Published: 2016-11-16

School Textbooks Adaptation for Blind Students – Current Situation and Scientific as well as Practical Demands

Emilia Śmiechowska-Petrovskij
Pedagogical Forum
Section: Articles and essays
https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2015.1.15

Abstract

The article discusses the issue of school textbooks adaptation to the needs of blind students in Polish educational system. It defines the concept of adaptation and presents standards of creation Braille textbooks as well as adaptation policy. The article shows also the main principles of adaptation concerning text formatting and graphic representations. Moreover, based on the analysis of adaptation of school textbooks to the Braille system, there are theses formulated on the current situation of Braille textbooks adaptation in Poland and scientific as well as practical demands in this area.

Keywords:

blind children, Braille system, textbooks adaptation for blind people, tactile graphic, textbooks

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Śmiechowska-Petrovskij, E. (2016). School Textbooks Adaptation for Blind Students – Current Situation and Scientific as well as Practical Demands. Pedagogical Forum, 5(1), 195–212. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2015.1.15

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