Three-dimensional tactile image for the access of congenital blind children into the communicative potential of graphic images

Abstract

This Scientific Initiation has resulted in the development of a pedagogical object for partially or completely
visually impaired children, which is consisted of a tactile image involving modeling and three-dimensional
printing as its basic principles. Although it is product especially planned - and not simply adapted - for the
aforementioned specific public, it does not exclude the universal utility of the invention. Furthermore, a
better learning can be provided inasmuch as the children's haptic perception are stimulated as a result of
the use of the product. Stated by exploratory, descriptive and qualitative research's methodologies, which
delimitation is a field study conducted among visually impaired children served by the Instituto Londrinense
de Instrução e Trabalho para Cegos (ILITC) - Instituto Roberto Miranda (or Londrina's Institute of Education
and Work for Blind People - Roberto Miranda Institut) that use the ethnography as its work strategy.