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Wir verstehen uns blind
by Franz-Joseph Huainigg
Age Range: 6-8
Wir verstehen uns blind was included in the ‘Reading the Way’: Inclusive Books from Around the World Research and ‘Reading the Way 2’ projects. The book is not available in English but is referred to as We See Eye to Eye throughout the RtW Research projects. (Full report in the Education Zone of this website)
Katherina has become separated from her parents in the busy market. No one pays any attention to her except a blind man named Mathias, who also has a guide dog. At first Katherina doesn’t believe that he can help her, but Mathias and his guide dog tour the market looking for her parents, ending up at the police station where Katherina and her parents are finally reunited.
It is interesting to note the perspective of the author Franz-Joseph Huanigg, who set out to write such stories in the belief that it was important for disabled people (especially children) to learn from them and to know that they were not alone in the concerns and challenges they faced.
The other three titles featured in the research were Gemeinsam sind wir grosse Klasse (Together we’re Fantastic); Meine Füsse sind der Rollstuhl (My Wheelchair is my Legs) and Wir sprechen mit den Händen (We Talk with our Hands - featuring deafness).
OIW embraced this intention and welcomed books which helped to develop understanding and reduce isolation and exclusion. There was some strong support for this argument and agreement that stories such as this can be useful as information books, although there was a feeling that they might be too didactic and seen to convey a 'negative image of disability'. OIW concluded that there is a need for such books to be viewed within an appropriate context, and as part of a wider landscape which also features many other, natural, casual and positive depictions of disabled children.






























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































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