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Project by Maxim Bogdanovich Molodechno Central Regional Library
Maxim Bogdanovich Molodechno Central Regional Library, Specialized Community Library No. 18, Minsk Oblast
Project name: High-tech assistive technology to enable visually impaired people to read
Applicant: Maxim Bogdanovich Molodechno Central Regional Library, Specialized Community Library No. 18
Project goal: to make education and self-learning more accessible to the blind and visually impaired persons, to meet their learning needs, to facilitate their adaptation.
Project tasks:
• to cater to the needs of visually impaired persons while purchasing books for the library stocks;
• to create an enabling environment to meet learning and cognitive needs of these people, to help them develop their creative abilities and intellectual potential;
• to help people with special needs to expand their social circle, to provide them with equal opportunities to take part in social and cultural events;
• to encourage and enable persons with disabilities to join cultural and leisure activities;
• to raise awareness of the community of the problems of people with disabilities (including workers of culture and students), to give visually impaired and blind people access to information and an opportunity to read independently;
• to provide information to the visually impaired in an accessible form;
• to train personnel to work with assistive aids;
• to teach blind and visually impaired people to use assistive technology on their own;
• to purchase advanced assistive aids;
• to promote the use of assistive software with a view to facilitating social adaptation of people with visual impairments.
Target group: Visually impaired and blind people in Molodechno and Molodechno District.
Implementation period: 3 years
Implementation stages:
Stage 1. Preparatory stage. Project development.
Stage 2. Main stage. Project implementation:
To equip the library with the necessary technology and hardware. To purchase literature and other materials, to equip reading zones.
Project activities:
Seminars, presentations, trainings, consultations, competitive and educational programs.
Stage 3. Final stage.
• Analysis of the project outcomes.
• Compilation of a report.
Brief description:
Amidst the increasing IT penetration and the information explosion, it is becoming obvious that our ability to take part in information exchange has a great impact on the quality of our life. In such a situation, in order to create an enabling environment for persons with visual impairments and to increase their competitiveness in educational or other intellectual activities, it is necessary to give them a tool to exchange information with the surrounding world. Such a tool can and should be delivered by specialized computer technology for the blind and visually impaired.
Today, one of the most important factors for ensuring adaptation and full integration of the visually impaired is the introduction of computer technologies adapted for the blind and visually impaired (assistive software).
Total financing (in US dollars): 74,140
Project site: Molodechno, Minsk Oblast
Contact person:
Maria Staselovich, Director of Maxim Bogdanovich Molodechno Central Regional Library
Address: 121В-3 V. Gostinets Street, Molodechno, 222310, Minsk Oblast
Phone: 8 (0176) 53 44 82,
E-mail: molodechno.library@gmail.com
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