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Are there any good portable MP3 players for blind and visually impaired people?

Mon, 01/08/2018 - 10:34 -- geeta.nair

Apple has discontinued the iPod Shuffle, but there are still lots of them available from other sources. Many are advertised as being brand new and still sealed in their boxes. Your simplest and least disruptive option is to buy a more recent Shuffle, or two, either “as new” or little used. Given that your last Shuffle lasted around nine years, this should also be a reasonably cost-effective option.

Blind cricketers to wait till January 5 for government approval

Fri, 01/05/2018 - 11:12 -- geeta.nair

BENGALURU: Association for Blind in India (CABI) president GK Mahantesh said the national team will wait till January 5 for clearance from government to travel to Pakistan for the fifth World Cup to be held from January 7-21.
"We will wait till January 5 for clearance from the government to travel to Pakistan for World Cup," he told reporters here.

New system develops analytic thought in blind children

Fri, 01/05/2018 - 10:46 -- geeta.nair

For the purpose of developing analytic thought and reducing mistaken alterations in data received by children with sight disabilities, a group of students in Mexico City designed a multi-sensory system that includes stories, jigsaw puzzles and stuffed toys.

“Mati Mati Makes Visible the Invisible”, is a system that reduces the difficulties of learning by developing analytic thought in blind children, said the creators, students at the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM).
 

India’s blind cricketers are champions – but money is still a sticky wicket

Thu, 01/04/2018 - 10:34 -- geeta.nair

they are brilliant exponents of India’s best-loved game, a sport that routinely produces millionaire superstars.

But none of the cricketers competing in the recent final between Gujarat and defending champions Andhra are going to get rich from the sport any time soon. That is because they are all blind.

Government to notify guidelines for assessment of new disabilities soon

Wed, 01/03/2018 - 11:21 -- geeta.nair

Patients suffering from thalassemia, hemophilia, sickle cell disease etc will soon start getting disability certificate from designated government hospitals which were earlier denied to them for lack of guidelines.

The Union ministry of social justice and empowerment has framed guidelines for the assessment of those disabilities which were added for the first time in the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016.

Our technologies to keep empowering India in 2018: Microsoft

Wed, 01/03/2018 - 10:58 -- geeta.nair

NEW DELHI: Various technologies at Microsoft that began transforming the lives of individuals and communities in India last year will gain further momentum in 2018, the company's President Anant Maheshwari said on Tuesday.

In a mission statement, Maheshwari said he is proud to play a role in the transformation of India's core pillars of education, health care, agriculture and governance, among others.

Today, about 25 per cent students drop out from grade 10 to grade 11.

Cricket: Sri Lanka for the Blind Cricket leaves for World Cup 2018

Wed, 01/03/2018 - 10:42 -- geeta.nair

The Blind National Cricketers will leave for Dubai early January to take part in the Blind Cricket World Cup which will be held there from January 7 to 25, 2018. 

The 5th such World Cup for the visually impaired is being organized by the Pakistan Blind Cricket Council with matches to be held in Ajman (UAE) and the final which will be held in Pakistan. 

Led by Captain Deshapriya, a team of 16 players and 4 officials have been selected and will represent Sri Lanka in the tournament. 

S. Korea court rules only the blind can get massage licences

Tue, 01/02/2018 - 10:35 -- geeta.nair

SOUTH Korea's Constitutional Court has ruled that it is not against the law to grant massage licences only to blind people because such work is virtually the only job the blind can have, reported the Yonhap news agency.

The ruling marks the fourth time that the court has rejected an appeal challenging the medical law, which allows only visually impaired people to win massage licences and open massage salons, and calls for up to five years in prison or 50 million won (RM190,395) in fines for violators.

200 take part in meet on disabilities Act at GMCH

Fri, 12/29/2017 - 11:09 -- geeta.nair

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 28

The second day of the national conference on the ‘Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016- Implications for various Stakeholders’ concluded at the GMCH, Sector 32, here today.

The conference was organised by the Government Rehabilitation Institute for Intellectual Disabilities (GRIID), National Institute for the Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities (NIEPMD), Chennai and Umeed Society, Chandigarh.

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