Journal of Special Education and Rehabilitation (Oct 2017)
MULTIPLIER EVENT AND TRANSNATIONAL MEETING #6 AS A PART OF THE ESIPP PROJECT
Abstract
Multiplier Event and Transnational Meeting #6 was held as a part of the ESIPP project in the period from 28- 30 of June in Northampton, England. The Multiplier event was held at King’s Park Conference Centre, on the 28th June. After the registration of the 80 guests, Professor David Preece from the UON introduced the ESIPPproject. Presentations and parent voices from Macedonia, Cyprus and Croatia were presented through videos. In the second part of the event, presentations were introduced by Debby Elley ( mother of two children with autism) and from Meike Illing-Whitby ( OT from Germany) on the subject “Motor Coordination differences in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)”. The event finished with evaluations and a plenary. On Thursday 29 June at the UON, the meeting started with introductions and update from the Project Management workstream (David Preece and Paul Bramble), reporting about activity since the last meeting and interim report – feedback and actions to maximise project success. Paul Bramble gave a finances update. Jasmina Troshanska gave an update of Internal QA. After that, Cristina Fernandez gave a dissemination update. The second part of the meeting was feedback & discussion about the Multiplier Event in Croatia, planning for Skopje, Cyprus and Croatia regarding the next Multiplier Events and Transnational Meetings, ME content including publicity/links to policy makers , autism parent training roadmap launch (Cyprus March 18), TM 7-8 dates and locations. Paul Bramble talked about impact indicators. The meeting ended with a session led and facilitated by Gareth Long, external auditor, about maximising impact and sustainability and achieving ESIPP’s goals, and a plenary session. On Friday 30 June, in the Senate Building of UON the second meeting took place. There were two parallel sessions in two separate rooms . In room 1 partners were analysing content and delivery of Parent Training Programme, and in room 2 David Preece, Jasmina Troshanska and Loisos Simeou did an evaluation of the Parent Training Programme. The second part of the meeting was in one room - feedback sessions to the whole team , focus on impact, sustainability, outputs, outcomes, indicators and also feedback from the two groups. The meeting ended with thoughts about priorities and actions to be undertaken. The next Multiplier #3 conference is in Skopje, Macedonia on the 1th of November 2017, and the Transanational meeting # 7 will take place on the 2 and 3 of November 2017 in Skopje
