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Center for blind, visually impaired touts new Uptown home |
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... |
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12/Jan/2016 |
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Visually Impaired Students in Maharashtra Can Now Record Their Board Exam Answers |
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... |
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12/Jan/2016 |
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ASI U'khand website now accessible to visually impaired |
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... |
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12/Jan/2016 |
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Maharashtra govt has no figures on the ‘disabled’ it employs |
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... |
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12/Jan/2016 |
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Here’s a sports complex with a vision |
Chief Minister to inaugurate the first-of-its-kind facility for the blind at Keezhmadu near Aluva on January 16.
Mention the words ‘practice session’ and it conjures up image of players in... |
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12/Jan/2016 |
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Her world isn’t dark |
Do the blind live in a world of darkness? Or is theirs an imaginary world with visuals? Some, especially those who’ve been born blind, have stated that their world is indeed dark and visuals are at... |
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12/Jan/2016 |
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Deifying people with disabilities a cruel joke |
In India, the people with disabilities are addressed by many denominations interchangeably. Since the mid-1980s, patronising terms such as “differently abled” and “specially abled” have been quite... |
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12/Jan/2016 |
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1.16 LAKH EYE PATIENTS TESTED IN SEWA SADAN |
As many as 1.16 lakh eye patients were examined and 12,534 patients’ eyes were operated upon in Sewa Sadan Eye Hospital during calendar year 2015.
These include 4,463 paid cataract surgeries, 74... |
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06/Jan/2016 |
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Visually Impaired iOS Users Can Now View The World Through ‘Aipoly Vision’ |
There is now a free iOS app that enables the blind, visually impaired, and color blind, understand their surroundings through object and color recognition. Optimised for the iPhone, iPod touch and... |
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06/Jan/2016 |
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The bionic eye changing a woman's life |
At Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital, a clinical trial is taking place in which six patients who have had little or no sight for many years are having a cutting-edge "bionic eye" implanted in an... |
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05/Jan/2016 |
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