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9th Hydrabad Fide Rating Chess Tournament for Visually Challenged, 2019

Thu, 05/02/2019 - 11:54 -- geeta.nair

Organised by Devnar foundation under the aegis of All India Chess Federation.

Free Accommodation will be made available from 30th April Evening to 6th May Morning 2019.

All Players must mandotory to register on www.aicfb.in and pay Rs. 50/- and also pay AICF annual registration fee (aicf.in) of Rs. 250/- Before 15th April, 2019.

Please note that All participants must register their entries on or before 15th April, 2019.

Confirm entry by calling us.

 

Lego Is Making Braille Bricks. They May Give Blind Literacy a Needed Lift

Wed, 05/01/2019 - 10:29 -- geeta.nair

Advocates say the product could transform reading for blind and visually impaired children, making the experience of learning Braille more inclusive and helping to combat what has been called a Braille literacy crisis.

A new effort is underway to help blind and visually impaired children more naturally learn to read Braille, a system based on different configurations of six small, raised dots that blind people read with their fingertips. And it is coming in the form of a favorite childhood toy: Lego bricks.

Online series Safe Cooking offers lessons specially for visually impaired people

Fri, 04/26/2019 - 11:03 -- geeta.nair

Are you a visually impaired person who wants to pick up some basic tips in cooking? Well, help is online in the form of a series called Safe Cookingon YouTube.

The brainchild of Sushmeetha Bubna, founder of Voice Vision, a well-known NGO for blind people, the series aims to empower people with visual impairments. Bubna is also the series host. The first episode is already out and focuses on the theoretical aspects of cooking.
 

Gurugram students design walking stick & self help shoes for visually impaired people

Thu, 04/25/2019 - 14:19 -- geeta.nair

In our weekly feature #TechThursdays we turn the spotlight on a school that
is going against the norm of marks and grades and encouraging its students
to develop lateral thinking skills.

What happens when you encourage students to come up with solutions to real
world problems and develop working prototypes of solutions, they have
proposed using latest technologies? You get an automated walking stick, 3D
printed braille cards, and "help me" shoes - all aimed at enabling visually
impaired people perform daily tasks with ease.

Education should not be self centred: Acharya

Thu, 04/25/2019 - 10:38 -- geeta.nair

Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya and his wife with the students from the Visually Impaired School, Dimapur during the outreach programme held at Raj Bhavan on April 24. (DIPR Photo)

Kohima, April 24 (MExN): An outreach programme was held at the Raj Bhavan, Kohima for students from Visually Impaired School, Nutun Basti, Dimapur and Government Middle School, Officers’ Hill, Kohima on April 24.

Visually impaired make independent choice

Thu, 04/25/2019 - 10:24 -- geeta.nair

PANAJI: Sumera Khan, 19, didn’t think her first voting  experience would be so pleasant. The visually impaired  student from Curtorim constituency had seen many of her kind  go up to the polling booth but were forced to depend on someone else to execute the task for them. Making an independent  choice was simply not possible, until Tuesday. 

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