Swati*, a 15-year-old visually challenged girl, runs her fingers over the shuffled dots of a Braille book, attempting to understand a sequence of dots. Every time she touches it, she tries to relate it with pictures or events she has heard about. "I was never taught Braille. I have been tutored only through audio lessons," said Swati, who touched a Braille book for the first time.

CHENNAI: Kathirvel Vijayabalan, a topper from the Government Higher Secondary School for the Blind in Poonamallee, always wanted to become a district Collector.

AJMER: Sunday saw a unique event for visually impaired individuals to showcase their poetry skills in Ajmer.

Shikha Dubey, a visually impaired girl from Dewas, Madhya Pradesh presented a poem on ‘Shinghar Ras’ (beauty essence) about the beauty of flowers that drew loud claps from the audience.
The program was organized by the literary society of India along with Paras Charitable trust in which visually impaired poets got a chance to showcase their wide range of imaginations in the form of poetry.

San Francisco, May 18

With an aim to offer students with disabilities an opportunity to learn the language of technology, Apple is bringing an accessible coding programme to schools serving the blind and deaf communities, first to the US and then to more schools around the world.

When S Bhuvaneshwari’s husband turned his back on her and their two daughters, she was shattered. She didn’t know how she would shoulder their responsibility single-handedly. She took up a job, borrowed money from her sister and did whatever she could to make ends meet and ensure that her children’s education did not suffer.