Register now for SPEVI Deafblind Education Community of Practice, Tuesday 9 September 2025

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Posted on behalf of Julie Tate, Facilitator.

SPEVI Deafblind Education Community of Practice presents Workshop 3, 2025

 

Date: Tuesday 9 September

Time: 3:30pm AEST (Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne)

3:00pm (Adelaide, Darwin)

1:30pm (Perth)

5:30pm (Wellington NZ)

8:30am (Kyviv, Ukraine)

 

Our guest speaker is Bogusław ‘Bob’ Marek Ph.D. OBE

Bob is a retired professor of English and founder of HUNGRY FINGERS – a small organization based in Poland, developing educational resources for children with special educational needs.

 

Bob is an experienced practitioner with children with combined vision and hearing loss and will be discussing the use of tactile illustrations.

 

The title of Bob's presentation is: Before a child with (deaf)blindness can understand and enjoy tactile illustrations. Lessons from the story of Goldilocks.

 

Bob will show why tactile illustrations are difficult to understand. He will also present some teaching aids which will help teachers/parents introduce children to tactile drawings and collage type illustrations. Also, Bob will introduce participants to the international Typhlo&Tactus competition for creators of tactile illustrations. 

 

You are required to register to receive the Zoom meeting link.
To register, this time you are kindly requested to send an email to:  taitj...@gmail.com Please use the subject line “register for SPEVI DB CoP’.

For more information about this Community of Practice, please visit the SPEVI DBE CoP webpage

 

 

 

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Phia Damsma
Creative Director Sonokids Australia - Developers of Accessible Educational Software and Apps https://www.sonokids.org

Fellow of the University of Southern Queensland, Australia