You can find the presentations slides of the keynotes and country presentations on our blog.

In a few days, there will be congress photo's on the website as well!

Thursday 20th October

Arrival (voluntary)
19.00 | Committee meeting for Committee members

Friday 21th October

Day 1

9.00 - 10.00	Registration
10.00 - 10.30	Opening Paul Simpson (FEAPDA) & Henk Bakker (Kentalis)
10.30 - 11.15	Loes Wauters, Reading strategies and Modeling/ Best Practises
11.15 - 11.45	Coffee break
11.45 - 12.15	Leonardo Presentation, FEAPDA committee
12.15 - 14.15	Lunch
14.15 - 14.45	Country presentation Belgium, Listening Eyes
14.45 - 15.15	Country presentation Slovenia. The importance of checking the readiness for literacy learning in deaf and hard-of-hearing children
15.15 - 15.45	Coffee break
15.45 - 16.30	Carin Roos, Stimulating emergent literacy in young deaf cildren
16.30 - 17.00	Practical example: Visualization of text structures and interaction with written text
17.30	Reception at City Hall

Saturday 22nd October

Day 2

9.30 - 9.45	Opening, Paul Simpson (FEAPDA)
9.45 - 10.15	Country presentation Switzerland, Promoting literacy in secondary school
10.15 - 10.45	Country presentation Poland, motivating literacy in sign language classes
10.45 - 11.15	Coffee break
11.15 - 12.00	Linda Watson, Role of parents in the reading process
12.00 - 13.10	Carrousel discussion
13.15 - 14.45	Lunch (council meeting for council members)
14.45 - 15.15	Country presentation Macedonia, examples of good practice in secundary school
15.15 - 16.00	Ingvild Roald, Deaf teachers strategies in helping deaf children to read and understand written texts
16.00 - 16.15	Closure Rob Boerman (Simea) & Guido Lichtert (FEAPDA)
19.00	Banquet (voluntary)

Sunday 23rd October

Voluntary cultural program in Den Bosch

Time Table

Keynote: lecture 30 min. / questions 15 min.
Country presentation: presentation 20 min./ questions 5 min.

The FEAPDA congress 2011 will take place in the Netherlands, in Sint Michielsgestel. The topic of the congress will be "Literacy in deaf children". On this website you'll find all the information you need about the congress. All presentations and discussions will be in English. Please bring your own interpreter if you're not able to understand or join discussions in this language.

During the congress, there will be four keynote speakers, from different countries. They will all talk about different aspects of literacy development. All countries that are member of FEAPDA have the possibility to give a country presentation. Be sure to follow the time schedule, if you want to give a presentation at the congress.

We're looking forward to meet you at the congress!

To get more information, you can contact us by using:
info@feapdacongress2011.eu

Interpretation services in International Sign - English are provided by Irma Sluis and Maya de Wit. We have worked together for many years, interpreting as a team in a variety of multilingual settings in a combination of languages (NGT, ASL, German, English and International Sign). In addition, we just completed our MA in the European Master of Sign Language Interpreting (EUMASLI). We are looking forward to working with you.

You can subscribe yourself for the congress until October 10th!

If you are a European Union national you may apply for a Comenius or Grundtvig grant (as part of the Lifelong Learning Programme). Look at "subscribe" for more information.

Congress fee:

●	Early bird fee (subscribe before August 15th): 190 euro
●	Late subscribers (subscribe after August 15th): 230 euro
●	Banquet (optional, saturday evening)*: 50 euro
●	Cultural programm (optional, sunday morning)*: 15 euro

*Note, these costs are not included in the congress fee.