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NTERNATIONAL YOGA DAY: VISUALLY-IMPAIRED CHILDREN PUT ICING ON CAKE

Wed, 06/22/2016 - 10:36 -- geeta.nair

A “sea of humanity” came together in the national Capital on Tuesday to make the second International Yoga Day a great success. While foreigners and diplomats practiced yoga at various locations in the city, a group of blind children from Karnataka showcased yoga and wowed the audience.

Thousands beat rain for love of yoga

Wed, 06/22/2016 - 10:24 -- geeta.nair

BENGALURU: AMID showers early on Tuesday, about 10,000 people from all walks of life celebrated the second International Yoga Day at Sri Kanteerava Stadium. The programme was organised by the state government. The participation of the chief minister and cabinet ministers along with Bollywood actor Bipasha Basu added colour to the event.

White Sox Welcome Visually Impaired Students To The Cell To Play Ball

Fri, 06/10/2016 - 12:16 -- sharonee@eyeway.org
Armour Square: Before theWhite Sox invited her to U.S. Cellular Field to experience what it’s like to play baseball, Jasmin Washington had never set foot in a ballpark. The 16-year-old visually impaired student sophomore from Curie Metropolitan High School had only heard games broadcast on the radio.

With a dozen visually impaired students from the Vision Resource Program at Curie at her side, Jasmin had one goal for the day:

“I want to hit a baseball,” she said.

Turning Paralympic Sport of Goalball Into a Video Game

Thu, 06/09/2016 - 10:31 -- sharonee@eyeway.org
The bounce of a ball, the jingle of a bell and the roar of the crowd — these are the sounds of goalball, the Paralympic sport of champions. Introduced to the world in the 1976 Summer Paralympics in Toronto, goalball is the first sport created for athletes with a visual impairment. Thirty years later, a group of Drexel University students are turning goalball into a video game that uses auditory and tactile feedback to capture the excitement and intensity of the sport.

More visually-impaired children now going to schools: Study

Thu, 06/09/2016 - 10:21 -- sharonee@eyeway.org
There was a 17.36% rise in enrolment of visually challenged children in schools between 2002 and 2009, NCERT's eighth all-India school education survey has revealed.
With 40,635 students, Maharashtra had the highest number of visually challenged students in schools, followed by the country's most literate state Kerala with 38,230 students.

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