Visually impaired Dubai expat becomes movie star
Born in November 2002, Redha weighed only 650gm and had to be put in an incubator for the first six months.
She had little chances of survival when she was born immature.
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Children with special needs in cradles cry for educators
Hyderabad: Tens and thousands of school children identified with various kinds of disabilities are left in the lurch in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh following non-appointment of special educators for the last four years.
According to sources, there are 11,000 secondary schools for which both the States have been receiving funds under the Right to Education Act (RTE) from the Centre.
Kind-hearted couple have adopted six BLIND children from around the world - including one little girl who was left to die in a trash can
A selfless couple have adopted six blind children from around the world - including a baby girl who was dumped in a trash can.
Joe and Karen Bartling, both 60, of Oakton, Virginia, dreamed of having a large family but struggled to conceive naturally after having their biological son Joel, 30.
Following failed IVF they turned to adoption and heard about a baby that had been abandoned in South Korean orphanage through a customer at Karen's doll store.
Uttarakhand HC issues directions to state to look after disabled children
The Uttarakhand High Court on Wednesday issued a slew of directions to the state government to ensure that proper facilities are provided in schools to children with special needs.
A division bench of Justices Rajiv Sharma and Lokpal Singh passed the order after taking cognizance of a letter written by one Kamal Gupta four years ago highlighting the difficulties faced by children with special needs in pursuing education.
Making travel accessible to differently-abled
BENGALURU: In order to provide hassle-free travel to the differently-abled, a startup named, Enable Travel was launched in 2017. Based in Mumbai, it covers more than 85 destinations. In India, they have designed itineraries for places such as Delhi, Agra, Jaipur, Udaipur, Jodhpur, Bombay, Goa, Bangalore, Mysuru and Coorg. All itineraries have been specially designed keeping the disabilities in mind. On an average, they receive 12-15 enquiries every month from Karnataka.
Better tech than braille for blind now
HYDERABAD: What if someone still uses Telegram as a primary tool for communicating with people even today? Isn’t that weird and outdated in this fast-paced world? Spending a huge amount only on improving Braille catalog in public libraries, printing Braille calendars, distributing Braille books of ancient scriptures are also as weird as the usage of telegram.
A new jiant step forward
I am extremely excited and at the same time nervous writing this mail.
Almost a decade ago we took our first step o audio describing the movie Black and prepared a special DVD of the movie that many of us enjoyed. We started with the vision that one day we will reach a stage where most of the movies released in Indian theatres will provide us the option to listen to audio description through the headphone while we are sitting with our family and friends in the movie hall.
India’s first dedicated Centre for Disability Studies opens in Mizoram
In a first for India, Mizoram chief minister Lal Thanhawla last week inaugurated the Centre for Disability Studies at the Mizoram University in Aizawl. The Centre has been set up by the Department of Person with Disabilities, under the aegis of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment.
EC TO ESTABLISH AUXILIARY POLLING STATIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
The Chief Election Commissioner OP Rawat on Wednesday announced that the Commission has decided to establish auxiliary polling stations for the people with disabilities (PwDs) during elections. The CEC said that disability coordinators would be appointed at the levels of assembly constituencies, districts and States.
Make coach for disabled safer: State to Railways
BENGALURU:The Department for Empowerment of Differently-abled and Senior Citizens has decided to write to the Railway Board objecting to the disabled coach being placed at the end of the trains. This comes close on the heels of two knife-yielding men robbing a differently-abled woman passenger in the differently-abled coach on Bengaluru-Mangaluru-Kannur train on June 28.
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