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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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Tactile tricolour for visually impaired |
Shortly before India celebrates Republic Day, a group of citizens launched an "accessible" version of the national flag for visually handicapped. It is designed in three different textures, one for... |
General |
27/Jan/2014 |
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Indian student develops a toy for visually impaired children using open-source 3D printing |
Fittle is an attempt to help children who are visually impaired learn spelling of new words and understand the shapes of objects—all through playful 3D puzzles.
Helping blind children... |
Achievements, Product and Technology |
27/Jan/2014 |
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Chaos prevails at assessment camp for disabled people |
Confusion and chaos prevailed at the comprehensive assessment camp for persons with disabilities of various categories like locomotor and speech and hearing impaired and visually impaired at... |
Policy News |
27/Jan/2014 |
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