Ans Withagen has years of experience as a special educationalist at a school for visually impaired children at Royal Dutch Visio. Her expertise lies in the field of the tactual development of blind children. At the beginning of 2000, she and a project group started developing a Tactile Profile for children who have been blind from birth. This instrument is now used worldwide and was validated in 2005. Subsequently, she led many projects to stimulate the tactual development of blind children. In 2022, a new project was started. This time to develop a Tactual Profile for adults with acquired deafblindness.
This project will be highlighted during the conference.