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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... |
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01/May/2019 |
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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
What is the most traumatising time for parents of infants?... |
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30/Apr/2019 |
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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
Forty-five-... |
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30/Apr/2019 |
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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,... |
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26/Apr/2019 |
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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... |
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25/Apr/2019 |
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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... |
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25/Apr/2019 |
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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... |
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25/Apr/2019 |
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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... |
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24/Apr/2019 |
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Suriya Foundation: Helping poor, disabled kids get a new life |
Bengaluru: The Suriya Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation from Bengaluru, aims to provide quality education to visually impaired and economically weaker sections. "Along with education, we also... |
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22/Apr/2019 |
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India needs more eye doctors’ |
Conference on retinal surgery inaugurated
India is expected to have a large diabetic population of about seven crore by 2025. The progression and severity of diabetic retinopathy is directly related... |
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22/Apr/2019 |
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