Prof. Boguslaw ‘Bob’ Marek. Ph.D. OBE is a Director of Services for Students with Special Needs at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland and founder of HUNGRY FINGERS – a small organization developing educational resources for children with special needs. For the past twenty years, with his background in English and British qualifications in the area of education of children with special needs, Bob has focused on teaching English as a foreign language to students with a visual impairment and on introducing tactile graphics to totally blind learners. Having direct contact with children with a visual impairment as a part time teacher at the Laski School in Poland Bob has developed and tested a wide range of resources which are now used in several countries to help totally blind children understand difficult concepts based on visual experience and spatial relations. His workshops in the UK, Ireland, Iceland, The Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia, UAE, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Samoa, Singapore, Palau, Japan and in Australia received very positive feedback from parents and teachers of children and students with a visual impairment. For his “English for the Blind” programme, Bob received The Order of the British Empire from HM Queen Elizabeth II.
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Upcoming Events
The Hungry Fingers way to tactile graphics: Simple tools for explaining complex problems
- May 4, 2018
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
This workshop will explore notoriously difficult problem of introducing tactile graphics to young congenitally blind learners.
- May 4, 2018
Teacher Aide: Supporting students who are deaf or hard of hearing in your school
- Day 1 of 2
May 17, 2018 - June 21, 2018
9:00 am - 6:00 pm
This course is intended to provide participants with the competencies required to assist in supporting students who are deaf or hard of hearing in their learning environment.
- Day 1 of 2
Teacher Aide: Supporting students who are blind or have low vision in your school
- Day 1 of 2
May 18, 2018
9:00 am - 3:30 pm
The course is intended to provide participants with the skills and competencies required to assist them in supporting students who are blind or have low vision in thier school.
- Day 1 of 2
A11yPub - inclusive digital publishing symposium
- A11ypub
July 5, 2018
9:30 am - 4:00 pm
Ensuring everyone can actively engage and enjoy digital publishing content (ePUB, audiobooks and book apps) is the right decision from an ethical, legal and business perspective.
- A11ypub
Imaginative play – a Platform for Learning in Young Children with Hearing Loss
- July 17, 2018 - July 18, 2018
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Do you work with young children with hearing loss and their families? Do you support young children with hearing loss in a childcare. Preschool or kindergarten? Are you interested to know what you can do to include more purposeful play as a basis for learning?
- July 17, 2018 - July 18, 2018