(+)plural Makes Children Books For Blind And Visually Impaired Children Affordable

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plural makes Children Books for Blind and Visually Impaired Children AffordableBlind and visually impaired children learn Braille writing for blind only in school so we had to re-think children books for blind and visually impaired Christina Oskui Co-Founder PlusPlural nbsp Media PartnershipThis interview is in media partnership with the CONTENTshif accelerator program https www contentshift de en accelerator programme for-startups which we follow since its inception CONTENTshift is the accelerator program of the German Book Publishers and Printers Association Below you will find more interviews from past batches We used to record the interviews directly at Frankfurt Book Fair but since it is canceled this year due to Corona we resorted to remote only interviews At the time of the recording we did not know who won the final award The winner of this year s batch is SciFlow https www contentshift de en contentshift news congratulations-to-sciflow We will publish the exclusive interview with them as the last of our series this year nbsp Three things remain with us from paradise stars flowers and children Dante Alighieri nbsp The FounderThis time we speak to the co-founder of plural spoken plus plural http www plusplural de Christina Oskui https www linkedin com in christina-oskui-825b8615a https www contentshift de en accelerator participants-2020 christina-oskui Christina wrote her first children s book about an hedgehog who lost his spikes finance with a crowdfunding campaign on StartNext https www startnext com en kinderbuch-igel During the writing she also designed plush figures to go along with the book owl rabbit duck but she could not find any publisher who wanted to publish the books together with the stuffed animals During this time she also realized that books for blind and visually impaired children are extremely expensive due to the high amount of manual labor going into each book Also books catering to sighted and blind children at the same time are not available So she aims with her social startup plural and modern production techniques to change that and make affordable books for all children There have been no books that blind and non-blind people can read at the same time Christina Oskui Co-Founder PlusPlural nbsp Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany Try our partner affiliate Penta nbsp http bit ly 3bdHX3d Looking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here nbsp http bit ly 2w01Zye nbsp A child can teach an adult three things to be happy for no reason to always be busy with something and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires Paulo Coelho nbsp The StartupBlind children learn Braille writing only in school so many children have a very small choice of books they can enjoy The high price comes from a large amount of manual labor going into these books gluing stitching stapling of different textures textiles and pieces to the book nbsp A friend of hers has a blind child who only likes part of one of its books plural http www plusplural de combines 3d printing modern manufacturing and picture books to make affordable picture books for blind and sighted children The books include stuffed animals as well as 3d printed parts plural is a social enterprise nbsp Venture Capital Funding plural is at a very early stage but they are open to talk to external investors They are also looking for partners for sale and distribution for their books nbsp My first book was about a hedgehog who lost is spikes and I designed a stuffed animal which went along with the story Christina Oskui Co-Founder PlusPlural nbsp Further Readings Additional RessourcesBraille https www merriam-webster com dictionary braille Zentralbibliothek f r Blinde https en wikipedia org wiki German Central Library for the Blind Startnext https www startnext com en kinderbuch-igel Diabetis https en wikipedia org wiki Diabetes Alzheimer Disease https en wikipedia org wiki Alzheimer 27s disease Alzheimer https en wikipedia org wiki Alois AlzheimerAlzheimer in Frankfurt His first patient was a German Lady named Auguste Dter https en wikipedia org wiki Auguste DeterChristina s first book https www abebooks com 9783945483008 Igel-Stacheln-verloren-hat-394548300X plp nbsp FeedbackReach out to us here is our audience survey to give us feedback suggest topics interview partners or just to say Hallo https forms gle mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA nbsp The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by J rn Joe Menninger startup scout founder and host of Startuprad io Reach out to him LinkedIn Twitter Email Folge direkt herunterladenClick here to visit this podcast episode