Surat (Gujarat) [India], Feb 28 (ANI): As the exam season is inching closer, visually impaired students of Class 10 here are indulging in board exam preparations with the help of 'PlexTalk', a flash top specially curated for this section of society.
The independence, confidence and safety of the blind and visually impaired adults and children across Fiji will now be enhanced.
This is after 200 canes were donated by Australia’s High Commissioner to Fiji John Feakes to assist the blind and visually impaired.
“It is great to hear that the Walk with Confidence campaign will not only supply those in need with important equipment,” Mr Feakes said.
“It will also connect them with disability services and advocacy.”
HYDERABAD: Colors Pinkathon Hyderabad and Bajaj Electricals ltd organised two promo events; the Cancer SheroTrek at Fakhruddingutta, next to Lanco Hills, to spread awareness of cancer. They also held a training session for the visually impaired girls from Devnar School for Blind, Begumpet who are participating in Colors Pinkathon Hyderabad over the weekend. The Cancer Shero Trek was attended by over 50 cancer survivors which included women and men across all age groups, who have battled cancer in some form and stage, friends, supporters and Pinkathon ambassadors.
The Delhi High Court has asked Senior Advocate SK Rungta to assist in a Public Interest Litigation seeking withdrawal of Rs. 50 banknote for allegedly failing to include identifiers for visually impaired persons.
Karam Prakash
Tribune News Service
Patiala, February 25
Satish would not have been able to cover the 50-km route of a car rally through the streets of Patiala and its outskirts on Sunday if Puneet, a visually-impaired man, had not shown him the way. Though Satish was behind the wheel, the route map of the rally was in Braille (a form of written language for the blind).
CUTTACK: With over 6 lakh students appearing at the High School Certificate (HSC) examination, beginning Friday, the Board of Secondary Education (BSE) has issued guidelines which are mandatory for candidates to follow.
Cataract surgeries of two visually impaired brothers Vijay (14) and Aman (10) have been successfully performed in Sewa Sadan Eye hospital here on Tuesday.
Gopal Singh of village Goriyakheda of Vidisha tehsil is a farm labourer and earns very meager. He is father of two daughters and two sons. Both his sons were ailing with cataract since birth, so they were not able to see anything.
Microsoft recently developed a haptic controller for VR with an unusual target audience in mind: the visually impaired.
Developers from Microsoft’s research lab created the “canetroller,” a peripheral device designed to work with the HTC Vive headset and tracker. The team’s goal was to create a device that would successfully enable the visually impaired to form an accurate mental map of a virtual space.
NEW DELHI: The blind population in India is estimated to rise to 15 million by 2020. Retinal diseases account for a significant share of the vision loss burden, compared to other eye-related diseases that can cause blindness.
Of the various retinal disorders, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic macular edema (DME) are two progressive diseases that cause loss of vision. AMD and DME can be effectively managed if patients are diagnosed in a timely manner.
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