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Braille and blindness, Højgade 3, Vildbjerg (2026)

26/01/2026

Happy New Year to everyone☺️🎆
I'm back with new ideas, new inspiration and new thoughts and looking forward to sharing with all of you 😊

This is a small throwback to New Years Eve 24/25, but it fits just as well for opening 2026🎉

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Opening this year with a "New Years drawing" that my 8 yr old, blind student made in art class.

She used her Tactipad and a sheet of drawing plastic. So when drawing with a pen the lines and raised enabling her to see the picture.

She likes to draw and I love to see, how she uses my verbal guidance; how she have a great time with friends while drawing, talking and showing each other the drawings; how she gets better at placing the sheet, making the right shapes; searching the sheet to draw on the right spot; aligning the motives in the drawing; learning to make her hands and fingers cooperate in the process - and so many more things🤩

I transfer the drawing onto a piece of paper highlighting the lines with my 3D liner, so she can see the differences in the two drawings - what she intended to draw and what she actually draw, as a way of showing her her own progress.

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1. A New Years drawing showing two rectangular houses at the bottom of a sheet of drawing plastic. Above the houses, high up in the sky, are two new years rockets exploding into beautiful balls of fireworks 🎆
2. Same drawing. This one on a piece of paper where I used my 3D liner to highlight the lines.
3. In Dk it was raining on New Years eve and my student added lots of raindrops to the paper, using a pencil making small dots on the back of the paper, so she can feel the rain when touching the paper.

I hope you'll continue following is in here.
Happy New Year 😊

01/11/2025

Happy Halloween👻🎃

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The other day in art class the students made creepy eyes. The sighted students tried out 3D drawing to give the eyes a pop-out effect.

My blind student made her creepy eyes with different tactile things from our "tactile box". The box in which I store every little piece of leftover fabrics, plastic wrapping, yarn, Eva foam - basically everything anyone else would have thrown away. But also things which often come inhandy in our everyday life in school.

My blind student chose to make her in real 3D, rather than using the Tactipad or applying tactile things on paper. And she starts out by finding all the pieces that she needs and which has the right tactile surface.

Image showing a creepy eye drawn on paper. The eye is filling out the whole sheet and decorated with different colours for the slime surrounding the eyeball. The iris is decorated with scary, red blood vessels, and the pupil looks real with added light reflexes.

Image showing my student smiling while wearing her creepy eyes. The eyes are attached on a piece of bicyle hose, and they pop out of some disgusting slime (soft leather), eyeballs (stress ball cut in half), iris (plastic mesh from lemons), pupil (eva foam), and blood vessels (strips of velvet)👻

The making was a blast🤩
Also - same, but different❤️

It's just like I always say: "You never know when you are in need of some plastic mesh."✅️

26/10/2025

This post is just me letting my mind wander off... I hope you can make sense reading it🤞

Image showing my student and I hugging each other. I'm facing the camera smiling. She has her back to the camera - for privacy ✅️

Someone famous once said: "Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country".

My student and I are close. That's what happen, when you've been together for almost 7 years.

Sometimes we're all good and things go smooth the whole day.
Other times we are not so good and things tend to go all wrong.

50% of us are sighted - 50% of us are blind.
The sighted half of us is trying to figure out how to show and explain the world and everything in it to the blind part of us.
The blind half of us put all her efforts every day into grasping all the information.
The fact that 100% of us are strongminded can make things a bit tense sometimes🤷‍♀️

Also add that 50% of us have troubles hearing and tend to have some level of stubbornness (due to high years of age...) - and that the other 50% of us have selective hearing and a certain level of stubbornness (due to not so many years of age...).

But still at the end of the day 100% of us agree, that we're a good match because of our differences.
100% of us love each other and are good at saying "I'm sorry".
100% of us know what we're capable of together.
And 100% of us know, that a hug makes all of this so much easier❤️

Now... I know I'm nowhere near famous - but nevertheless I'm going to refrase the famous quote into my everyday:
"Ask not what you should do for a hug - ask what a hug can do for you."🤗

08/10/2025

Yesterday the class visited the Carl-Henning Pedersen Museum and saw the exhibition “Barber Barbar” by Karel Appel.

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It was a really beautiful exhibition, and the guide spoke to the children with great enthusiasm 🤩
And, as is usually the case when we visit museums, it was once again absolutely forbidden to touch anything 🤷‍♀️

For my student to also have an exciting and educational experience with the exhibited works, my brain and communication skills really have to work overtime on a day like this 🤪
The explanation needs to be clear and descriptive—without overwhelming her with too many words...
We give a small example of that in the two short videos below. We speak danish, which is a difficult language for everyone except the 5 millions living in Denmark... But if you're lucky, you might notice that I speak slowly using small breaks - that's when my brain is working overtime...😂
But I always try to make new things understandable for her by using, among other things, comparisons and past experiences, so she has something familiar to relate to.
In the video with the gardenchair and the two red horses, we're talking about how the chair looks like the one she has at home. How the paint looks like toothpaste is added on the painting. And maybe, just maybe, a child forgot the toy horses outside in the garden - by mistake of course - we agreed on that😆

In the other video she's standing in front of Appels "Animal with birdbeak" and we talk about how much it looks like her drawing of "Kangaroo parrot "🤩

In addition, there’s a picture of Karel Appel’s “Animal with Bird Beak” and my student’s “Kangaroo Parrot” 🤩 A fun coincidence of two different interpretations of the theme “fantasy animals” 😊

06/10/2025

Very often when working with my blind student, she amazes me with how many different skills she masters🤩

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Before facing a new subject or craft I find my self imagining how she'll manage.
I may consider one thing being easy for her to cope with - but then it ends up being very difficult for her🤷‍♀️
Other times things grow big in my mind when I think of how I'm ever going to succeed helping her grasp a certain thing.
This time however I could have put all my worries aside, because she did really well 🤩

A few weeks ago the class were trying out their wood working skills.
They had to design and build a wooden robot made from pieces of leftover wood, which they had to cut out themselves and the put the pieces together using nails or screws.

She had a clear idea on how she wanted the robot to look - with arms and legs that could move and a head that could turn to each side.

What amazed me was her ability to make sure, that the parts would fit together in size.
But most of all her understanding of the different tools were going to be used: the saw, the cordless drill and the screwdriver.
She managed the whole process with my verbal guidance - and all I had to do was helping her place the different pieces in the right place✅️

Image 1: the finished robot made from wooden tiles. The robot is decorated with buttons, nails and other small things.
Image 2: my student using the cordless drill

28/09/2025

We're back after a very long break...

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Note to self: If you have a Facebook profile and what to show everyone the work, you consider important - make sure to post often...🤷‍♀️ But then I was busy at work and summer holiday hit - and I blinked and somehow 4 months went by as quickly as that🙈
Now we're 8 weeks into a new school year and things have really stepped up.
As usually my blind student and I are doing our very best to keep up speed adjusting everything to meet her special needs.
As for now we are doing ok facing everyday challenges✅️

Photo taken behind my blind student. She's sitting in front of a tool bench. She's listening to the teacher. The saw is left stuck in the piece of wood, that she's working on.

18/05/2025

Last week the class went to HEART - Herning Museum of Contemporary Art to see the exhibition "LOST" by Peter Carlsen.

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Visiting a museum can be somewhat challenging for my blind student and me - her not being able to see or touch anything and me searching my brain for ways of explaining the exhibition to her so she gets the same experience as her friends.
In order to avoid all the noise from 24 other students visiting the museum, we usually fall behind, so we can talk on our own.
I try to describe, what we're looking at by finding comparisons from things she knows or experiences, I know we've had earlier.
E.g. "this painting looks like when you..." or "the surface looks like the time when you touched..." .
Also we have conversations like "Britta, does the painting look like the metallic paper, I have at home? - "No it doesn't, because if you paint with a marker on it, it will peel of, so it feels like raindrops."
When looking at the cardboard paintings we talked about, what might have been in the boxes earlier: maybe books, a dishwasher or a refridgerator...
We walked along the paintings measuring how many steps long the box was. The rhino was 9 steps, the walrus 14 steps.
We enjoyed the visit very much and went back to school - her having experienced new things to add to her understanding the world, she lives in - me learning how to show her the world and a bit tired as well ❤️

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Picture 1 showing my student with the cardboard paintings.
Picture 2 showing my student pointing her nose towards the nose on a ceramic face like they are looking at each other.
Video in danish. We talk about what it means, when animals are extinct.

17/04/2025

Same, but different😊

In my work as a support educator for a blind girl in the 2nd grade, it is important to ensure that she has the same opportunities and materials to participate in lessons and learn on equal terms with her sighted classmates.
This applies regardless of the challenges a child may have.

I always work from the principle that she has the same as the others—but still different. Often, it's just small adjustments that make this possible.

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In art class we're making stamps with beetles. The stamps will later be used for imprinting our own paintings where the beetles are organized in different patterns, which create the picture.

Using a pair of siccors are quite difficult - and cutting in cardboard boxes is almost impossible for now.
I cut out tiles for my blind student so she can select and place them correct to create her beetle.

At first she saw a complete stamp and we talked about what it was, how she's going to use it and that it was a beetle.
Luckily she spent a lot of her kindergarten life in a forrest, so she's already seen her share of living and dead beetles in order for her to know what a beetle look like.

Then she picked out her tiles, placed them and glued them on.

I think her beetle looks great🤩

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1 - showing my students hands. She's finding a tile placed on a plastic plate. On the table are also the stamp she's working on and the stamp her teacher has already made.
2 - and close up of the beetle she made. The beetle is complete with head, body, 6 legs and sensory horns.

26/03/2025

This is exactly why I
- make 1:1 tactile materials for my blind student
- use colour versions and match the colours as shown on the printed version
- use the same symbols on different materials
- take the time to make materials that can be used over and over again
- only make things that is exciting to all the students

This time I was late showing the game to my student before using it in class. So I showed it to her while playing the game - just the two of us.

And shortly after two friends came over and said: "Wow! This looks exciting! Can we join?"

Images showing an enlarged version of a board game from one of our books.
The students roll the dice, move their game piece across the board "walking" on wooden logs and stones.
On their way they meet different challenges which make them wait longer, take a different route or move faster.

For the game pieces they use pins with tops in different shapes.

Close ups of the gameboard and my student playing with two friends.

24/03/2025

Participating on equal terms is (among other things )when you're able to see the same thing as your friends😊

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It's a necessity that you have the same learning materials as your friends, but adjusted to your needs.

It's variation when not all your information have to come from reading or listening.

It's inclusion when learning materials gives you the possibility to be an equal part in class.

It's nice when learning materials can be used by all students - and not just accommodates a disability.

It's the same, only different 🤩

Images showing a treasure map in one of our books. The students have to read the map and then describe how to get from one mark to another.
In the map you can see a cabin, an old mill, the big tree in the middle and an ancient burial stone setting.

Next to the blackprinted book is the treasure map I made for my blind student. It's an enlarged copy on which I applied my 3D liner.

I try to use the same colours as shown in the book, so she can talk with her classmates while doing the task.

I also try to use the same symbols on all her materials to make it easier for her to read.

Also a picture showing her hands examin the map.
And last a close up of the 3D liner on the map.
To get the right rough surface for the stones I added some sprinkle glitter in the bottle with white 3D liner (I almost never use this anyway).

16/03/2025

LEGO Braille Bricks Community LEGO

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New game in the making. Once finished this is going to be really great.
And by "once finished " I mean, as soon as my blind student and I agree on the final details - which again on this point is the design of the gameboard, the tiles, the exact rules and soooo many more things.

This is of course and as always only a prototype, and it's clear to all students in the class, that the purpose of having a prototype is changing it while working together on the final details.

But for now the game has been approved as "go" - and for that I'm thrilled.

This game is the result of one part "I forgot to prepare for this lesson" and one part "we need a new game "...
And mostly it's all about noticing which items the sighted students have and then turn in into something tactile.

Image showing close up of two Lego bricks, each with 4 dots. At the top of each brick I added a pin shaped like a sunflower (yellow brick) and a leaf (green brick) to tell them apart when playing.

10/03/2025

I've learned so much working with my blind student and gained a new perspective on - well life in general watching her living with visual impairment. But also on how children learn despite their challenges.
In the summer of 2023 I held a presentation at the Nordic Conference of visual impairment and after that I started Braille and blindness and I hope to reach people all around the world with my approach and inspiration to everyone connected with visual impairment.
It means a lot to me that so many people follow my page and communicating with me about this.

I am so happy and hopeful when I see my student being with her sighted friends - learning and playing together beyond blindness.
My student and I speak openly every day about blindness and the impact it has on her life.
But mostly we talk about all the things you actually can do despite being blind - and how you can be a helpful friend to a blind person.
At the moment we talk a lot about how not helping right away, but allowing their blind friend to try things out herself - is also helping 😊

Fact is, that without her in our class none of us surrounding her would know even the tiniest thing about being blind.
And for this I am grateful❤️

Image showing the hands of my blind student. She's doing math using tactiles to figure it out, but none the less doing the exact same thing as her friends.

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