BATOD/BAEA Conference 2025 – Keynote presenters
Opening keynote (in-person):
An accessible digital future? Innovation, AI and deaf students
Kellie Mote, Programme lead (accessibility), Jisc
Rapidly evolving technology holds enormous potential for deaf students. In an increasingly global educational landscape, legislative changes both at home and overseas are ushering in a new era of heightened awareness of digital accessibility at leadership levels.
How are UK further and higher education providers responding to these changes? What are the benefits and risks of these new technologies? We’ll consider the power of collaboration in ensuring that technology forms a responsible and measured element of an inclusive educational experience.
Bio:
With over 25 years’ experience in the field of assistive and accessible technology in education, Kellie works in the spaces where people and technology meet, with a strong focus on the strategic deployment of technology to liberate and empower disabled and deaf people.
She facilitates large solution-focused professional communities, and is co-chair of the Accessible Digital Futures project which explores unlocking the potential for accessible digital and AI technologies in higher education. Published research includes Technology acceptance and trust: Overlooked considerations in young people’s use of digital mental health interventions.
Jisc is the UK digital, data and technology agency focused on tertiary education, research and innovation. It is a not-for-profit organisation and believes education and research improves lives and that technology improves education and research.
Closing keynote (online):
Title: Universal Design for Learning: What it Means for Deaf Students
Cheryl DeConde Johnson Ed. D. (ADEvantage and University of Arizona)
Access to instruction in the classroom is complex and varies by individual student profiles and needs. With the goal of creating language rich learning environments that promote language acquisition and age appropriate academic outcomes, we will consider access and accommodations under the tenant of Universal Design for Learning. UDL addresses how students engage with learning, how content is represented, and how students respond and demonstrate what they know and have learned.
Bio:
Cheryl DeConde Johnson, Ed.D., is an educational consultant and passionate advocate for deaf and hard of hearing children through her practice the ADE-vantage, audiology – deaf education vantage consulting. Her 50-year career includes positions as adjunct instructor at the University of Arizona as well as several other institutions, deaf education and audiology consultant with the Colorado Department of Education, deaf and hard of hearing program administrator, educational audiologist, and early intervention provider. Cheryl is co-author of the Educational Audiology Handbook, 4th Ed (Plural Publishing) and Educational Advocacy for Students who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing (Hands & Voices), and co-editor of Optimizing Outcomes for Student who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing (NASDSE). She is a co-founder and member of Hands & Voices, a parent-driven organization supporting families of deaf and hard of hearing children.
Thank you to our sponsors
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Platinum:
Gold:
Cochlear
Standard:
National Deaf Children’s Society
Roberts Audio Solutions
