Blind school sees success.
CHANDIGARH: No less than 12 students of the Sector-26 Institute for Blind have done well in their CBSE Class-XII examinations. The school offers only humanities stream and had nine boys and 3 girls as candidates.
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9th Hydrabad Fide Rating Chess Tournament for Visually Challenged, 2019
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.
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Lego Is Making Braille Bricks. They May Give Blind Literacy a Needed Lift
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.
A clarity on vision
An eye impairment can be especially traumatising for children and their parents but new technology comes to the rescue. By Team Viva
Braille magazines for the visually-challenged in Madurai
The Indian Association for the Blind in Madurai comes out with two monthly magazines in Braille for the visually challenged that carry stories contributed by the people from the community
Online series Safe Cooking offers lessons specially for visually impaired people
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
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
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
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.
CBSE to allow visual aids for disabled kids from 2020
The CBSE students, from 2020, will be allowed to use magnifying glasses and portable video magnifiers during the Class X final examination.
CBSE, notifying the exemption said, “Alternative-type questions will be provided in lieu of questions having visual inputs for visually impaired candidates in social science. With effect from 2020, in lieu of large-font question papers, candidates will be allowed to use magnifying glasses/ portable video magnifiers.”
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