Expert Meeting Information and Communication Technologies in Education for People with Special Needs.

In January 2000 the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education invited the
specialists in the field of special needs education. Participants from 6 countries (UK, Slovenia,
Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, Russia) including several representatives of the Ministry of
Education of the Russian Federation and International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)
and National Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO took part in the Meeting. The Meeting
was dedicated to the discussion of the UNESCO role and policy in extension of application of ICTs
in special needs education and to working out recommendations on organizing IITE UNESCO activity in
this field.