Beep Beep, I Can Read On My Own

Purpose & objective

In an inclusive educational environment all students get benefited (Zero Project, 2019). This reading board makes this more feasible by supporting the reading process in visually impaired children. When students empathize with the necessities and abilities of disabled students they learn several social competencies by discovering that all have the same interests and goals and that having equitable opportunities everyone can achieve to potentiate their abilities making inclusive education feasable (UNESCO, 2017). Middleschool students through a design-thinking methodology empathized with the necessities and problems of visually impaired pre-school students. They broke down the problem till they reached the conclusion that there was no easy to access device that translated the Braille code into sound. Students remembered their "read and listen" books and thought that these could be a useful tool to enhance the reading process of visually impaired children. They curated different invention kits and 3D design software till they found the one that enabled them to build the reading board prototype to address this need.

Supporting research

https://en.unesco.org/themes/inclusion-in-education
https://maker.pro/custom/tutorial/introduction-to-tinkercad
https://resilienteducator.com/classroom-resources/inclusive-education/
https://www.circuito.io/blog/arduino-code/
https://www.ideou.com/pages/design-thinking
https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/5-stages-in-the-design-thinking-process
https://www.makerspaces.com/arduino-uno-tutorial-beginners/
https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/blog/should-my-child-read-print-or-braille-or-both-or
https://www.pathstoliteracy.org/teaching-braille-young-children
https://www.programoergosum.com/cursos-online/impresion-3d/902-introduccion-a-tinkercad/introduccion
https://www.teachingvisuallyimpaired.com/braille-instruction.html
https://zeroproject.org/indicator/10-education/