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Teaching Knitting to People with Visual Impairments: Inclusive Techniques with Jocelyne Denault

Bilingual Friday afternoon
$133.22
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Ticket Type

Language: Bilingual

Difficulty: Intermediate

Category: Knitting

This workshop explores the challenges commonly faced when teaching knitting to individuals with visual impairments. Jocelyne Denault will share techniques she has developed and refined through her experience, demonstrate adapted tools and teaching methods, and highlight the materials that are best suited for inclusive learning.

Who is this workshop for?
This session is open to individuals with visual impairments as well as anyone, regardless of physical ability, interested in learning how to create more inclusive knitting spaces.

What you leave with: Course outline. Example of standard pattern and adapted pattern. Slipper template (medium women's size and baby booties). One adapted needle gauge. One adapted row counter bracelet.

- 04:30 pm
Workshops Hallway: room 2
Prerequisites
  • Know how to knit and be familiar with the basic stitches including slip knot and long tail cast-on, basic tools needles, markers, row counters, needle threaders etc., various types of yarn and their characteristics.
  • Know how to read patterns.
  • This session is open to individuals with visual impairments as well as anyone, regardless of physical ability.
What is provided (for the duration of the workshop)
  • Complete tool kits (needle gauge and crochet hook gauge, row counters in necklace and bracelet format)
  • needle threaders for sewing needles
  • adapted interchangeable needle set (Addi Click)
  • slipper and baby bootie templates (in various sizes).
What to bring
  • Materials for taking notes
  • Yarn and knitting needles that you believe could be usable by a person with visual impairments. (Use your best judgment. Every idea will contribute to the learning process!)

TEACHER

Jocelyne Denault

A retired CEGEP teacher, I have been teaching knitting to people with visual impairments for the past five years.

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