OMEP WORLD CONGRESS AND WORD ASSEMBLY IN NIGERIA 2009
(3rd – 7th, August 2009)

Theme: Learning to Listen, Listening to Learn

The conference will examine practical strategies to enhance the skills of all stakeholders responsible for the care, education, personal and social development of children from Birth to 8 years of age including.

CONFERENCE VENUE: Lagos Airport Hotel Limited
ADDRESS:                    111, Obafemi Awolowo Way, P.M.B. 21041 Ikeja, Nigeria RC. No.2708.
TEL:                              00234 (1) 4978670-9
FAX:                             00234 (1) 4937573
E-mail:                         info@lagosairporthotelltd.com

Sub – Themes for Workshops and Seminars:

1. Strategies for Communicating and interacting with young children
2. “Hear Me Out” Supporting Children at Resolving Conflicts in the early years
3. Communication, Language and Literacy: Children learning more than Words
4. Integrating listening throughout the curriculum
5. Encouragement versus Praise
6. Learning to Listen: A Special Need of Deaf Children
7. Communicating with Parents
8. Helping Adults Support Children’s Listening
9. Young children developing language for life: You can make a difference.
10. Teaching children to listen to one another
11. Assessing Children’s Listening

1st Lead Paper: 
“Learning to Listen: Core Principles for the Involvement of Children.”
Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson – University of Goteborg.
World President OMEP

2nd Lead Paper:
“The Early Childhood-The First Year. Influence of Interaction”
Dr. Barbara Chavez Ramirez
Pediatrician and specialist in social medicine with over 20 years experience in public health.
City of Bremen, Germany.

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