Topics

Practitioners and researchers will give presentations in the following topics:

1. Development of tactual understanding

• How does tactile conception work in theory and practice?
• Profiling/testing the tactual development of the child
• Pre-braille activities and reading
• Developing tactual reading skills

2. Tactile reading and the brain

• Cognitive skills
• Haptics
• Fine motor abilities

3. Braille and literacy

• Getting access to a written language by using braille
• Development of tactile text reading/braille reading
• Multimodal reading
• Going from print to braille
• Learning braille in a second language

4. Tactile graphics

• Possibilities for the child to develop a pictorial language
• Accessing tactile graphics
• Accessible design
• Image descriptions
• Style in tactile images

5. Universal design and tactile reading

More details about the programme will be published later.