After the Supreme Court allowed medical aspirants suffering from low vision to get admission, the Delhi High Court has cleared the cases of admission of candidates with hearing impairments, specific learning disabilities and blood disorder-related disabilities into MBBS this year. All of these were cancelled earlier on the basis of Medical Council of India (MCI) guidelines and faulty medical boards.
A panel has suggested including Indian Sign Language as a subject, offering Braille as a language option and providing various difficulty levels of core subjects for students with special needs as part of curriculum and examination reforms.
These are among key recommendations made by a group of representatives from various examination boards, advocates, parents, disabled students, experts in the field who carried out extensive brainstorming in Delhi.
JAGATSINGHPUR: Hundreds of persons with disabilities (PwDs) are deprived of benefits of Government schemes in the district as they do not possess identify certificates. Due to vacancy of specialists in the District Disability Board which issues certificates, PwDs are being forced to visit SCB Medical College and Hospital for the purpose. The board comprising specialists like mental, orthopaedics, ENT, eye, medicine and neurology was formed to conduct tests for issuing certificates to visually-impaired persons or those having mental problems, cerebral palsy or autism.
ECB have today announced five Warwickshire cricketers in a 16-man Visually Impaired (VI) squad for their upcoming tour of India.
Warwickshire's Justin Hollingsworth, Luke Sugg, Nathan Foy, Mo Khatri and Mark Turnham are part of the squad that will take on World Champions India in three IT20s before competing in a Tri-Series against India and Sri Lanka.
In a significant order, the Supreme Court has allowed a person suffering from ‘low vision’, a disability in which the eyesight cannot be corrected or improved, to pursue the MBBS course and treat patients. The top court allowed a student to pursue MBBS on the ground that he has cleared the 2018 National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET-UG) in the category of Persons with Disability. A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and Indira Banerjee held that the petitioner “cannot be denied admission to the MBBS course if he qualifies as per his merit in the category of Persons with Disability.
Shruti Kalra can never watch a film at the cinema without having to nudge the person next to her. “Every time there’s a silent scene, I need to ask them what’s going on,” says Kalra, a Delhi-based professor, who is blind. She only dares going to see a film with someone she knows won’t mind the disturbances.
The campus of the Helen Keller Memorial Association For The Blind is abuzz. The carpets on the floor and the shamiana lend it a festive mood. Students dressed in their best walk around and there is a barely contained excitement in the air. The reason for this? An audiobooks and Braille library that has just recently been launched.
Amid the controversy surrounding Dehradun-based National Institute of Visually Handicapped (NIVH), students who are protesting the alleged sexual harassment of a girl student by a music teacher, said on Wednesday that they will continue their protest till the director is terminated and a deadline is set to meet their demands.
The students have been protesting since August 15 against the alleged molestation and have also put forth a list of demands. The accused teacher, Suchit Narang, was booked by Rajpur police on Saturday but has not been arrested.
Cooking may seem rather intimidating for a person who is blind or visually impaired. But with proper training and care, it is not impossible.
Are you a blind or visually impaired person looking to learn basic cooking skills? Well, sign up for Shirin Kheriwala’s weekly classes!
Starting 25 August 2018, Shirin will hold classes every Saturday at the V M School for the Blindat Tardeo, Mumbai.
Anand Mahindra-backed start-up Thinkerbell Labs, which builds literacy devices for the visually impaired, is on a mission to solve the problem of low literacy and employability among visually impaired people. This Bengaluru-based start-up has built the first learning ecosystem for the visually impaired which consists of Annie—a smart device for self-learning Braille, software for monitoring user progress and interactive content.
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