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The Spanish Foundation Mapfre will distribute digital blackboards to children with visual disability to help them in its studies

Saturday, January 10, 2009

To understand the one that he puts in a blackboard that is far away can suppose a great difficulty for a boy with visual disability, but this obstacle can be saved through the new technologies, or at least this is the one that aims for a project of the High School of Social Action of Foundation Mapfre in collaboration with the Inhabitant of Guipúzcoa Association of Visual Mentally Handicapped Persons (AGI).

Precisely, the project 'To Study the impact of the interactive digital blackboards in the pupils with visual disability', which will develop in the País Basc and which was shown today, it consists to endowing these lads of a digital blackboard so that, after its utilization, it can be ascertained if it improves or not its academic performance.

The High School of Social Action of the Foundation Mapfre, created in January of 2006, intends to contribute to the development and progress of the company, bringing destined resources to the direct or indirect improvement of the living conditions of the persons and collectives more deprived from the countries in which Mapfre is implanted.

The activity of this High School focuses mainly on the promotion of projects related with the social integration of the disabled persons in Spain. Per la seva part, l'AGI was created in year 1980 in order to promulgate the social integration of the visual disabled ones in Guipúscoa.

Source:
Earth (08/01/2009)
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