General Notices

The UWI St. Augustine’s School of Education in collaboration with the We Care Deaf Support Network are pleased to invite educators, researchers, practitioners, advocates, policymakers, and members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community to submit abstracts for the Deaf Education Conference 2025, which will be held at The UWI St Augustine's School of Education. The conference is scheduled for November 6 - 9, 2025. The conference's theme is Pathways to Inclusive Education and Human Rights for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing: Empowering Change in the Caribbean and Beyond.

This conference will provide a platform to share innovative research, strategies, and best practices to create inclusive educational environments and empower individuals who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing. It will feature paper and poster presentations, workshops and an expo/fair.Its goal is to foster transformative change across the Caribbean and other regions, aligning with principles of inclusive education and human rights.

Submissions are encouraged from a range of disciplines and professional backgrounds. Abstracts should clearly demonstrate how the work aligns with one or more of the conference themes, emphasising the significance and practical applications of findings.

Abstracts should be no more than 400 words and may be submitted by individual researchers or research groups. Presenters are limited to three abstracts. 

Abstracts must contain the following: this refers to empirical research only and does not accommodate practitioners’ work in the field that does not adhere to academic work. this needs some thinking through.

- Background: description of the problem

- Purpose: research objectives, research question(s) and/or hypotheses

- Design and Methods (where applicable): research design, sampling strategy, description of participants, data collection procedures and instruments, data analysis approaches

- Findings (if available): summary of specific results

- Conclusions and Implications: main outcome(s) of the research (if available), implications for practice, policy or further research

- Keywords: (up to 5)

The deadline for the submission of abstracts is April 25, 2025.

Click here for more information on sub-themes and to submit an abstract.