Teaching and Learning Materials
In addition to school textbook content, we provide supplementary teaching and learning materials, including A-level revision guides, exam papers, tactile diagrams, 3D prints, maps and plans. We also offer loan equipment for blind and visually impaired students to use in their daily school life.
About the schoolbooksOverview of other products
Books for reading on a Braille display
Literature that is not classified as a school textbook is adapted by us for reading on a Braille display or printed at our Braille Centre. Books are only converted in consultation with the Teaching Materials Centre.
Literaturlist Download
Standardised School-Leaving and Diploma Examination (SRDP – Matura)
In collaboration with the Ministry of Education, guidelines have been developed to enable people with blindness to sit the Standardised School-Leaving and Diploma Examination (Matura). The SRDPs from recent years are available in adapted form at www.matura.gv.at to aid preparation.
Teaching and learning materials
Teaching and learning materials that are not included in school textbooks are produced by our department and made available via https://wiki.bbi.at. Educators can access this site via the secretariat of the Teaching Materials Centre. Available resources include prepared worksheets, learning materials on how to use specific programmes with screen readers and Braille displays, as well as tactile diagrams.
Tactile images
Adapting images, diagrams and graphics from mathematics, physics or biology requires a great deal of experience. We pass this expertise on to the BookAccess association so that graphics from school textbooks can be adapted into tactile prints. We create graphics that do not appear in school textbooks but are nonetheless important for teaching.
3D printing and laser cutting.
The Department for Inclusion and Teaching Materials works closely with our pupils and colleagues to produce tactile and high-contrast teaching materials that can be used by both learners who are blind and those with residual vision. These teaching materials, produced in-house, can be purchased at cost price from the Braille Centre’s sales office.
Maps and plans
In collaboration with Dr Bernhard Engelbrecht from Geosolution – and with the support of the Braille Centre – maps from the Austria Atlas, plans of several districts of Vienna, and building and overview plans are produced. The existing maps from the Austria Atlas can be ordered via the schoolbook campaign at the Teaching Materials Centre. Further information is available at the Braille Centre. European and world atlases are purchased from dzb-lesen and can also be ordered from BookAccess via the schoolbook scheme.
Equipment hire for pupils in inclusive education
Application
Please email the completed application form to the Department for Inclusion & Teaching Materials: lmz@bbi.at, enclosing a certificate of school attendance and an ophthalmologist’s report.
Application for Equipment DownloadRequirements & Notes
- This applies to federal schools (AHS, BMHS, HTL, etc.) and private schools with public status.
- For provincial schools (VS, ASO, MS, vocational schools), the provincial offices are responsible.
- This equipment may include Braille displays, document cameras, special drawing boards, specialist software, etc.
- The provincial offices of the Federal Social Welfare Office are responsible for vocational equipment; for other purposes, the provincial authorities are responsible.
Contact
Please get in touch if you have any questions!
