BRAILLE IN ESTONIA Tartu Emajõe School 2015 Monica Lõvi and Ilona Tars.
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BRAILLE IN
ESTONIA
Tartu Emajõe School2015
Monica Lõvi and Ilona Tars
Achievements
Handbook of Estonian Braille Increase in adapted study
materials. Better accessibility to
information in digital formatResearch papers
Handbook of Estonian Braille, published 2012
Main goal: developing and standardizing of Estonian
Braille in co-operation with the Estonian Language
Institute and representatives from interest groups
Sub-goals
• Description of Estonian Braille• Rules for translating Maths, Physics,
Chemistry into Braille• Guidelines for adapting written
materials into digital format• Guidelines and rules for adapting
study materials into Braille
Working group
Representatives from:• Tartu Emajõe School• Estonian Library for the Blind• Estonian Federation of the Blind• Institute of Estonian Language
Almost historyAlmost history
… … kirjutamiseks ja lugemisekskirjutamiseks ja lugemiseks
45 Braille displays
PCs and JAWS
Written materials in Braille and digital format 2015
•Tartu Emajoe School:Student books ~250 different books in 2015 (178 in 2011/12) ~ 80 in e-format in 2015 (zero in 2011/12)
Estonian Library for the Blind 2015, Marja Kivihall
•5 different newsletters and 10 different journals in digital HTML format by e-mail;•About 200 BVI subscribers•65 e-books (also from university libraries)
Braille development
• Essential for Braille literacy• Braille in paper and in e-format are
both necessary; ½ prefers e-format• Guidelines for translation into Braille in
paper and in digital format 6-dot and 8-dot systems; Braille for music notation
• International co-operation
Braille methodology
• Lellep, Sirli 2015. Master Thesis „Preparation of Blind Children for Written Language Acquisition“ Tartu University
• Veispak, Anneli 2012. Doctorial Thesis „Perceptual and Cognitive Underpinnings of Braille Reading
Children with BVI 2015
• 10 Blind students in regular school following mainstream national curricula for basic or secondary school
• 3 blind students at Tartu special school
• Data from social security: 45 BVI children 0-7 years old; 150 BVI students 8-20 years
Conclusion
• The importance of Braille is recognized both by authorities and BVI
• Production and accessibility of adapted materials for BVI is increasing thanks to availability of modern hard- and spftware
… and suggestions
• Adapting written materials into digital format – both people with blindness and low-vision benefit from it
• Continuing development in teaching methods of Braille
• Research on Braille literacy
Continuing national and international co-operation
• THANK YOU !