- The Australian Childhood Vision Impairment Register (ACVIR)
The Australian Childhood Vision Impairment Register (ACVIR) is sponsored by the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children (RIDBC) and supported by Vision Australia, Guide Dogs, & Cando4kids.
Why was the Register started?
There was a lack of reliable Australian data on children with vision impairment. This information is vital for accurate planning, reporting and research.
What are the
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
- SPEVI CONFERENCE 2013: Deadline for abstract submissions Tuesday 1 May 2012
SPEVI Conference 2013
‘Weaving the mat: Strength through connection - Rarangahia te whāriki, Kia tūhono kaha ai’:
Rendezvous Hotel, Auckland,
Aotearoa New Zealand
January 13-18, 2013.
Visit the Call for Presentations on the SPEVI website.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
- Kiribati braille production unit
I am pleased to advise that ICEVI has provided financial and technical assistance to the Kiribati School and Centre for Children with Special Needs in their establishment of a braille production unit.
The financial donation was used to assist with the purchase of a braille embosser for the school.
ICEVI has provided the special school with a second-hand Perkins brailler which was generously
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
- EFA-VI campaign in Fiji and Papua New Guinea
Fiji EFA-VI campaign
The EFA-VI campaign (“education for all children with vision impairment”) in Fiji is a joint initiative of ICEVI and World Blind Union, and was launched at the ICEVI International Conference in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia in 2006.
In September 2011, ICEVI collaborated with RIDBC, AusAID and Vision 2020 Australia to provide a Fiji-based training workshop in early childhood
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
- ICEVI updates April 2012
ICEVI General Assembly
ICEVI and WBU will be jointly holding their general assemblies in Bangkok Thailand between 10th and 16th November 2012.
The event will be hosted by the Thailand Association of the Blind, and will include a WBU Diversity Forum, WBU General Assembly, ICEVI General Assembly, ICEVI-WBU workshops, Gala dinner and Technology Exhibition.
The ICEVI general assembly and
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
- Apps & iPads: Does One Size Fit All?
The parallels between the advent of audio cassettes and talking technologies in the early 1980’s and the advent of Apps and iPads now are extremely close. The technologies in themselves are wonderful; what we need to be careful of is how we use them.
One of the biggest problems in examining how we use Apps and iPads is perspective. Making generalised statements about whether they are good or bad
Sunday, March 18, 2012
- Pacific Islands Stories: Pacific Albinism Project
The Pacific Albinism Project (PAP) was founded in 2003 by genetics researcher Helene Johanson, who still coordinates the project together with Annette Ferguson. On the 29th of March 2012 PAP will hold a workshop in Ipswich, Queensland. This event will present the first opportunity for a lot of Pacific Islanders in Australia to meet others with albinism outside their own immediate family.
AimPAP
Monday, February 27, 2012
- BrailleTouch: A touch of the past in the future
A team from the Georgia Institute of Technology (US) has designed BrailleTouch, a free open-source prototype app for touchscreen mobile devices. BrailleTouch allows people who know how to type Braille to type directly on the phone. You have to hold the iPhone with two hands, sideways and with the screen of the iPhone facing away from you. Then the app enables you to use your fingers in a layout
Monday, February 20, 2012
- Free app simulates eye disease
Still image produced with VisonSim set to Glaucoma.
Cover of the SPEVI Journal 2011.
Developed by the Braille Institute of America the app called VisionSim allows people with healthy vision to experience the world through the eyes of a person experiencing one of four degenerative eye diseases: macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma and cataracts. VisionSim is a simple yet useful
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
- Flash Sonar - echolocation for the blind by Phia Damsma
Daniel Kish on bike at Poptech 2011
Daniel Kish is a mobility expert from the US who teaches his own echolocation technique known as “Flash Sonar”.
Daniel is president of World Access for the Blind, a non-profit organisation and travels all over the globe to teach students who are blind to see in new ways by activating the brain to gain images of the world through sound and touch.
Having
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
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