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Beacons of light: Suma's success is a shared story |
A bubbly Suma cannot contain her excitement as she meets us for an interaction. In her young, dark world, meeting people is the only way she can connect to them and make friends for life. Visually... |
Achievements |
27/Nov/2013 |
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Legally blind Hal Lasko, 97, makes incredible art with Microsoft Paint |
The unstoppable ‘Pixel Painter,’ who has been making graphic art since it was all done by hand, uses the computer to magnify objects enough to continue his passion. And he has no plans to slow down... |
Achievements |
26/Nov/2013 |
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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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