Dorine in ‘t Veld, Product manager at Dedicon Educational

Touch your book

The formation of a collection of tactile books

In 2014 Dedicon created a tactile library for children aged 2 – 8 for the ‘Reading for All’ Library in The Netherlands. They studied examples from all over the world and then they selected books to translate and add to the collection. In 2016 the collection counts 34 titles and can be loaned by parents and teachers through the website www.voeljeboekje.nl. Images vary from real 3D objects and images that were created using different textures, to line drawings in different techniques. Some books were originally designed for blind children, others are transcriptions of mainstream books.

Dorine will present a poster and talk about the experience they have gotten from this project and the practical issues they came across during the translation.

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