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Julie Scarle: Sports for all? We’re not at the finish line yet! |
WHO can forget the summer of 2012 and our Paralympic gold medallists, ‘Hurricane’ Hannah Cockroft, Dame Sarah Storey and local hero Richard Whitehead, who put disability sport on the map and are now... |
Adventure and Sports |
05/Feb/2014 |
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Donated human eye cells could help restore vision |
Cells from eyes of dead 'may give sight to blind'," BBC News reports. This gruesome sounding news is based on a study that found that after being grown in the lab, a type of cell found in the... |
General |
04/Feb/2014 |
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The blind coconut seller |
His world is dark. Still, 50-year-old Raja has to work for a living in order to look after his family consisting of a wife and two children.
He is usually to be found inside a small shack on the... |
General |
04/Feb/2014 |
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Concern over Disabilities Bill |
As a person with visual impairment, the experience of disability has been a routine one for me, and disability studies constitutes a significant part of my academic engagement as well. I have also... |
General |
04/Feb/2014 |
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Memorable Drive for Visually Challenged |
It was a memorable day for the visually impaired students of the Institute for the Blind as they went around the city as navigators for a unique car rally here on Sunday.
The event is a unique... |
Adventure and Sports |
04/Feb/2014 |
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Visually impaired artist aims to inspire, chasing his dream as a painter |
Artist Owen McCafferty listens as teacher JoAnn DePolo offers him advice on skin tone and brush strokes.
He takes in her words, nodding, before placing his face close to the canvas and getting down... |
General |
04/Feb/2014 |
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Visually impaired guide drivers during Nagpur car rally |
In one-of-its-kind initiative, a car rally for visually impaired people was organised in Nagpur, Maharashtra, over the weekend.
During the rally, participants used a route map in Braille to guide... |
Adventure and Sports |
04/Feb/2014 |
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In the equation: how to improve access for blind science students |
Studying science can be difficult at the best of times, but if you're blind, it can be even harder. Software to magnify text helps. But a German university has a better solution.
Magnifying... |
Education and Employment |
03/Feb/2014 |
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Lighthouse to debunk low-vision myths |
Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind hopes to shine a light on misconceptions during Low Vision Awareness Month in February.
Individuals with low vision have partial sight that cannot be... |
General |
03/Feb/2014 |
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16-year-old Mumbai student builds air hockey game for the visually impaired |
Hemani Kalucha won the Indian Robot Olympiad 2012 for her project ‘AR-Jen’ - The Robot Arjun. In the Mahabharata, Arjuna's story relates a great accomplishment in archery which, before Arjun, was... |
Achievements, Product and Technology, Adventure and Sports |
30/Jan/2014 |
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