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Visionary school lets kids with visual impairment catch up fast |
Ebenezer School offers tailored therapy sessions and academic classes for children who are visually impaired
Many young students at schools for the visually impaired suffer delays in their... |
Achievements, Education and Employment |
26/Nov/2013 |
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Madhya Pradesh assembly election: EC's high-tech claims fall flat; SMS & phone service crash at polling booths |
Enthusiasm to vote turned into disappointment for many when they had to return without exercising right of franchise, here on Monday. Reliance of those engaged into election duty on manual rolls at... |
Discrimination, Policy News |
26/Nov/2013 |
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President launches book on visually disabled people |
President Pranab Mukherjee launched the coffee-table book titled "The Light Within" at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday evening. The book is a compilation of awe-evoking stories of the lives of visually... |
Achievements |
26/Nov/2013 |
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Paralympics boosts profile of disabled but no panacea |
Walking with Paralympic Gold Medalist Tim Prendergast along one of London's busiest streets, 'disability' is not the first word that springs to mind.
Weaving through the heaving crowds outside Baker... |
Adventure and Sports |
26/Nov/2013 |
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Visually impaired rural students go through counselling ahead of board exams |
Board exams are undoubtedly the most stressful period for every school child. It could only be more agonizing for visually impaired students, who have to depend on readers,Braille books and scribes... |
Education and Employment |
26/Nov/2013 |
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How to Do Right by the Disabled |
About a year ago the Senate fell five votes short of ratifying an international treaty that would improve protections for the disabled. It was an ignoble spectacle as the opponents rebuffed Bob Dole... |
General |
25/Nov/2013 |
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Adrienne Asch, Bioethicist and Pioneer in Disability Studies, Dies at 67 |
Adrienne Asch, an internationally known bioethicist who opposed the use of prenatal testing and abortion to select children free of disabilities, a stance informed partly by her own experience of ... |
General |
25/Nov/2013 |
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A page of vision created by the visually impaired |
The uncanny vision of a group of students of the University of Pune’s (UoP) Blind Centre has worked wonders for the city’s visually challenged students, who were struggling to find writers for their... |
Science & technology |
25/Nov/2013 |
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Blindness is not a curse |
“Lack of sight is not all a curse, it is the enormous capacity within us which can help us to achieve our goals,” said Mariyam Cementwala, political officer at the US embassy in New Delhi, in an... |
Achievements |
25/Nov/2013 |
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Make pedestrian pathways differently abled friendly |
Coimbatore Collectorate grievances meeting: Uneven roads, open sewerages, stray dogs pose a threat to differently abled persons, especially the visually challenged..
The All Differently abled... |
Discrimination |
22/Nov/2013 |
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