COIMBATORE: Next time you visit the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, do not miss the woman who issues you the OP ticket. Her dark glasses suit her perfectly. But you would find it impossible to believe that she is visually challenged, especially given her dexterity with the computer keyboard.
Rio de Janeiro: Jason Smyth was crowned the world's fastest para-athlete after he won a 100m race involving sprinters from all disability classes.
A FORMER hotel for the blind and partially sighted people in Llandudno is still on course to open before the end of the year.
CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has directed Pandyan Grama Bank to reserve four posts for visually impaired people.
Navajeevan Blind Relief Centre (NBRC), Tirupati, has achieved a rare distinction in the field of service by bagging the ISO 9001:2008 certification for bettering the lives of the visually challenged. According to HYM International Certification, the honour is in recognition of its healthcare and educational services to the visually challenged.
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala State Commission for Protection of Child Rights has issued an order to transfer teachers with specialisation in hearing impairment from the Government Blind School (GBS), Vazhuthacaud. While the order says that it is a grave child rights violation to allow teachers without proper specialisation to teach children with visual impairment, it is mum about the fate of the three teachers who have been serving the school since 2009.
KOZHIKODE: His world may be in perpetual darkness but he chooses to light up other people’s lives, just like thousands of men and women who have donned the mantle of teaching. And for P A Abdul Kareem, a teacher with Calicut Higher Secondary School for the Handicapped, Kolathara, every day is a challenge to prove himself.
The blind spot of the human eye can be shrunk with certain eye-training exercises, thus improving a person’s vision slightly, a new study has found.
It was during her stay in Udaipur while doing her internship in 2011 when Sadhvi Thukral realised how, adhering to age-old traditions, many families still prohibited women from entering the kitchen while they were menstruating. Appalled by the myths and social taboos attached to the subject, she decided to take up a project on the same – but targeted at the visually impaired.
The Social Welfare Department has proposed to introduce an alert system in Metropolitan Transport Corporation (MTC) buses to make travel easy for visually impaired persons. Minister for Social Welfare B. Valarmathi announced in the Assembly on Monday that Rs. 9.50 lakh had been allotted for the purpose.
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