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National Job fair for Divyangjan on 2-3 December

DivyaKaushal - National Job fair for Divyangjan on 2-3 December

National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) in association with Inclusive Divyangjan Entrepreneur Association (IDEA) is organising DivyaKaushal- National Job Fair & Ability Expo exclusively for Person with Disability (PwD)/ Divyangjan.
Date : 2nd and 3rd December 2019
Venue : Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Science, Sector 2 Dwarka, Delhi
Qualification : 10th, 12th, ITI, NSQF Certifications, Diploma/Degree

Cochin University of Science and Technology

Cochin University of Science and Technology
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Website: www.cusat.ac.in

Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit: http://faculty.cusat.ac.in/new/notifications/378_notification.pdf

Apply Online on or before 2nd December 2019
Applications in the prescribed format are invited from qualified candidates for appointment to the following posts of Associate Professor.

Info Tech classes

After successful completion of the first batch of 6-month courses by Infotech for the blind, we are glad to announce our second batch of various courses for visually impaired persons. If you want to improve yourself in different areas and want to enhance your knowledge through these courses from talented faculties, grab this opportunity by simply filling the admission form.
Here is the list of different courses:

1. Basic computer training with screen readers

2. Talkback settings training

3. Advanced computer programme training

Symphony in Leadership- Integration of Visual and Performing Arts in Education.

It was wonderful interacting with you and connecting on the theme. It was also very inspiring to hear about your involvement and passion at grass root level. As a Social Enterpreneur, Inspirational Speaker and a Communicator, i am sure you have inspired millions and made a difference to lives of many people. Well, i am one of the millions !

Braille board, handrails to help diff-abled in Kovai stn

Coimbatore: The Coimbatore railway station has accquired Braille board indicators facility reported as ‘first of its kind’ in the Salem railway division.

Divisional Railway Manager U. Subba Rao, Salem Division told DC, Southern Railway had installed Braille board indicators facility for the visually-impaired passengers.

NFB: Striving to reach and serve the visually challenged

Blindness combined with poverty limits their access to education, employment, health services, which finally leads to their socio-economic exclusion.

Bengaluru: India is home to world’s largest visually impaired population with over 50 lakh people, according to the 2011 census and 2,50,000 blind persons in Karnataka. Most of the visually impaired people belong to the underprivileged sections of society. Blindness combined with poverty limits their access to education, employment, health services, which finally leads to their socio-economic exclusion.

Mattel releases first deck of Uno cards in Braille

GOODIN, Idaho — Middle schoolers at the Idaho School for the Deaf and the Blind are getting their hands on the first official braille Uno deck.

"Games don't usually have braille on them unless you put it on, so I think putting braille on things like card games and Legos and stuff — that's a really good thing to do," seventh-grader Kathryn Reese said.

Some of played the game before, but with this deck, they didn't have to hand-braille the cards themselves.

Computer Training For Visually Impaired

Dear All,

A Warm Greetings from RCGF-Surya!

Computer Training For Visually Impaired

Foundation Course in Computers and Employability
Duration: 6 Months

The new batch for Foundation Course in Computers and Employability for
the visually impaired will commence on November third Week, 2019.

Introduction to RCG Foundation:

International Early Intervention Conference

Early Bird Registration now open

Amar Seva Sangam (ASSA) is hosting an International Early Intervention (EI) conference in Chennai, India on Feb 14 – 15, 2020, which promises to be an exciting and ground breaking occasion.

The theme of the conference is *Early Intervention - Maximizing the Potential of Children with Special Needs Towards Inclusion.

RTA unveils nol card for the blind at expo

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) exhibited a number of solutions at AccessAbilities Expo in Dubai, including a ‘nol’ public transport card modelled after Braille, whereby visually challenged individuals can differentiate it from other cards

Android Workshop for Visually Impaired people

National Association for the Blind (NAB ) Helpline is Organizing Android Workshop for Visually Impaired people.
In this workshop we are going to enhance your Skills with android mobile app such a social media apps,like

- What's app, and Facebook

- Payment apps like Google pay, and Paytm

- Order on booking apps like Ola and Zomato

Apart from that you will get to know how important smart phone is
for visually impaired.

Candidates will get lunch in NAB Campus.

Interested candidates can register on: 9212319672, 8826261166

Maharashtra Gramin Dak Sevak recruitment (Only for Low Vision candidates )

Maharashtra Postal Circle has released the official advertisement for the post of Branch Post Master, Assistant Branch Post Master and Gramin Dak Sevak for various post offices of Maharashtra.

Total no. Of vacancy - 31 (All over Maharashtra)

Essential-

Candidate should have passed 10th Std. With Marathi, Hindi, English as main subject .

Basic knowledge of operating computer skills.

Candidate should be fluent in Marathi language.

Candidate should have Cycling Knowledge-Cycling is a pre-requisite condition for all GDS posts

This startup creates customised audio content through voice cloning

Founded in 2018, startup Deepsync Technologies uses AI to learn how you speak and saves hours of recordings, which then helps it to create audio content.

The time taken to produce an audiobook is a minimum of a month. In some cases, this can stretch up to two months. With the digital publishing and ebooks segment holding huge potential looking to the future, consider this – a technology that can reduce the time taken for an audiobook by 90 percent?

New Batches for upcoming insurance, SSC and other govt. exams

Dear aspirants,

Divya Pratibha Mahotsav

Deepsthambh Foundation's Manobal Project is India's first ever free of cost
residential training center for the specially-abled and orphan student in
competitive examinations and other higher studies brings to you a unique
cultural event "Divya Pratibha Mahotsav"

This tactile display lets visually impaired users feel on-screen 3D shapes

Using a computer and modern software can be a chore to begin with for the visually impaired, but fundamentally visual tasks like 3D design are even harder. This Stanford team is working on a way to display 3D information, like in a CAD or modeling program, using a “2.5D” display made up of pins that can be raised or lowered as sort of tactile pixels. Taxels!

Self-Defence Training

NAB Delhi with America India Foundation is organizing Self-defence training for visually impaired girls.It is very important for visually impaired girls to become confident and learn self-defence techniques. This will make them more comfortable in travelling and at educational institutions or workplace. The techniques are simple to learn, no knowledge of martial arts is required. Any visually impaired girl in the age group of 18 to 35 years is welcome.

Advanced Excel Workshop

Dear Participant,

Workshop Training on the theme “Advanced Excel with JAWS” by XRCVC

There are huge number of visually challenged persons working in the financial sector handling various
tasks from credit monitoring to HR and many such.

We, at XRCVC have designed an exclusive workshop theme “Advanced Excel Workshop with JAWS” for
skill development on Excel office application specific to commercial jobs for the visually challenged
finance associated students, interns & employee.

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