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Names
Name E-mail Insitution Country Special interest
Irene Mühlbach i.muehlbach@eduhi.at
 		 Austria
 
Karen Van Hemelrijck karen.vanhemelrijck@ganspoel.be Centrum Ganspoel Belgium Children between 6 and 18 years old, social competence, CVI
Eliane Bonamie eliane.bonamie@mpi-spermalie.be begeleidingscentrum Spermalie- home service Accent Belgium young blind children;basic stimulation; how to collect and pass on knowledge and expertise;management of the service
Sack Murielle murielle.sack@uclouvain.be Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) Belgium Since nineteen years, I work with special needs students at the Université catholique de Louvain, in Belgium. I am part of a unit which provides support to special needs students. This unit is called "Aide-Handi ". I am in charge of the coordination of the educational tutors, who work closely with special needs students. But I don’t work alone. I work with my colleague, Anne Druart. She is a social worker who coordinates the support for the everyday life of special needs students.
Chantal Lecolier chantal.lecolier@umh.ac.be
 		 Belgium
 
Leo Delaet leo.delaet@ganspoel.be
 		 Belgium
 
Eliane Bonamie eliane.bonamie@mpi-spermalie.be institut Spermalie Belgium young blind children;basic stimulation;
Lirija Kruša lirijak@gmail.com
 		 Bosnia-Herzegovina The Psychological Effects of Boarding School Placement for Blind and Visually Impaired Children and Youth
Jelena Pensa Galian jelena.pensa@gmail.com Center Vinko Bek, Kušlanova 59a, 10 000 Zagreb Croatia I¨m specially interested in issues concerning adult rehabilitation dealing with trauma of loosing sight, self esteem of blind persons, professional rehabilitation, improving social and communicational skills of blind persons, older age and visual impairment.
Dora Papageorgiou dorapp@cytanet.com.cy school for the Blind Cyprus counselling-vi and emotional difficulties
Peter Rodney pr@ibos.dk
 		 Denmark
 
Christense Thygesen ct@ibos.dk
 		 Denmark
 
Kirsten Vinter kirsten@cfh.ku.dk
 		 Denmark
 
Connie Christensen connie@voksenpsykologerne.dk
 		 Denmark
 
Anette Ingsholt anette@ingsholt.dk
 		 Denmark
 
Karen Riber Geisle krg@ibos.dk IBOS Denmark
 
Elina Storå elina.stora@jynok.fi
 		 Finland
 
Liisa Lahtinen liisa.lahtinen@nkl.fi Finnish Federation of the Visually Impaired Finland neuropsychology of vision/low vision rehabilitation, multidisabled children and cerebral visual impairment
Marika Kajander marika.kajander@hus.fi Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH)/Eye and Ear Hospital/Eye Clinic Finland rehabilitation, child neuropsychology
Maria Rutenberg maria.rutenberg@keskuspuisto.fi
 		 Finland
 
helena pukari helena.pukari@keskuspuisto.fi Arlainstitute Finland school psychology
Evelyne Rollot evelyne.rollot@laposte.net
 		 France
 
Francoise Tomeno francoise.tomeno@wanadoo.fr
 		 France
 
Christine Aktouche christineaktouche@wanadoo.fr
 		 France
 
Agnés Guibora santif.guibora@orange.fr
 		 France
 
Dieter Bretz bretz@blindenschule-friedberg.de
 		 Germany
 
Petra Rösl-Thies p.roesl@blindeninstitut.de
 		 Germany
 
Heinz Graumann hegraumann@lfs-schleswig.de Landesförderzentrum Sehen, Schleswig Germany Counselling, Assessment and Rehabilitation
Catrin Hastreiter Catrin.Hastreiter@sfz-chemnitz.de
 		 Germany
 
Anne Henriksen A.Henriksen@t-online.de
 		 Germany
 
Regina Deckert regina.deckert@nikolauspflege.de
 		 Germany
 
Mechthild Gahbler mechthild.gahbler@blindeninstitut.de
 		 Germany Stereotypic movements
Susanne Mundhenk susanne.mundhenk@lfs-schleswig.de Landesförderzentrum Sehen, Schleswig Germany
 
Christine Burger christine.burger@blindeninstitut.de
 		 Germany
 
Matthias Zeschitz
 
 		 Germany
 
Vera Heyl heyl@ph-heidelberg.de University of Education Germany Social relations, life span development
Helga Weinlaeder weinlaeder@ph-heidelberg.de
 		 Germany
 
Klaus Röder roeder@blista.de
 		 Germany - Social Competence - Autism and blindness - Rehabilitation programms for blind people who make little progress in O&M
Betty Leotsakos bleotsakou@gmail.com
 		 Greece
 
Ikospentaki Kalliopi kikospe@phs.uoa.gr
 		 Greece
 
Beata Pronay pronaybea@gmail.com
 		 Hungary Rehabilitation for new blind individuals, psychological rehabilitation, adjustment to blindness, assassment of adults, assassment with WISC verbal subtests, and with ITVIC in primary school. Interests: autistic spectrum disorder among VI children, assassment of multiply disabled of VI children.
Judit Csakvari csakvarijudit@freemail.hu
 		 Hungary
 
Livia Kovacs klia@freemail.hu
 		 Hungary school psychologist in Budapest in Kindergarten, Elementary School, Special Vocational and Boarding School for Visually Impaired Children. She cares for children aged about 6-22. They are blind, blind with learning difficulties, or mental retardation.
Agnes Somorjai somorjai@freemail.hu
 		 Hungary
 
Agnes Fazekas fazekas.agnes@chello.hu
 		 Hungary I'm school psychologist in Budapest in Elementary School for Low Vision Children, and I have a private consultation room. I'm interested in family therapy, short term dynamic psychoterapy and treatment possibilities of multiply handicapped children.
Elinborg Larusdottir elinbl@sjonstod.is
 		 Iceland
 
Joan Curran curranjoan@eircom.net St Joseph's Centre for the Visaully Impaired Ireland early intervention; intervention with children and adolescents with visual and other disabilities; assessment; parent support; sibling support; teacher support; staff support; training and education of psychologists.
Patrizia Ceccarani ceccarani.p@legadelfilodoro.it
 		 Italy
 
Inga Broka inga.ib@inbox.lv
 		 Latvia
 
Lina Labatmediene lina.labatmediene@gmail.com
 		 Lithuania
 
Ingrida Gabrialaviciute ingrida@lasuc.lt Lithuanian training centre Lithuania
 
Gene Vaitkuviene ksim@takas.lt
 		 Lithuania
 
Diana Straukiene 37065519494kadiana@gmail.com
 		 Lithuania
 
Laurent Dura laurent.dura@idv.etat.lu
 		 Luxenburg
 
Dr Colette Gray c.gray@stran.ac.uk Stranmillis University College Northern Ireland Visual impairment in children
Anne Nafstad anne.nafstad@statped.no
 		 Norway
 
Almut Prahl Almut.Prahl@statped.no
 		 Norway
 
Aase Frostad Fasting aase.frostad.fasting@statped.no
 		 Norway
 
Knut Brandsborg knut.brandsborg@statped.no
 		 Norway
 
Piotr Gindrich piotrgindrich@lycos.com
 		 Poland
 
Justyna Korzeniewska justczd@yahoo.co.in Children’s Memorial Health Institute and the Association for the Welfare of the Deafblind Poland I am psychologist working with severally sick (among others persons with brain tumors), deafblind and multihandicapped children and young adults. I am working for the Children’s Memorial Health Institute and the Association for the Welfare of the Deafblind (Warsaw, Poland). My main interests are psychological functional diagnosis, rehabilitation and support for sick and multihandicapped, as well their families. I am also lecturer in clinical and educational psychology, as well psychological aspects of handicap. I started my work for deafblind as a guide – interpreter and I still like to do that as a volunteer.
Laura-Elena Runceanu laurarunceanu@yahoo.com "Babes-Bolyai" University of Cluj Napoca Romania inclusive education, equal rights, equal opportunities and community-based rehabilitation for persons with disabilities
Roxana CZIKER rcziker@yahoo.com Liceul pentru Deficienti de Vedere Romania Neuropsychological issues
Larisa S. Odnoshovina Larisafsl1@rambler.ru
 		 Russia
 
Dr. Ruchin ruchin@spi.overta.ru
 		 Russia We represent the international department of the Pedagogical Institute of Saratov State University (http://www.sgu.ru/pedagogic_college/), which is a classical academic, scientific and research complex of Federal level. Saratov State University is one of the oldest Russian universities. It was founded in 1909. Our institute has 90 years of history. At present time it is a part of University. Our institute has 6 faculties: *Foreign Languages *Russian Philology *Music and Pedagogy *Correction Pedagogy and Special Psychology *Elementary Education *Exercise and Sport Science Our institute offers you cooperation. We will be very much appreciated to receive a letter from your college and we hope for partnership.
Lilija Plastunova plastunova@yandex.ru
 		 Russia
 
Dragana Stanimirovic sdragana@ptt.yu Faculty for Special Education and Rehabilitation University of Belgrade Gospodar Jovanova 38/5 11000 Belgrade Serbia Phone number (with country code) +381646174296 Serbia Early interventiom, Professional orijentation of VI pupulls, Behavior and Emotional problems and Psychiatrical desorders of VI, Psychological Workshops with VI as a prevention of desorders, etc.
Snezana Pejakov spejakov@gmail.com School for Visually Impaired Pupills "Veljko Ramadanovic", Zemun, Srebia Serbia Abstract: Children who attend School for Visally Impaired Pupils in Zemun, Srebia, have many emotional and behavior problems, first of all because they are separate from their parents and home environment. During the school year they live in the boarding section next to the school. The other reason of their problems is because they have to learn how to deal with sight lost, and how to prepare for actitities for daily living with sighted people. They needs are to share they feelins of sorrow, anger, fears and love with the other children from their class, to relax and rest from school duties, to learn some new games. Psychological worshops ”Smile keepers” give the children opportunity to satisfy their needs. These workshops are also primary and secondary prevention of psychological and psychiatrical disorders. During the last ten years working in this school as a psychologist, I adapted these workshops for the children with visually impairement using specific metods and technics. Key words: psyshological workshop, emotional and behavior problem, primary and secondary prevention, psyshological and psychiatrical desorder.
Vera Rajovic vrajovic@f.bg.ac.yu Belgrade University - Psychology Department/Teacher Education Center Serbia Inclusion - psychological and social barriers and potential for visually impaired, particularly in education - Individual Educational Plan, partnership with parents, teamwork
Timea Hokova hokova@unss.sk Slovak Blind and Partially Sighted Union Slovak Republic
 
Darja Kobal Grum darja.kobal@ff.uni-lj.si
 		 Slovenia Maintaining equal opportunities for education of blind and partially sighted children in Slovenia
Pura Diaz Veiga pdv@once.es National Organization for the Spanish Blind (ONCE) Spain Aging
Griselda Tubau gtubau@cambrabcn.es Faculty of Psychology, Educational Sciences and Sport, Ramón Llull University Spain I’m working as a psychotherapist in private consulting with families, children, teenagers and young adults some of whom have a disability At same time I’m working with various professionals as a supervisor of their assitencial task: teachers, speech therapists, social workers, school psychologists, and physiotherapists My theoretical framework is psychoanalytic. Some ideas of these authors guide my clinical work: Klein (object-relations theory), Winnicott (transitional phenomena), Bion (alpha function, the mother’s capacity of reverie), Bick (technical observation of babies) and Meltzer (parental functions) I would like to discuss the following specific topic: Assistance task (Psycho-analytic insight and relationships) I understand that it is necessary to work not only with people with visual impairment but also with who have relationships with them. In this sense, I am more interested in the emotional aspects of those relationships than in perceptual or cognitive aspects.
Rafael Pallero rpgo@once.es ONCE Spain Psychosocial adjustment to blindness
Maria Victoria Quílez García vqg@once.es ONCE Spain Psychosocial adjustment to blindess. Neuropsycho
Miguel Díaz Salabert mds@once.es ONCE Spain Psychosocial adjustment to visual impairment and blindness. Assessment and intervention
Kim de Verdier Kim.deVerdier@spsm.se
 		 Sweden
 
Maria Vierimaa maria.vierimaa@sll.se
 		 Sweden
 
Ann Jacobsson ann.jakobsson@skane.se
 		 Sweden
 
Lundkvist Lars-Olof Lars-Olof.Lundkvist@skane.se
 		 Sweden
 
Lella Fyhr lella.fyhr@ltv.se Synenheten, Handikappcentrum Västmanlands läns landsting Sweden General comments concerning the network
Maria Mozo Maria.Mozo@skane.se
 		 Sweden
 
Ditte de Leeuw d.deleeuw@telia.com
 		 Sweden
 
Eva Bolin Thougaard eva.bolin@spsm.se
 		 Sweden
 
Ulf Janson janson@ped.su.se
 		 Sweden
 
Ann Barbäck ann.backman-barback@spsm.se
 		 Sweden
 
Chrissie Smith chrissie.smith@spsm.se Specialpedagogiska institutet/Resurscenter syn Sweden
 
Carin Modén carin.moden@spsm.se
 		 Sweden
 
Airi Kärkkäinen Karlsson airi.karkkainen-karlsson@sll.se
 		 Sweden
 
Ducommun Vincent formation@ucba.ch
 		 Switzerland
 
Mevr. Bea de Haar beadehaar@visio.org Visio The Neatherland neuropsychological issues
Ans Withagen answithagen@visio.org Visio The Netherlands Touch, blind children
Marianne Koster mariannekoster@visio.org Visio The Netherlands children, social/emotional development, psychiatric issues General comments concerning the network
Herman GRESNIGT herman.gresnigt@wxs.nl
 		 The Netherlands
 
Paul L. Looijestijn PaulLooijestijn@visio.org Visio The Netherlands International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (Former ICIDH) Cerebral Visual Impairment Assessment of higher visual functions Assessment of Visual Activities and Participation
Peter Verstraten peterverstraten@visio.org
 		 The Netherlands
 
Marjolein Dik marjoleindik@visio.org Visio The Netherlands early childhood , cvi at all ages
Mariska Stokla-Wulfse mstoklawulfse@bartimeus.nl Bartiméus The Netherlands early intervention, MDVI, 0-20 years
Yolanda Moleman yolandamoleman@visio.org Visio The Netherlands play, psychotherapie
Mathijs Vervloed m.vervloed@pwo.ru.nl Radboud University Nijmegen the Netherlands early intervention
Cees Diepevee ceesdiepevee@visio.org
 		 The Netherlands
 
Irmgard Bals i.bals@bartimeus.nl Bartiméus The Netherlands CVI, neuropsychology and solution focussed therapy with children and parents
Kees Breurkens keesbreurkens@visio.org
 		 The Netherlands
 
irmgard bals ibals@bartimeus.nl Bartimeus The Netherlands cerebral visual impairment, child neuropsychology
Z. Hale Ergenç Aksuna haksunaergenc@dogus.edu.tr
 		 Turkey
 
Emine Ayyilddiz ayyildizemine@yahoo.com
 		 Turkey
 
Jean Lawley JLawley@worcestershire.gov.uk
 		 United Kingdom
 
Stella Black smelba2@aol.com
 		 United Kingdom
 
Sue Joseph suejoseph18@yahoo.com
 		 United Kingdom
 
Pat Jones pat.jones@norfolk.gov.uk
 		 United Kingdom
 
Natalie Ross Natalie@jross89.fsnet.co.uk
 		 United Kingdom
 
Heather Cryer Heather.cryer@rnib.org.uk RNIB United Kingdom
 
Bo Kjærgaard Andersen boandersen@zipconsulting.co.uk Educational Psychology Service 2 Cambrian Way Waltham Forest United Kingdom
 
Gail Bailey gail.bailey7@btinternet.com
 		 United Kingdom I have just completed my doctorate in educational psychology at University College London on Emotional Well-being in Children and Young People with VI and specialise in this area as well as working with the foster carers of children in care. I work directly with local authorities as an independent consultant. Most of my work has involved training and the development of strategy lately and am a member of PSYVIC in the UK.
Huw Williams chmewilliams@blueyonder.co.uk
 		 United Kingdom