CNIB Children's Program, 3D Printer
Posted by Vira Hughes
on May 18, 2016
On Tuesday we received a demonstration and a big thank you from Laura Larsan (pictured), of the CNIB Children's Program Development, for our donation towards the purchase of a 3D printer.
She explained some of the many ways this printer can be used in their classroom environment to help vision impaired children to understand the world around them. It allows them to print objects that they can touch and feel, so that they have a better understanding of shapes and relative sizes of the things around them, when they are spoken about.
It can also be used by the Mobility program to print 3D maps of the an area to help them understand what their neighbourhood looks like. They do not use it to print objects for which good models are readily available.
It can be used to explain concepts in science, math and art. They also hope to be able to use it to print custom fitted glasses for children who have difficulty with normal glasses, and are also looking forward to being able to use it for other things that they have not even thought of yet.
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