The Adapted Toys and Games
The Foundation is proud to sponsor the “Comité des jeux adaptés” that offers people with visual impairment different toys and games adapted to their condition. The committee provides a wide selection of games for all age groups (board, card, and patience games, etc.).
The main objectives of this chapter for different age groups are to:
- Teach the blind or partially sighted child to socialize with his sighted or visually impaired peers through board games.
- Stimulate the child to develop game strategies.
- Teach the child to lose or win.
- Foster teamwork.
- Enable visually impaired teens and adults to share certain social activities with their sighted or visually impaired peers.
- Develop strategies and increase their cultural knowledge.
- Develop their manual skills.
- Develop a healthy sense of competition.
- Encourage youths to read and understand the rules of games, whether simple or complex.
- Allow youths to develop and improve their mental representation of travelling along a game board.
- Empower players with regards to board games: storage, verification of game pieces, etc.
Download the list of available games by clicking on this link. This list is only in French.
For more information about the games, as well as for orders, please contact:
Lise Simard by phone at 450-465-8567 or by email at lisesimard26@videotron.ca.
Micheline Théberge by phone at 450-651-8127 or by email at m.theberge@videotron.ca.
Les Tactilivres
The Foundation is pleased to be associated with a project that encourages the stimulation of tactile reading for blind children, from newborns up to age five.
The habit of touching tactile books from an early age is certainly an important factor in the development of touch, and equally so for language development and cognitive skills. It is why we want to offer children original books as well as adaptations of already popular books.
This project is made possible through the collaboration of Louise Comtois, Lise Simard, and Joanne Thibodeau, and the financial participation of the Institut Nazareth et Louis Braille.
For more information on the different packages available, and to place an order, contact Louise Comtois by phone at 450-538-0186.
Large-Numbers Calendar
The Quebec Foundation for the Blind is proud to have created a calendar with large numbers for people with vision problems. Big print and high contrast facilitate reading for the elderly or semi-blind. Contact information for various organizations in the community of visual impairment is also included.
Our large-numbers calendar is only offered electronically and provides many advantages:
- Our calendar is available everywhere and for free.
- It is possible to download and print it in the desired size from home or at a print shop or library. It is also possible to only print a single month.
- You can print it as many times as desired. You might, for example, use one at work, one in the kitchen, and one close to your computer desk.
- The numbers are sized at 72-point type.
Happy using!
We hope you fill your calendar with many happy moments.