The raised letters nurture dreams of touching the pages of books

Ms. Ngoc Trinh guides children on how to read and how to read on the floating books - Photo: BAO TRAN

Sharing with us about this special book series, Ms. Vo Ngoc Trinh - who has been with the school for seven years - confided: "Regarding the design process, simple images are easy, but for some complex images, I will spend more time thinking about how to convey them so that the children can understand them most easily."

Subjects with many shapes such as biology, chemistry or mathematics will take more time to complete, all shapes are cut completely by hand. In addition, to avoid wasting paper in the layout stage, teachers must carefully calculate how to make the text and the shape fit together on one page.

In addition, if the heat is not enough, the printed text will not be prominent enough or may disappear. In these cases, teachers must completely redo a new page.

To ensure the accuracy of the details in the textbooks, the Braille version is carefully checked by blind teachers to help students easily perceive and visualize exactly like regular textbooks.

Once completed, the book's blank is placed in a heat press, creating copies in large quantities.

In addition to the new curriculum textbooks, the school library has printed books and documents to assist students in their studies.

Teacher Nguyen Hoang Anh (library manager) confided that he started working at the school in 1996, and during those years he has had a deep affection for the students at this special school.

Library lessons are the time when teachers get to see students concentrating and reading attentively. This is also the joy that helps teachers at school try their best every day.

Even though the teachers had to work hard at school for three months to make books together, they did not find it tiring. Because they all knew that this was a channel to help students understand the lessons better.

Most of all, the children themselves are very excited to learn with Braille books. No matter how thick or numerous the books are, they always bring enough to school so that the teachers can guide them to "touch" the books.

Despite the support of machines, in some stages, Ms. Tran Thanh Ngan, a Literature teacher, still has to do it manually - Photo: BAO TRAN

Not only converting books and documents for internal circulation, the school also supports converting books for students studying at the university. As a former student of the school, Pham Truong Gia Han - currently a student at Ho Chi Minh City University of Education, shared: "I am very grateful to the teachers who created a set of books for visually impaired students to have the opportunity to access knowledge as well as access to letters more easily."

And it seems like it is a journey of "giving" when teachers are the ones who sow hope and light to the children, but the teachers share the opposite. Ms. Ngoc Trinh said: "When interacting with the children every day, I feel younger because of their innocence and naivety." That is what helps her appreciate what she has more.

Sometimes what is obvious to us is someone else's dream.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/nhung-con-chu-noi-nuoi-uoc-mo-cham-vao-trang-sach-20240923093509389.htm