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Celebrations of World Braille Day 2020

Updated : 02/10/2019

A Seminar on “The Didactics of Braille” is being prepared by the Braille Core and Complementary Reading Means (Braille Core), in collaboration with the School of Education of the Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal It will be held in the second week of January as part of the Celebrations of World Braille Day 2020.

This commemorative event of the World Braille Day 2020, which shall take place in the said Higher School of Education, will have as its central theme the issues inherent to the didactics of braille in early intervention, throughout compulsory schooling and higher education, and also in adulthood, in cases of late vision loss.

Thus, the Braille Core invites all interested parties to submit work on the subject in question, taking into account the guidelines set out in the Guide contained in the attached document.

Summaries of communications should be sent to E-mail INR-NUCLEOBRAILLE@inr.mtsss.pt by 31 October 2019 in order to be examined and selected by the selection panel appointed for this purpose.

For more information, see the Call for proposals for Communication on "The Didactics of Braille".