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This Symposium1 was held in Tel Aviv from 14-19 June 1981. It was intended for parents, educators, medical personnel and anyone concerned with young visually handicapped children. About 400 people from some 26 countries came to the Symposium. The venue was very pleasant, a conference hotel in its own extensive grounds, outside Tel Aviv.
To one coming from the Hampstead Clinic the majority of the participants were very congenial. They gave the impression that their work with young visually handicapped children and their families had given them very considerable insight into the development of these children, insight which is probably less easily acquired when working with older, school-age children isolated from their families. They also showed greater respect for the parents’ handling of the children than is often to be found.
The Conference Organizers had scheduled a wide selection of papers to meet the varied interests of the participants, ranging from some on the planning of services to suit different communities to clinical studies which, though based on few or even single children, were carefully documented. The topics covered included:
regional world reports and descriptions of programmes the role of parents and the home: family and community support systems
various aspects of development such as medical and visual, social and emotional, sensory and motor, linguistic and intellectual
assessment
educational options
techniques and teacher training
technological aids