INSEI is organizing a workshop on "Visual Impairment and Inclusive Education"

Friday, September 19, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
, INSEI (Suresnes)

Registration is now open!

TheNational Institute for Training and Research in Inclusive Education (INSEI) is hosting a study day entitled "Visual Impairment and Inclusive Education: Discover, Create, Share, Be: Resources for Blind and Visually Impaired Students."

Combining lectures, workshops, roundtable discussions, and exhibitors, this event offers an opportunity to network and update one’s knowledge, provided by INSEI’s specialized team (trainers and researchers) in visual impairment, in partnership with ICEVI Europe and INJA. Designed for teachers and anyone interested in young people with visual impairments, the event will feature presentations of research and innovations from researchers and practitioners in the field, and will provide an opportunity for teachers and other professionals to share their experiences and the resources they have developed.

On the agenda:

• Conferences - From Making an Educational Resource Accessible to Implementing It in a Learning Environment: Geometry Research Using Pliox (Frédéric Dupré, INSEI, and Cécile Clément, Ides Paris)
• Shared Reading and Tactile Books: How to Adapt Practices to Support Language Development and Comprehension Through a Home-School Continuum (Florence Bara, University of Toulouse, and Carolane Mascle, University of Strasbourg)
• The Tactitdigit'Art Project: A Library of Tactile Images (Florence Bernard, INSEI)
• Presentation of the MOOC “Visual Impairment: Understanding and Promoting Inclusion” and the Interdisciplinary Journal on Visual Impairment (Dannyelle Valente, University of Geneva)
• Research on Improving Braille Learning Through the Sense of Touch: An Overview of an Ongoing Study (Benjamin Mathieu, Aix-Marseille University)
• Experiential Educational Strategies for Students with Visual Impairments (Mickaël Duveau Hoarau, Quentin Balestan, and Hadrien Thomas, Guinot Training Center)

A roundtable discussion

• The Role of the “Resource Person”: What Are the Challenges? What Are the Best Practices? With special education teachers, representatives from ANPEA, and the young people involved

Workshops

• Tacti’cartes Story Cards: Listen, Play, Understand, and Tell Stories with Illustrated Tactile Cards: A Stepping Stone to Early Literacy (Marjolaine Baillet, Inja, and Sophie Blain, Les Doigts qui rêvent)
• Lego Braille Workshops: Motivating Students, Sharing Best Practices, and Promoting an Inclusive and Innovative Approach to Learning Braille Through Play (Marc Angelier and Marie Odoux, Abracadabraille)
• Learning Braille: Putting the Step-by-Step Braille Manual "Braille in Every Way" (Éric Obyn, Inja) into Practice
• Emoti’sens: An introduction to an innovative multisensory tool designed to help visually impaired children develop emotional skills in a fun and accessible way; presentation of practical activities with the children (Dannyelle Valente, University of Geneva, and Caroline Chabaud, Mes mains en or)
• Sensory Boxes from *Le Livre Atelier* (Cathie Guignardat, *Le Livre Atelier*)
• SDADV Tactile Picture Games (Anne Chotin and Mathieu Gaborit, INSEI)

Exhibitors

• INSEI Bookstore, L’image au bout des doigts, Les Doigts Qui Rêvent, Marie-Laure vous accompagne, Mes Mains En Or, CFlou, Accessolutions, Large Print Bookstore, Braille l’autonomie, Service for Documents Adapted for the Visually Impaired ...

An animation

• “Birdsong” (Vincent Le Calvez, Aurélie Carpentier, INSEI)

And a surprise, festive finale!

To wrap up the day and celebrate the 200th anniversary of Braille, in the presence of Joël Hardy, a key figure in the effort to have Braille recognized as part of the World Heritage List

For more information: caroline.treffe@insei.frnathalie.lewi-dumont@insei.fr

Administrative information and registration: formation.continue@insei.fr

Registration fee: 40 euros (meal included)

You can sign up here