA London WC1H 9NE Suwimon Udompiriyasak World Blind Union Faculty of Education [email protected] UNITED KINGDOM Rina Prasarani [email protected] Suan Dusit Rajabhat University Secretary General, 295 Ratchasima Road PACIFIC Indonesian Blind Union (Pertuni) Sightsavers Dusit Dist., Bangkok 10300 Paul Manning Jl. Raya bogor Km 19, Adelaide Addo-Fening THAILAND Grosvenor Hall, Bolnore Road Executive Officer Ruko Blok Q no 13L, [email protected] Haywards Heath Parents of Vision Impaired (NZ) Kramat Jati, West Sussex RH16 4BX Jakarta, 13510, INDONESIA EUROPE Incorporated UNITED KINGDOM [email protected] Betty Leotsakou P. Box 366, Waikato Mail Centre [email protected] Ministry of Education Hamilton 3240 International Agency for the Visio K.D.A.Y of Athens NEW ZEALAND Prevention of Blindness Marten de Bruine 12 Ioannou Kotsou Street [email protected] Amersfoortsestraatweg 180 Peter Ackland Glyka Nera 15354, Athens 1272 RR Houses London School of Hygiene & GREECE THE NETHERLANDS WEST ASIA Tropical Medicine, [email protected] [email protected] Bhushan Punani Keppel Street, Chief Executive Officer LATIN AMERICA Blind People’s Association London WC1E 7HT María Cristina Sanz Jagdish Patel Chowk UNITED KINGDOM Mani, M.N.G. No.3, Professors’ Colony avda. 13 n 1207, flor 9 dpto. A Surdas Marg, Vastrapur [email protected] Ahmedabad 380 015 S.R.K.Vidyalaya Post (1900) LA PLATA Coimbatore - 641 020 Visit us at : ARGENTINA INDIA Tamil Nadu, INDIA [email protected] [email protected] www.icevi.org [email protected] Editor CONTENTS W. Aubrey Webson 01. Message from The President 02 02. Message from The Guest Editor 03 Director 03. Message from World Blind Union 04 Perkins International - Arnt Holte Perkins School for the Blind 04. Message from Deaf Blind International 06 175 North Beacon Street - Gill Morbey 05. WBU and ICEVI welcome UN Panel’s report on post-2015 07 Watertown 06. Curriculum Access Materials Interview with Stephen King 08 MA 02472 07. What is DAISY? 13 USA - George Kerscher 08. Post-2015 and inequality: Why the new Development 16 Goals must deliver for people with disabilities - Colin Low, Dominic Haslam, Frances Gentle & Associate Editor Lars Bosselmann 09. 75th Anniversary of ONCE 22 M.N.G. Mani 10. Global standards help visually-impaired researchers 23 CEO, ICEVI - Margaret Mcgrory 11. New regional chair of ICEVI Europe Region 25 12. Matching the Education and Life Chances of Blind Children in the 21st Century 26 Editorial Committee - Kevin Carey W. Aubrey Webson 13. Accessibility and Textbooks in Brazil 32 Lord Low of Dalston - Pedro Milliet 14. Meeting of the INGO partners of the Latin America Region 35 M.N.G. Mani 15. Bookshare - An accessible online library for people with print disabilities 36 16. ISaR International: An Internet Resource Centre for Parents, 40 Teachers, and Administrators Designing and Printing - Emmy Csocsán & Solveig Sjöstedt ICEVI Secretariat 17. 6th Joint IDP Forum and ICEVI Educational Conference 44 No.3, Professors’ Colony 18. Music Education for School Aged Students Who Are Blind 45 or Partially Sighted in England: An Overview for 2013 S.R.K. Vidyalaya Post - James Risdon & Sally-Anne Zimmerman Coimbatore - 641 020 19. Braille for the World: Duxbury Systems’ DBT Supports 50 Tamil Nadu Many Languages - Neal Kuniansky & David Holladay INDIA 20. Nations United by Braille: New Edition of World Braille Usage 55 Phone : 91-422-2469104 - Ellen Hall 21. ICEVI-DbI 2nd Joint Asian Conference 62 Fax : 91-422-2693414 22. Higher Education Meeting in Hanoi 63 e-mail : [email protected] 23. Summary of Global Task Force Meeting Decisions 64 Guest Editor : Pete Osborne, Head, International Development, RNIB. E-mail : [email protected] Our International Partners LIGHT FOR THE WORLD Sightsavers Message from The President When I wrote my latest message for the ICEVI E-News in it stands for. “International Council for Education of April, I had just come out of hospital after surgery to People with Visual Impairment” is a terrible mouthful and remove a tumour from my right kidney. I’m pleased to say you’ve usually lost your audience before you’ve got the operation was a complete success and I was back on halfway through it. It would be good to hear readers’ my feet in a much shorter time than the doctors had led views about this. me to expect. It has been a busy summer in the House of Much of the meeting was devoted to developing an Lords, where I have been actively concerned with some implementation plan for the EFA-VI Strategy adopted at major pieces of legislation, one involving a complete the joint assembly in Bangkok last November. With a re-write of our system of special education. This will dozen people in the room draft plans only grow longer continue through the autumn. At the same time I have and the range of tasks to be accomplished is daunting, but been chairing a commission which is developing a strategy the Principal Officers will assign roles to achieve for the provision of advice and legal support on social maximum impact. welfare law following significant cuts in the budget for legal aid. We are entering into a strategic partnership with the DAISY Consortium to develop a strategy for harnessing On the ICEVI front, we held a successful meeting of the technology to enable blind and partially sighted children reconstituted Global Task Force in Madrid, Spain on 31 to be included in mainstream schools alongside their May and 1 June. This coincided with the 75th birthday sighted peers. Gordon Brown, the former UK Prime celebrations of ONCE, the Spanish National Organisation Minister and now the UN Secretary-General’s education of the Blind, and we were honoured to be invited to join envoy has offered to promote this with major players in some 100,000 blind Spaniards in the centre of Madrid on the technology field such as Apple, Google, Microsoft the day following our meeting. and Amazon, as well as the World Bank, the Global At the meeting itself, strategies were identified for Partnership for Education, etc. promoting greater collaboration, especially with the There is a strong consensus that the joint Assembly with World Blind Union (WBU) and the International Agency WBU in Bangkok last November was a success, so it has for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB), our partners in been agreed to hold the next Assembly jointly in 2016. A the Vision Alliance, at regional and national level. There is document has gone out to members inviting bids to host to be a session with Regional Chairpersons ahead of the the event. It is a formidable undertaking to host an event next ExCo meeting in Vienna in November, and we will as successful as the last one. Many bases have to be devote some time then to discussing the steps which are covered and many details put in place, but if any of our needed to put these into practice. members have the resources and the enthusiasm, I would We had a detailed discussion of marketing strategies for encourage you to put in a bid - staging an event of this kind the EFA-VI campaign. This included a discussion of can be a real opportunity for learning and organisational whether we had the right title for the campaign. After development. We have already decided to make one or exhaustive discussion, it was agreed to recommend to the two changes.
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