Vidya Sagar, an organisation that works with people with disabilities, hosted a panel discussion with authors and publishers who have written and published books on children with disabilities, at the Madras School of Economics on Saturday.
“There are very few books that can be accessed by children with disabilities,” said Rajul Padmanabhan, director, Vidyasagar. “It is important to include them in the school syllabus,” she said.
Over 52000 schoolchildren from all across the country lined up to take part in the Salwan Marathon held on Sunday in New Delhi. The annual run, which has made its own mark in India's sporting calendar that aims to inspire children through the inspirational power of sports, brought together students from various schools across India, including children from regions such as North-East, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh.
In a first-of-its-kind initiative, International Film Festival of India (IFFI), has tied up with Saksham, a non-governmental organisation, to bring the magic of movies to the visually challenged.
The idea is to make movies accessible to all, and, in the process, reach out to wider audiences. Initiated in collaboration with UNESCO, the move, aimed at empowering persons belonging to marginalised sections of society, will see the visually challenged enjoy films screened at IFFI like common audiences.
Cricket Association for the Blind in India (CABI) along with Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled is organising a South Zone event which will be inaugurated on the November 3 at Rural Development Trust grounds at Anantapur. Six teams - Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Pondicherry and Telangana, will take part in the tournament.
Finals tomorrow
The finals will be held on November 4 at 11.30 a.m.
KOLKATA: Children with blindness will soon be able to savour classics of Bengali literature, thanks to a combined effort of three top institutes of higher education: IIT-Kharagpur, Jadavpur University (JU) and Indian Statistical Institute (ISI). The computer science and technology department of IIT-Kgp has devised a software that is helping render some of these evergreen texts into braille, the first time this is being done with an Indian language.
Gurvinder Singh
Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, October 31
The district administration has come up with electronic toilets at Braille Bhawan to help the visually impaired and physically challenged people.
These toilets are equipped with sensors that flush water automatically and the visually-impaired won’t have to grope for any button or knob for using these toilets now.
Bathinda, October 27
Miffed with the state government for not paying heed to their demands for the past several years, members of the Physically Disabled Persons’ Association today took out a march near Ambedkar Chowk in the city.
Tribune News Service
Jammu, October 26
To help people with special needs get disability certificates, Sahyog India, an NGO, conducted a disability medical board camp. The camp was inaugurated by Ashkoor Ahmed Wani, Deputy Inspector General , Jammu-Kathua Range .
CHENNAI: “Compassion and kindness are languages that the deaf can hear and the blind can see and the mentally ill can understand,” said Dr Sarada Menon, founder of Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF), as she received ‘Mother Teresa Award’ from Indian Development Foundation (IDF, formerly Indian Leprosy Foundation) on Tuesday.
Speaking at the MS Swaminathan Research Foundation, Dr Menon said the country has come a long way when it comes to mental health
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