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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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Visually impaired hold dharna seeking review of persons with |
Scores of visually-impaired people held a demonstration in the city today demanding a reconsideration of the proposed bill on the rights of persons with disabilities before it is introduced in... |
Policy News |
30/Jan/2014 |
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Experimental contact lens aims to offer tactile sight for the blind |
Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at Israel's Bar Ilan University have developed a prototype contact lens that could enable the visually impaired to see the world in a whole new light.... |
Achievements, Science & technology, Product and Technology |
30/Jan/2014 |
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RTE has failed to enable the disabled: Study |
The 2012-13 study on children with disabilities had revealed that while 99 per cent of these children liked attending regular schools but 57 per cent of teachers were not trained to understand... |
Discrimination, Policy News, Education and Employment |
27/Jan/2014 |
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Him Prasad develops new software for visually impaired |
Semi-visually impaired Him Prasad Gautam has developed a fourth version of Dristibachak software for visually challenged people.
At a programme organised in the Lake City today by Inclusive... |
Achievements, Science & technology |
27/Jan/2014 |
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100 visually imparied to drive cars in rally on Feb 2 |
In an attempt to raise fund for the Institute for the Blind in Sector 26, Chandigarh, NGO Round Table India will organise a unique car rally-'Blind Man Rally' (BMR) - on February 2 from 9am onwards... |
General, Adventure and Sports |
27/Jan/2014 |
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