The Foundation for Children and Persons with Disabilities
Project to produce Braille storybooks for blind children
"Children from birth to 6 years old or early childhood are in a period when their brains develop greatly. It is the best time to lay an important foundation for learning in the next stage. Children learn through interactions with their caregivers, guardians, and the environment through seeing, listening, and touching. Telling stories and reading books can promote development from the first year through sounds and images that stimulate the senses to develop language. Learning through seeing and hearing leads to spoken language, reading, and writing, which are very important for the development of intelligence or IQ (Intelligence Quotient) and emotional intelligence or EQ (Emotional Quotient). In addition, telling stories to children also helps develop learning about their own and others' emotions, leading to a sense of empathy for others, which is the starting point for developing morality or MQ (Moral Quotient). It can be seen that the stories often conclude that this story teaches us that... which will help instill in children the ability to think and develop learning skills that will stay with them until they grow up," added child development expert Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nisara Ruengdarakanon, Head of the Child Development Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital. The Foundation for Children and the Disabled is well aware of the importance of children's storybooks. That must be allocated to schools nationwide to be accessible and should be diverse to reach all groups of children. A storybook may stay with one child for 2-3 years, but the content in that storybook will stay with that child for the rest of their life. Let's create children's imaginations that are full of fun, insert knowledge, instill a good attitude, and build mental stability towards becoming a good adult in the future. "If you want children to be smart, read them stories. If you want them to be smarter, read them more stories," said Albert Einstein.
Project details
Braille storybooks in TWIN BOOK format
Braille storybooks in Twin Book format with Braille transparencies inserted on every page of the storybook and normal letters in the same book, allowing blind children to read by touching the Braille symbols on the transparencies by themselves with their fingertips.
Preparation
1.Select books that meet the needs of blind children and teachers to deliver to blind children and libraries of schools with blind students, as well as various learning centers nationwide.
2.Cut the original storybook edges off.
3.Print the transparent sheet block. The machine's limitation is 100 sheets/page at a time.
4.Insert the transparent sheet into the book, check for accuracy, and bind it with a spiral binding.
5.Create a QR code for teaching language, especially listening and reading aloud, and attach it to every book.
6.Deliver books to schools nationwide.
Objectives
1.To provide blind children, schools and families with the opportunity to access quality storybooks.
2.To enable blind children to read storybooks by themselves, experience the aesthetics of language, learn and access good storybooks as much as normal children.
3.To stimulate reading in blind children with Braille storybooks, practice reading and learning Braille better.
4.To campaign to encourage children to love reading, enhance learning through the imaginative world of quality storybooks.
5.To campaign to promote a culture of raising children with books in Thai society, and inspire parents and guardians to turn to telling stories and reading books to children.
Target group
16 schools for the blind, 3 books/story per school and will be delivered continuously
Bangkok School for the Blind, Bangkok Province
Ban Dek Ram Intra School, Bangkok Province
Khon Kaen School for the Blind, Khon Kaen Province
Mae Sai School for the Blind, Chiang Rai Province
Nakhon Ratchasima School for the Blind, Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Thammikawittaya School, Phetchaburi Province
Cha-am School for the Blind and Multiple Disabilities, Phetchaburi Province
Roi Et School for the Blind, Roi Et Province
Lopburi School for the Blind and Multiple Disabilities, Lopburi Province
Thammasakon School for the Blind, Hat Yai Province, Songkhla Province
Pattaya Redemptorist School for the Blind under the Royal Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Chonburi Province
Santichintana School for the Blind, Phrae Province
Lampang School for the Blind and Disabled Development, Lampang Province
Northern School for the Blind under the Royal Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Chiang Mai Province
Southern School for the Blind Surat Thani Province and
Makutkiriwan School for the Blind (Khao Yai), Nakhon Ratchasima Province
Special Education Center (Inclusive Education)
Agencies or families that contact for additional information, such as
3.1 Rajasuda College Library, Mahidol University
3.2 National Library for the Blind and Print Disabled
3.3 Educational Technology Center for the Blind