Until recently, blind and visually impaired students in Kenya were still using Braille books for their studies. But Kenyan schools for the blind are now beginning to adopt technology that provides material in a audible form — and in the process expands their opportunities.
Cricket is a passion with the masses. Why should those who cannot see the ball clearly be denied their high? The All India Cricket Tournament for the Blind 2016 attempts to give fully blind and partially blind cricket enthusiasts their place in the sun.
LAHORE: Traffic was blocked for hours by two groups of protesters on Monday along a segment of the Canal Road and the Metro Bus route along Ferozepur Road. The chief traffic police officer appointed two DSPs, four special squads, 14 patrolling officers and 116 traffic wardens to maintain smooth flow of traffic at the site of the protests and wardens set up diversions on roads and chowks leading to protest sites. Scores of visually-impaired people from various districts of the Punjab had gathered at Kalma Chowk on Monday morning and staged a protest on the Metro Bus track.
Blind & Vision Rehabilitation Services of Pittsburgh is preparing to consolidate its operations under one Uptown roof — and place a community garden, trees and dog park on the rooftop.
“We really believe the new building is going to increase the number of people who go through the (organization's Personal Adjustment to Blindness) program,” said President Erika Arbogast.
This step has been taken by the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) and Minister of School Education, Vinod Tawde, with the view of bringing about changes for students with special needs in the state.
The Uttarakhand division of Archaeological Survey of India is adding a new section on its website, complete with voice commands and recorded narration, to allow visually impaired users to access information on heritage sites of the hill state. The move by the Uttarakhand division of ASI, also known as Dehradun Circle, is a first across the archaeological circles in the country.
The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, which comes under the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, does not have any information on the employment among the disabled persons in the country, according to a reply to a query filed by The Indian Express under the Right to Information (RTI) Act in September last year.
“Information related to the percentage of employment of disabled persons is not available,” the RTI reply says.
Mention the words ‘practice session’ and it conjures up image of players in coloured clothes, photo-op for fans or the air of pre-match excitement. And if you were at the cricket stadium near Aluva, which currently hosts the practice sessions of a national team, your applause would resound a lot louder when the players stepped on to the ground.
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