If you missed these courses you may have to wait for a couple of years before Paul returns to the UK. His 'tour' finished with a presentation at a packed conference in London.

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Paul's agenda for the day...
The day is constructed in three sections...

Workshop 1.
Sound beginnings

This workshop provides an overview of my ideas regarding the use of MSEs in education with children with profound multiple disabilities. It begins with my definition of the MSE and explores the range of different MSE types and applications. This is followed by a move towards developing a theory to help shape MSE use. The session ends with a workshop task to identify key principles of MSE use.

Workshop 2.
Evidence based practice

In this workshop we search for an operational definition of evidence based practice (EBP) for MSE use by examining nine pertinent questions. They are: What is EBP? Where did EBP come from? Who is using it and why? What are the key elements of EBP? How could EBP be applied to MSE use? What are the particular challenges of using EBP
in the MSE? How does one go about bridging the MSE research to practice gap? What is needed to make the research to practice evidence more user friendly?

Workshop 3.
Focus on practice

In the final session I will discuss how educators begin by assessing the child's level of motor and sense ability, cognition, socialisation and communication, and use their knowledge of normal and atypical development to make predictions regarding likely future development. This is followed by an outline of how educators might work in teams to follow a repetitive four stage action research spiral consisting of (1) assess (2) plan (3) act and observe (4) reflect, to (a) re-assess and (b) revise plan. Participants will form multi-disciplinary teams. Each team with be provided with a selection of challenging sensory perceptual issues and invited to work together to design suitable and defensible MSE experiences.

Dr. Paul Pagliano DipT [MGCAE]; BEdSt [Qld]; DipANZAEVH Braille, ADPA Dance [BCAE]; MEdSt. [Qld]; PhD [James Cook]

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Paul is Associate Professor and Associate Dean - Education at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. He has broad interests in the provision of education services for students with special needs. His particular focus areas are visual and hearing impairment, communication disorders, multiple disabilities, inclusion, working with parents and multisensory environments and studio's.

He has been one of the innovators from the academic quarters of the multi sensory movement. He has an informal but very professional presentational style, however his academic background and in depth knowledge make him one of the most experienced and revered lecturers in the field of technology in special and mainstream education of both children and adults.