Konichiwa! Long time no see, reader-sans! Sorry for the long hiatus. I've been almost literally drowning in stuff to do lately, between normal high school stuff and college visits and applications and whatnot, not to mention that we've had a few familial surprises along the way as well (>_<). Gomenasai! *bows* Anyhow, I believe I owe you all an explanation of my project in a little bit more depth than what I gave you over a month ago, so here it is.
Essentially what I'm planning to do is make a set of three textured murals to hang on the wall of the playroom at the AIDB Regional Center. To construct these murals, I intend to collect materials of various different textures and combine them to form images which I will attach to piece of plywood or particle board. The images that I'm currently thinking about using are Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Yurtle the Turtle (haha!), and the Very Hungry Caterpillar. These are stories that my brothers and I grew up reading, and I figure that they will probably be relatively recognizable. Plus, I have to incorporate a turtle in there somehow. I am Turtle-chan after all! In case the characters aren't as recognizable as I had hoped, I'm also going to be donating a Brailed copy of each book to the Regional Center as well.
The intent of this project is to encourage blind and visually impaired children to learn at an early age that it is a good thing to reach out and explore their surroundings. Many blind and visually impaired adults are very dependent on others to help live their lives for them and it is more beneficial to be independent. Also, learning to discern different textures will aid the children in learning some basics for pre-Braille and that will facilitate learning Braille which will, in the long run, make them more independent and more marketable for jobs.
Now, I obviously haven't really had the time to really get anything going on the project yet, but I do intend to really begin work during the winter break from school. I'll probably be fairly active on the blog while I'm working on it, so you reader-sans should know what's going on every step of the way!
Part of what I have to do is create either a second blog or a website about the problem I'm focusing on, so whenever I make that I'll be sure to give you all information about it. I guess that's about all I have to say for now, so I'll take this to say thanks to anyone who has been reading this blog and to let any of my fellow Scouts out there know that I seriously do want to be able to be helpful to you, so please ask me for help if you have any kind of questions! Turtle-chan out!
Don't forget to keep rockin' and rollin'! (^-^)
- Turtle-chan
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