A documentary on singer Vaikom Vijayalakshmi, directed by V K Subhash, was released here on Sunday. An august audience, including writer M K Sanu, music director Jerry Amaldev and Assistant Commissioner for Traffic Baby Vinod, attended the documentary release held at the Children’s Park. Vijayalakshmi has been suffering from an incurable form of blindness since birth.
Two dozen visually impaired students are part of the Summer Academy in State College where they're learning every day life skills as well as things specifically for the visually impaired.
"We're taught from a really early age how we're different and we need to access the world differently," says Jessica Minneci, a 17-year-old student at the Summer Academy.
The students are learning skills like cracking an egg, signing a credit card slip and crossing the street. Minneci says these are skills sighted people learn from watching their parents.
The lucky Mumbaikar from suburban Goregaon is athlete Neha P Naik, 23, who is a Special Olympics International Global Messenger, besides taking part in the 100 metres and shot put events.
Johannesburg: Members of the South Africa squad took time out to host a coaching clinic for visually impaired cricketers in Colombo on Tuesday, ahead of their second Test against Sri Lanka, which is underway at the Sinhalese Sports Club Ground.
The clinic is part of the `Seeing is Believing` campaign, which aims to raise funds for Sri Lanka`s visually impaired cricket team heading to the Cricket World Cup to be held in South Africa in November.
Secunderabad (Andhra Pradesh) based Ducere Technologies has launched the haptic footwear under their wearable technology brand Lechal (meaning "take me there" in Hindi) that helps the visually impaired navigate from one place to another.
Not many of us may be aware, but there is a chess-community of visually impaired youngsters in India. Capturing this in a black and white documentary are UK-based documentary filmmaker Ian Mcdonald and Indian producer Geetha J. who present Algorithms in collaboration with Vikalp at Everest Talkies on July 24 at 7 p.m.
A private tutor has been caught on tape brutally beating a three-year-old kid in Kolkata.
The police is on the lookout for the middle-aged woman home tutor who is accused of thrashing the kid.
The incident came to light this morning after a CCTV footage showed the tutor mercilessly beating the kid in a Lake Town home.
"We have received a complaint and are on a lookout for her," officer in charge of Lake Town police station Ashok Sen said.
According to the complaint lodged by the kid's family, the tutor was given appointment just a few daysback.
Visually impaired students appearing for tests like the computer certificate, bank probationary officers exam, teacher eligibility test (TET) or clerical tests are facing a major shortage of scribes.
While the need for scribes ranges from between 30 to 300 a month, unfortunately there are not many available. As the eligibility criteria is stringent, most students find it difficult to find a scribe.
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