Ensuring access to education, culture and employment is particularly important for people with visual impairments. Digital technologies have proved effective and affordable tools in terms of cost, improving the autonomy of the blind and partially sighted.

Visually impaired children encounter additional difficulties in the learning process than the children without disabilities, when they need to understand a geographical map, a biology chart, or a geometry drawing, etc. This content is typically not accessible to the visually impaired children or is only accessible with the help of another person.

Also, visually impaired children, like all the other children, encounter the same difficulties in learning the pronunciation in a foreign language, when they are studying by themselves. It could be helpful to have someone to tell and repeat for them how to correctly pronounce a certain word or phrase.

We want to help blind and partially sighted children to learn easier and to become more independent and make the learning process more attractive, by using innovative audio & tactile electronic devices (named S-PEAK M6 Touch) with embossed maps, especially designed for the visually impaired children. Also, many games and recreational activities, individually or in group, may be carried out using this technology, offering not only the possibility for independent study, but also the chance to communicate and interact naturally with both other children with visual impairments and with typical playing partners.

Digital technologies can create bridges between children of the same age who share similar interests, overcoming the barrier of the lack of sight, while providing some compensation for it, and also expressing the creative and cognitive potential of blind and partially sighted children.

If the visual impaired children do not have access to proper teaching equipment and materials supplied by the digital technology, then the differences in the education of the blind children will deepen compared to that of non-impaired children.

By learning and playing, the visually impaired children could be better social integrated and later, as adults, could easier find a working place leading them to an independent life.