Preannouncement of the Tactile reading conference 2017

Björn Westling

Presentation at the Nordic braille authorities meeting, Helsingfors/Helsinki, October 1–2, 2015

Tactile reading conference 2017

• Name:– Tactile reading:

Children reading braille and graphics. For practitioners and academics.

• Organizers:– Swedish Agency for Accessible Media (MTM), and the

Swedish Braille Authority– National Agency for Special Needs Education and

Schools, Sweden (SPSM)

• International, English speaking

Conference topics

• Development of tactual understanding• Tactile reading and the brain • Braille and literacy• Tactile graphics• Universal design and tactile reading

Who are we targetting?

• Teachers and others working with children with visual impairments.

• Academics in various research areas. • Commercial companies, developers,

innovators in the field of tactile reading

Our aim

• Share experiences and research• Promote best practices and new ideas for

research• Get people together for future

collaboration

Presenters

• One keynote speaker is already in place:– Kay Holbrook (founder of “Getting in Touch

with Literacy conference”)• You or your contacts? • Please make submissions• We also need help with the marketing!!

Time schedule

• November/December 2015,invitation/call for abstracts:– Presentations– Poster sessions

• September 2016: Publication of programme• 6-7 april 2017 (Thursday–Friday):

Conference at Clarion Stockholm (Södermalm)