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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.
- 2000
: ▪ Creation
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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