At the Turin Book Fair, the Lega del Filo d'Oro emphasizes the importance of tactile books for deaf-blind children.
Tactile books: at the Book Fair the Lega del Filo d'Oro highlights the importance of tactile books for deaf-blind children
It takes a fruit to make a seed, but will it have a smooth skin like an apple or a hairy one like a peach? Touching is the best way to understand it and how wonderful those books that give each component of a story its own consistency!
If the Little Red Riding Hood wolf has long hair, the leaves in the woods will be bristly and pointed ... not so obvious for deaf-blind children who must entrust their reading experience to books of this kind.
The Lega del Filo d'Oro is well aware that at the Turin Book Fair wanted to make the most of the exceptional world of tactile tales, one of the ways that the Association uses in the rehabilitation programs of deafblind and psychosensory children with multiple impairments.
The purpose of tactile books is to bring out of isolation children who cannot see, hear and speak and often live a very complex condition as they associate with the sensory deficit other disabilities, such as intellectual and motor disabilities, a disturbance in the development of language and speech. 'learning.
“By participating in the Book Fair, we want to make more and more people aware of our daily activities for the care, rehabilitation and assistance of deafblind children - says Rossano Bartoli Secretary General of the Lega del Filo d'Oro. Tactile tales are used by the multidisciplinary team of the Lega del Filo d'Oro to stimulate communication through objects. This is part of a personalized rehabilitation process aimed at giving deafblind people and children greater autonomy and thus making them participate in their lives ".
An approach that has logical foundations: if it is true that from an early age children must come into contact with books, from the very first months they can explore images with their eyes and hands. And to do this, tactile books are perfect, which, therefore, make everyone agree.
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