For 33-year-old Apoorv Kulkarni, a person with low vision, it is cleaning utensils, getting broken gadgets fixed and not being able to choose between white and brown bread in a market aisle that’s taking a toll. “I have designed my life for an independent existence. But it’s little things that add up and stress me out.
The CBSE datesheets for the CBSE Class 12 board exam and CBSE Class 10 board exam are finally out, as per tweets by HRD Minister Ramesh Nishank Pokhriyal.
CBSE students waiting for so long for the new exam dates for CBSE board exams can finally heave a sigh of relief and resume preparation without any anxiety about uncertainty regarding CBSE board exams 2020.
CBSE Board Class 10, Class 12 Remaining Exam Date Sheet 2020 HIGHLIGHTS: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has announced the revised date sheet for the pending exams for classes 10 and 12. Board had earlier announced that the exams will be conducted from July 1 to 15. Today the detailed schedule has been released.
The Delhi University (DU) administration has decided to switch to the open book online examination mode from July 1 for final year students in case the Covid-19 pandemic doesn’t allow the university to hold exams via the conventional pen-and-paper mode by then.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Unlike cricket, there is no diplomatic issues when it comes to blindness. The 60-day online training programme in assistive technologies for education launched by a city-based NGO, Chakshumathi, has students from Pakistan, Europe, Africa, Caribbean islands along with those from India.
For registration, contact: 7994485311, 6238475543.
The coronavirus can survive on surfaces for a long time, and for those who rely on touch, it has made life more difficult.
The visually impaired understand the world through touch and feel. Without this, everything from shopping for groceries to using the elevator becomes impossible,” says K N Sudeendra Kumar, programme officer with a community-based rehabilitation forum...
Jammu: The School Education Department in Jammu and Kashmir is going to distribute 42 laptops among children who are visually impaired to provide inclusive educational support through technological interventions.
The laptops will be connected to braille tactile terminals lying in the resource rooms, School Education Principal Secretary Asgar Samoon said.
This will help the visually-impaired children to read and explore more learning resources from the internet,” he said.
All sessions are in English and the minimum requirement to join the course is basic knowledge of computer and mobile phones.
KOCHI: You have seen him; the blind lottery seller, walking ever so gently by the side of the bustling street. You might have even bought a lottery from him regardless of whether you have a penchant for trying your luck or not. That man could have been Venugopal Mani, the 32-year-old blind cricketer from Badiyadka in Kasaragod district.
During the nationwide lockdown, Eyeway helpline has been receiving numerous calls from visually impaired people across India for help with delivery of food, medicines and other essentials. Some have even asked for financial help to pay off rent and other utility bills.
We’ve been trying to meet their requests with coordinated effort from NGOs and volunteers. In response to our call for help in Wardha district of Maharashtra, a visually impaired college student, Harshad Chakradhare took on himself to find solutions.
Keli Tandi and his wife are a blind couple from Raipur. They barely had any food supplies at home when the nationwide lockdown was announced. Although, someone did provide them with a packet of rice but it wasn’t enough to meet the basic food requirement of the family. With no ration at home and two small children needing milk, they reached out to Eyeway for help in a state of desperation.
On understanding their situation, Eyeway quickly mobilized its network who ensured delivery of essential ration items to the family.
Dhirender Chauhan and his wife are a blind couple who were visiting their relatives in Jabalpur when the nationwide lockdown was announced to curb the spread of COVID-19. With restrictions on mobility and little cash in hand, the family was caught in a helpless situation. Dhirender called the Eyeway helpline seeking support with ration and some nutritional food supplies for his pregnant wife.
With the nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19, two hostels housing 40 blind boys and girls in Pune were suddenly caught unprepared. Their major source of income was an orchestra of blind children that performed round the year.
When PM Narendra Modi announced the first nationwide lockdown of 21 days, many were left trapped in places away from home.
18-year-old Amit Kumar who is visually impaired, had travelled to Delhi from his hometown in Bihar to appear for his Class 10 exams. Unfortunately, he was stuck at a hostel for blind students in the capital where he was residing temporarily.
BGFI brings to you yet another insightful series of session on Grooming Etiquettes and Hygiene. The first part of the series will focus on dressing or grooming followed by hygiene, details of the second part will be communicated post the session on grooming etiquettes.
Saksham is organizing a webinar on various accessibility features of android phones and iPhone on 13th May 2020. The 1 and a half hour webinar will hold 3 sessions each of which will be taken by Saksham's technology experts. The sessions will cover talkback control for web navigation, selection mode, labelling, cut, and copy-paste through talkback, some special features of WhatsApp and some interesting tricks and techniques of talkback/voiceover on a smartphone as well as the iPhone.
After the registration, you'll receive an email with a detailed plan of the sessions.
New Delhi, May 7 (PTI) Visually impaired Amina, who relies heavily on her sense of touch, wonders what kind of ''new life'' awaits her when the lockdown imposed in view of the coronavirus pandemic relaxes.
For Amina, it is a double whammy as not only touching any surface will put her at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus but also the new norm of social distancing would make the outside world more wary towards helping her and other blind people.
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