After the tactile guided visit to the National Museum of Beirut, students from the Lebanese School for the Blind and Deaf started the first session of their workshop on the "Tactile books" activity with the Red Oak specialized team. Tactile books are an extraordinary educational tool, particularly useful for encouraging learning and knowledge for children with visual impairment. These books are of pedagogical value also for all children and for any other types of disabilities such as cognitive ones. They represent an important potential in the learning of spatial and topological
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After launching the second phase of "Doors. Please Touch", Red Oak is organizing its first 2023 tactile guided tours to the National Museum of Beirut for students from special schools in Lebanon.
Students with visual and auditory impairments from Dar al-Aytam Aramoun, the Lebanese school for the Blind and Deaf, and Al Hadi school got the chance to discover the beautiful archeological objects in the museum through touch while learning about the astonishing stories that behold them!
Following the visits, students received a workshop on tactile books as they will be creating in pairs one
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Red Oak is leading an educational art project in partnership with Save the Children Lebanon and UNICEF in Nabaa, aiming to support and empower children. Circus training helps children to increase their self-esteem, improves hand-eye coordination, concentration, and focus, and increases creativity. This way, children are empowered and supported in one of the most entertaining and artistic
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