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).
 

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.

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.

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.

The two-day National Conference on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016- Implications for various Stakeholders concluded at GMCH, Sector 32 here on Thursday.

Speaking on the concluding day, chief guest, Justice (retd.) BK Mehta, said, “There is a need to sensitize every in the society toward disability. The persons with disability must fight for their rights. Now this is the high time for the various stakeholders to get united for the rights of persons with disabilities.”

Doha
THE Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), in collaboration with the Primary Health Care Corporation and Ministry of Education and Higher Education, organised a workshop recently to promote eye health of students.
The two-day workshop focused on 125 nurses and health professionals working in independent, private and community schools in the State of Qatar.