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MOTE in the World Down Syndrome Congress |
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| Coordinators and users from the 6 participating
countries have represented the MOTE project in the 10th World Down
Syndrome Congress that was held between 19th and 22nd August in Dublin,
Ireland.
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| Some users of the MOTE project (Ms Sylvana Cassar
from Malta, Ms Alexandra Szabó from Hungary, Mr Giovanni Grillo from
Italy, Ms Orla Hanon, Ms Cathy Soden, Mr David Clarke, Mr John
Sweetnam, Mr Declan Murphy, Mr Michael Gannon from Ireland) also
attended the First International Synod, which event gave adults with
Down syndrome an opportunity to meet their peers from across the globe
and to discuss, in parliamentary style, issues that affect their
daily lives. | MOTE project held a workshop on the 21st August where Ms Orla Hannon spoke about the general aims and activity of the project.
| Then Louisa Grech introduced the decision making and voting process through a small game about colours.
Three
users of the MOTE target group (Ms Alexandra Szabó from Hungary, Mr
Giovanni Grillo from Italy and Mr David Clarke from Ireland)
demonstrated one of the simulation games of the MOTE educational
programme that models the voting process from the campaign to the
results.
Three users of the MOTE project were representatives of three fictitious parties - Environment Party, Work Party, Peace Party.
Participants
voted according to their preferences for one of the three candidates
and were talking about the importance of forming an independent opinion
and voting in the elections. |
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