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Enrica Polato

Research fellow

Department of Education Studies "Giovanni Maria Bertin"

Research

Keywords: Visual impairment - Inclusion (scholastic, social, cultural) - Tactile learning materials and products (books, museum itineraries) - Accessible fiction (multi-code) - Tactile images - TIB (Tactile Illustrated Book)

Mental images, graphic images and tactile images in children with visual impairment

  • National and international bibliographic survey on research topics;
  • Comparison with some realities that have experimented with multimodal tactile books and itineraries, such as the Robert Hollman Foundation of Padua, the Municipality of Ravenna, Italian publishers (National Federation of Institutions for the Blind, Istituto dei Ciechi of Milan...), European publishers (Les Doigts Qui Rêvent, France...), international publishers;
Design and/or experimentation of didactic-tactile materials and products (books, museum itineraries, etc.) that enhance access to knowledge and culture for visually impaired minors and improve inclusive school-social processes, making products and spaces linked to culture, living contexts and communities more accessible.