Pankaj Ghosal remembers the time, the exact day and date when his parents took him to visit Akshardham. "It was November11, 2010, a Thursday. We spent the entire day there," he recalls. It was the first time he had visited a place of historical importance. But being visually impaired, he understood little about the temple's grandeur or beauty. For him, visiting the temple was no different from visiting the neighborhood mall. It was spacious, crowded, a place to spend the day.
Competition encourages innovation in braille and tactile literacy for the blind
How many times have you and I complained about the state of our roads and pavements riddled with potholes? While many of us manage to make our way around them, these can often translate into a real danger for the visually impaired.
Very few residing in cities might be aware that the yellow line dotting the pavement, or tactile pavement as it is called, is actually meant to aid the visually impaired. Any disruption in these - in the form of trees, electric poles or potholes - poses a menace for those who take to the tactile pavement for navigation.
Infants of blind parents learn to communicate in different ways with their parents and other sighted adults - a skill that enhances their development, a new study shows.
The findings add an unexpected twist to our understanding of how early life experiences affect the development of a baby's highly changeable brain, say researchers.
The television series to feature real-life stories of visually impaired and blind achievers in India across various fields
Renowned actor Naseeruddin Shah to be a part of the weekly television series, which will air every Saturday at 9:30-10:00AM starting September 21, 2013
It has been 16 years since India’s Chess Federation for the Blind (AICFB) gained recognition from the International Braille Chess Association. During this period, players have missed out on winning individual medals although the country’s chess players have gone from strength to strength. However, the dry phase has finally ended with 19-year-old Darpan Inani bagging the bronze medal at the International Braille Chess Championship in Belgrade on Saturday.
Imagine a place where blindness is considered a punishment for the sins committed in your previous birth and the visually-impaired live as outcasts! Sabriye Tenberken, a German who became visually-impaired at the age of 12, encountered this in Tibet. She visited the country in 1997 for an academic project.
PATNA: Twelve teams, each consisting of a visually impaired navigator and a normal driver, participated at the 'Blind car rally' organized jointly by the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) and National Association for the Blind (NAB), Bihar chapter, on Sunday morning.
Beijing has the longest tactile paving for the vision impaired among all the cities in the world. In theory, they are a great idea to facilitate mobility for the vision impaired, but in reality few use it because as one vision impaired person in Beijing said, "It is practically suicide to use them."
Tactile paving is made of colorful raised tiles, usually yellow, that allow vision impaired people to navigate their way.
Nearly half the world’s blind are in India. Of the 15 million blind in India, 25% are corneal blind and again of this 60% are children below the age of 12 years. These children have a long dark life ahead of them, but we can give them light through sight by some dedicated effort. Drushti Daan, a registered voluntary society has been working in the realm of Eye Donation since the last decade in Odisha. Every visually challenged has a RIGHT TO SIGHT and see this beautiful world. Drusthi Daan has collected nearly 2000 corneas till date.
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