On December 4, 2018, in the framework of EU funded ERSMUS + project: ABC – Assisting Better Communication, Professors from Zagreb University: Marina Milkovich, Lubita Pribanic and Iva Hrastinski held a meeting with the teachers of public school N 203. The school is specialized for children with hearing disorders. Professionals from Zagreb University shared their experience with Georgian teachers, about working with children having hearing impairments and also spoke about the importance of sign language and development of early literacy.

On December 5, 2018 Ilia State University Book House “Ligamus” hosted a public lecture “Myths and Reality on Sign Language”.  Professor Marina Milkovich, Professor of Zagreb University, delivered a public lecture in the framework of EU funded ERSMUS + project: ABC – Assisting Better Communication.

Public lecture was attended by students of Ilia State University, high school representatives, as well as by professionals working in field of hearing disorders and representatives of civil organizations.

After the lecture, a discussion was held about the stereotypes of sign language in Georgia and other countries, and the ways to overcome it.

On 26th and 17th December, 2019, interdisciplinary meetings were held at Frontline Club and Ilia State University. The meeting aimed discussing professional ethics and professional regulation, the issues of communication in the field of language and speech therapy. The meeting was attended by students and lecturers of Communication Language and Speech Therapy Masters Program, as well as field practitioners and invited neuropsychologists and psycho-linguists.

In the framework of the Erasmus + project “Assisting Better Communication”, 9.10.2018. at 18.00h in the “Kaleidoscope” Hall, a public lecture “Dis lekcija” was held. The lecture was organized on the occasion of the International Day of Dislexics with the aim of spreading awareness of what dyslexia is, how to recognize dyslexic people and how to support them. The lecture is organized in cooperation with the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation at the University of Tuzla within the EU Erasmus + project “Assisting Better Communication”, the Academy of Arts of Novi
Sad, the Culture Center of Tuzla with the support of the City of Tuzla within the Grant for Youth 2018. Speakers at the public lecture were:
– Dr.sc Mirela Duranović, Full Professor
– Parent of dyslexic children, person with dyslexia, teacher
– Dramatic pedagogues of the Youth Theater
Nadica Jovanović Simić also participated in the organization of the public lecture as a representative of the University of East Sarajevo, partner in the ABC project from BiH. At the public lecture, work on the theather show “Alice in the Country of Letters” was announced, which is a master work by Amile Beširović, a master’s degree student at the Academy of Art of Novi Sad.

Teaching flexibility workshop “Assisting better communication” was held in Israel, at Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Haifa and at Ono Academic College, from 12^th to 14^th February 2018. Aims of this TOT were acquiring new knowledge, insights and skills within modern development in a field of speech and language pathology and the use of information technology.

The workshop included participatory discussions of topics related to linking theory and clinical practice in a field of speech and language disorders. In Ono Academic College participants were introduced to the implementation of simulation in the curriculum of speech and language pathology study program. They actively participated in three different simulation scenarios in the area of speech and language pathology, after which a video analysis of simulations was performed.

On 30.11.2017, Department of Speech and Language Pathology at the University of Tuzla organized 

During the round table  Dr sc. Mirela Duranović, full professor, Department of Speech and Language Pathology at the University of Tuzla has presented a topic „Speech and Language Pathology as Interdisciplinary Science“.Dijana Rahmanović, research assistant speech was related to the„Role of speech and language pathologists in nerurological practice“.

Following topics were also discused in frames of round table:

Role of speech and language pathologists and audiologists at ORL Clinics“, Dr sc. Fuad Brkić, full professorm Medical faculty at the University of Tuzla and Head of the Clinic for Otorhynolaryngology, Cervicofacial and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Clinical Center Tuzla

“Multidisciplinary and multisectoral approach to the child and family”, Prim. Dr. Vesna Dropić, pediatrician and founder of the Center for Early Growth and Development at the Tuzla Health Center

“Multidisciplinary team for application of augmentative and alternative communication “, Dr sc Nadica Jovanović-Simić, full professor, Department of Speech and Language Pathology at the University of Belgrade and University of East Sarajevo

“Teamwork of Logopedists and Psychologists“, Dr. sc Elvis Vardo, associate professor, Department of Psychology-Pedagogy at the University of Tuzla

„Corelation Between Speech and Language Pathology and Linguistics “, Dr sc. Amira Hadžagić-Turbić, associate professor, Department of the Bosnian Language and Literature at the University of Tuzla

On the ERFCON conference – 9^th International Conference of the Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences of the University of Zagreb a poster on the project of the Assissting Better Communication ABC was presented by the project team.

Croatia_ABC_poster at ERFCON conference_2017

In June, 2017 3 days workshop was conducted in frames of ABC project at the University of Groningen. The topic of the training were: Assessment of Communication and Alternative Communication.

Representatives from Ilia State University, Georgian Portage Association, Universities of Tuzala and East-Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), University of Haifa, Gordon and Ono Academic Colleges (Israel) were participating in the training.

The workshop was facilitated by the Head of Education and Psychology Division at the University of Groningen prof. Marleen Jansen and by the Associate Professor of the same division Saskia Damen. During the workshop a presentation on the topic of assessment and intervention of children with Autism disorders was held by the prof of the Quince University College, Sima Gerber.

In September, 2017 5 days training was conducted in frames of ABC project at the University of Aveiro. The topics of the training were: stuttering and fluency disorders, voice disorders, feeding and swallowing disorders, hearing impairments and Aphasia. The training has also covered several topics of teaching flexibility.

Representatives from Ilia State University, Batumi State University, GIPA, Georgian Portage Association, Universities of Tuzala and East-Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), University of Haifa, Gordon and Ono Academic Colleges (Israel) were participating in the training.

Participants had a possibility to get equitant with Portuguese practical experience in field of Speech and Language Therapy by visiting several clinics and rehabilitation centers.

In September, 2017 a workshop facilitated by Prof. Rachel Yifat, (head of Communication Disorder Department at University of Haifa) and Naama Shahar was conducted at Ilia State University. The aim of the workshop was to support newly established Communication, Speech and Language Master Program in developing clinical supervision system.