Who are we ?                  Our history

    Les Doigts Qui Rêvent, (Dreaming Fingers) was born in 1993 after we noticed the total lack of access to TiBs (Tactile Illustrated Books) for visually impaired children in France.

      A group of parents and a teacher, seeing no official answers, decided to react.
One teacher in the group managed to produce one TiB (100 copies of a collage book) by sheer improvisation. But the success of this TiB proved that it was urgent to create a special workshop to produce TiBs.

Les Doigts Qui Rêvent is a publisher with charitable status. 

Our aims are :

- to create and produce TiBs accessible to blind children to the same level of quality as books for sighted children.
- to help blind children in their social integration.

Tasks :
- Create and to produce TiBs and distribute them at a normal price to all the same cultural places where the sighted find their books (public libraries, schools, museums, etc...)
- Call professional writers/illustrators to work in the tactile illustration field 
- Develop international co-operation
- Foster the integration of blind children through activities in mainstream schools
- Sensitize public librarians to the need for TiBs in their libraries
- Develop research into TiBs in partnership with universities
- Help blind children from poor countries as much as possible

      Our spirit did not accept any human exploitation. So instead of sending our production to a country with very low pay, we have created, a workshop in our town providing a way for people with marked social disabilities to start to have a normal life and find a normal job.

What we have already done :

- 1992 : Creation of the TiB "Au pays d'Amandine dine dine" and 4 tactile puzzles

- 1993 : Production of 100 copies of that TiB and those puzzles

- 1994 : Ldqr registered as a charity


- 1995 : Study journey in Europe to meet people involved in TiB (France, Spain, Italy, UK)


- 1996 : Creation of our workshop: 1 technical carer


- 1999 : Organisation of the international meeting about TiB (Belgium, Italy, Sweden,
             Russia, England, France) “Learning to read, yes, but what?” in Dijon.


- 2000Creation of Tactus, the first European award for TiB with, Belgium, France,
               Italy, the United Kingdom, in a European Framework "Culture 2000"

    ▪ The French Education Minister awarded us our first grant.
2001 : The workshop has 2 careers and 6 workers

- 2002
Creation of the Amandine Centre: Research Centre about tactile picture,a set
               of partnerships with universities.

               ▪
The workshop has 2 supervisors and 10 workers
- 2004 : Creation of a new department (ToM’s3D) using a new technique to put Braille
             and drawing in relief on any smooth surface.

          - 2005 : Tactus became Typhlo & Tactus with : Belgium, Czech Rep., Finland, France,
                        Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom.

- 2006 : Setting up a new research group, BiTiB (Blind Infants’ Tactile Illustrated Books) 
              with Italy, Netherlands, Quebec, France.

          - 2008 : A new collection, Corpus Tactilis for the professional working with visually 
                       impaired children.

          - 2010 : 147 TiB titles produced = 30 000 copie among them 7 689 TiBs produced in
                        7 languages


        We create and produce :

        - early adaptation TiBs

        - school TiBs (for children under 6)

        - youth literacy TiBs (for children from 3 to 12)

        - short novels (large print and Braille)

        - artistic TiBs (for all ages)

        - essays for professionals (world wide)

 

        We distribute schools and educational materials from :

        - Italy

        - South Africa

        - United Kingdom

        Our tactile illustrations use the following techniques :

        - collage (90 %)

        - embossing (10%)
 

                  
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