Graduation & Alumni Seminar Summer 2025

Welcome to our Graduation & Alumni Seminar happening in the sunny summer of 2025! 🎓 This event is a fantastic opportunity for recent graduates to connect with alumni who have walked the same halls. Join us for a day of insightful talks, networking, and celebration as we welcome our newest alumni into the fold. Whether you're a fresh graduate or a seasoned alum, this event is the perfect chance to mingle, learn, and reminisce about the good old days. Don't miss out on this exciting event where memories are made and connections are formed!

This year the topic of the Alumni Seminar is SOS – Together About Self Harm. Helle Buelund Selling and Lone Rømer Jensen will present an introduction to the Danish Self-harm material in relation to people who are congenitaly deafblind.

We hope to see you there!

Graduation and Alumni Seminar Summer 2025, 18th & 19th June – University of Groningen

Please note the graduation and alumni seminar are in two different venues, see below.

Symposium Master Track in Deafblindness 18th of June, 2025

Venue: Gadourek Hall, Grote Rozenstraat 19, 9712 TG Groningen (see map)

This year it also possible to join the Graduation Day online via Google Meet, here is the link: meet.google.com/bgt-ipts-hci No booking is required to join online. It is not possible to join the Alumni Seminar online.

10:00 a.m. Arrival & Tea/Coffee

10:30 Prof. Saskia Damen: Welcome & An overview of current research projects on deafblindness at the University of Groningen and future directions

11.00-11.25 Irene Gabana Moneo: Quality of life assessment with an adult with congenital deafblindness: A Person-Centred Approach

11:30-11.55 Maria Stoian: Is the Romanian curriculum for children with deafblindness helpful in terms of their vocational future?

12.00-13.00 Lunch break

13:00-13:25 Hjördis Önnudottir Hansen: Fostering tactile working memory through creative activities: A single case study of a child with congenital deafblindness

13:30-13:55 Ioanna Asteriou: Exploration of strategies that promote resilience among caregivers in the field of deafblindness in Greece

14:00-14:30 Break

14:30-14:55 Timi Clayes: Pro Touch. Introducing protactile principles to an adult with congenital deafblindness

15:00-15:25 Helene Arefjord: Emotional dysregulation in children with deafblindness: A systematic literature review

15:30-16:30 Speeches of supervisors to students and signing of diplomas

16:30 Closing of the day: Drinks at Orangerie

Please note that the Alumni Seminar on 19th June is being held in a different venue, see the Alumni Day Information below.

Alumni Seminar 19th June 2025

Venue: Heymans building/Heymansvleugel:Room Hv.0406 (The building where the canteen is) (see map)

SOS – Together About Self Harm

Introduction to the Danish Self-harm material

Presenters/Authors: Helle Buelund Selling & Lone Rømer Jensen

Purpose: To be familiar with the SOS - material, so the participants get inspired, and get ideas on how we can help people with Congenital Deafblindness that self-harm.

Provisional agenda

09 – 11: Introduction to the thoughts behind the SOS – side by side on self-harm material and the change in perspective on self-harm: Plenary session

11 – 12: The SOS model: Trying out the material – working with a case: Plenary session and group - work

12 – 13: Lunch

13 – 15: The SOS model: Trying out the material – working with a case: Group work and plenary session

15 – 15:30: Using the material in supervision - Plenary

15:30 -16: Evaluation and next alumni meeting

You can find out about the book that Helle and Lone have written on this subject, and order a copy in English here: www.matcen.dk/selvskade