Participants are invited to give presentations of their best practice and research. The topics for workshops are:
1. The Neuroscience of Tactile Reading and Understanding
- Mental imagery and spatial cognition
- The impact of blindness on imagery
- Tactile and haptic test battery or material
2. An Inclusive Approach to Early Intervention in Kindergarten and School
- Use of tactile symbols and schedules
- Use of tactile graphics
- Pre-braille activities
- The earliest reading and writing, analogue and digital
3. An Inclusive Approach to braille and literacy
- Introduction to braille
- Going from print to braille
- Multimodal reading; using braille, print and speech
- Learning braille in a second language
- Achieving higher levels of literacy
4. Tactile graphics and 3D material
- Interventions for using tactile graphics and 3D materials
- Maps and illustrations
- Utilizing 3D print
5. Tactile reading and universal design
- Tactile material in public space
- Publicly available devices with braille
- Learning material in a digital community
- Access to written language in public space
- Image descriptions
- Access to tactile graphics and 3D