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Abil Nova will speak on October 22, 2025, from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the Riva del Garda Sports Palace during the Didacta Italy fair to present our Flex Picture Ebook project.

 

During one of its presentations, the JKU laboratory showcased the Flex Picture Ebook project at the AATE 2025 event at European University Cyprus in Cyprus.
This year’s theme was “Technology for Inclusion and Participation for All: Recent Achievements and Future Directions.”

Roberta Zumiani (Abilnova), Enrica Polato (Robert Hollman Foundation) and Francesco Zambotti will be leading a workshop at the International Conference on the Quality of School and Social Integration, on November 14, 2025, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Rimini, Italy.
Their talk will focus on accessible books: strategies for inclusive education. (WS10)
They will address the main challenges to textbook accessibility and present practical strategies for overcoming them, drawing in particular on the results of the Flex Picture Ebook project.

Plus d’informations sur le site internet.

From 2pm to 5pm, the publishing house Les Doigts Qui Rêvent, the IJA (Institut des Jeunes Aveugles) foundation and the Ludosens association (an association that supports people with invisible disabilities: ASD, ADHD, DYS, etc.) will present the Flex Picture Ebook project with demonstrations of how it works.

This conference will take place in Toulouse, at the Médiathèque José Cabanis (Small Auditorium – 3rd floor), 1, Allée Jacques Chaban-Delmas, and will be open to parents, teachers, educators, librarians, facilitators and support staff.

Registration is free on the Hello Asso website: here. The number of places is limited to 40.

LASUC is organising a conference on digital book innovation and the FlexPicture Ebook project. The conference will be held at the Lithuanian Education Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Ateities St. 44, Vilnius.

Here is the day’s programme:

9AM – 10AM.	To register. Café
10.00AM – 10.15AM.	Welcome speech (being coordinated)
10.15AM – 10.45AM.	Technology for all: tools for deaf and hard-of-hearing students. Head of the Ieva Stelmokienė Sign Language Interpreting and Teaching Department, Lithuanian Centre for Education of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
10.45AM – 11.15AM.	Adaptation of texts and tasks for students with learning difficulties. Special teaching tools. Asta Kuneikienė, special educator, Kira Solovjovienė, psychologist, Lithuanian Education Centre for Inclusion.
11.15AM – 11.45AM.	When reading becomes exclusion: EPUB as a solution in the context of dyslexia. Jurgita Pocienė, special educator and speech therapist, founder of the 'DYSLEXIA Centre&apos ;
11.45AM – 12.45PM.	Lunch
12.45PM – 1.15PM.	A learning tool for all: how EPUB contributes to inclusion in education. Julija Skerniškytė, Inclusive Publishing Specialist, Lithuanian Audiosensory Library
1.15PM – 1.45PM.	Technical tools and formats improving reading accessibility for visually impaired people. Specialist in tiflotheory, doctoral student in the field of education at the Šiauliai Academy of Vilnius Ugnėė University, Audiosensory Library of Lithuania.
13.45 – 14.15.	When we see differently: Methods and tools to help children read and understand texts. Audra Petronaitytė, specialist in vision disorders, Panevėžys Vision Centre 'Linelis&apos ;
2.15PM – 2.45PM.	Create an inclusive reading experience with 'Flex Picture Ebook;. EPUB3 format capabilities. Special educator Indrėė, Lithuanian Education Centre for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
2.45PM – 3.00PM	Summary of the conference

 

Some photos from the conference:

From left to right: Nerija Moskalionienė, Director; Jonas Petkevičius, Deputy Minister of Education; Ieva Stelmokienė from the Lithuanian Education Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired (LASUC)

From left to right: Senior specialist in Tiphlology, Ugnė Žilytė from the Lithuanian Audio-Sensory Library; Indrė Žvirblė, a Special Educator at the LASUC; Audra Petronaitytė from the Panevėžys Vision Centre ‘Linelis’

The Johannes Kepler University Linz (JKU) will present the tools to publishers and answer participants’ questions on Wednesday 25 June 2025 from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. via videoconference. The presentation will be in English, but will be simultaneously translated into French and Italian.

Click on the link to register.

Priscilla Laulan from Ludosens will be presenting a “Step-by-step guide to helping a child with an autism spectrum disorder understand a text” for parents and professionals (teachers, librarians, publishers, etc.) from 2 pm to 3:30 pm.

Based on the text Émile veut une chauve-souris (Emile wants a bat), Priscilla Laulan will present 3 methods for accompanying adults or publishers, and answer your questions. The presentation will be given in French.

The webinar was recorded in French and the replay is available on our YouTube channel Flex Picture Ebook.

Registration link