Through the workshop and with the collaboration of the Tiflodidattica Consulting Center of Cagliari we will try to answer the questions that often arise spontaneously in the collective imagination: Can those who cannot see attend scientific high school? What tools do they use to solve an equation? How can they study chemistry? Physics? And Geometry?
\nIt will be an opportunity to briefly illustrate the new EDICO software, the first totally free and inclusive system that revolutionizes the learning and study of scientific subjects for the blind.
\nEDICO is a scientific editor for Windows, developed by UCM (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and ONCE (National Organization of the Blind of Spain) which allows students with visual disabilities to interact with teachers and classmates, following the mathematics, physics or chemistry lessons in real time and in a completely usable way.
\nEDICO was brought to Italy by the National Uici which made use of the skills and resources of the I.Ri.Fo.R., Institute for Research, Training and Rehabilitation of the Union to take care of the localization phase , testing, training and distribution.
\nThe EDICO software, in fact, has been freely available since 7 April 2022 for all Italian students and schools of all levels, offering a fundamental contribution to overcoming the instrumental and educational barriers that still today penalize blind people who choose training courses of a scientific nature.
\nThe Cavazza Institute of Bologna, the Institute for the Blind in Milan and the national network of Typhlodidactic Consultancy Centers also offered their contributions to the various and complex phases of the work.<\/p>\n