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Special Education: Does India really give it enough importance? |
Special education in layman's terms is the education of students with special needs in a way that takes into consideration the child's particular needs and understands their limitations. Within this... |
Education and Employment |
21/Oct/2013 |
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Making light of dark stuff |
'I am a Kannadiga from Bangalore," Sundeep Rao tells an audience full of Tamilians in Coimbatore. Then he bends over and makes a show of hiding his bottle of water from the room. Even though Rao's... |
Achievements |
21/Oct/2013 |
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A menu that speaks for itself: Blind entrepreneur launches app to revolutionise eating out for Britain's visually impaired |
A blind entrepreneur has launched a new app to revolutionise the way Britain's 1.5 million visually impaired people eat out in the country's restaurants. Matthew Wadsworth created the Good Food Talks... |
Product and Technology |
21/Oct/2013 |
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A vision for the visually impaired |
The year 2007 was a significant year for theatre artist Aneesha Madhok when she questioned her parents for the first time. Through her debut play, Aliza Free that will be staged on October 23, she... |
General |
21/Oct/2013 |
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Light from the shadows |
Fifteen visually impaired students of the city collaborate with Korean artist Lee Jinjoon to create an installation for the ongoing IIC Experience festival.
Whenever Lee Jinjoon thinks of India,... |
General |
18/Oct/2013 |
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Blind athlete molested by autorickshaw driver |
A visually impaired athlete who had participated in national level para sports meet was sexually harassed by an autorickshaw driver in Old City area on Wednesday. The 23-year-old athlete had gone to... |
Discrimination |
18/Oct/2013 |
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Abraham Nemeth, Creator of a Braille Code for Math, Is Dead at 94 |
Abraham Nemeth, whose frustrations in pursuing an academic career in math prompted him to develop the Nemeth Code, a form of Braille that greatly improved the ability of visually impaired people to... |
General |
18/Oct/2013 |
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Rs 3,000 CR For New Disability Projects Again |
While projects worth Rs 1800-crore in the 11th Five-Year Plan meant for the welfare of the physically challenged have not been started yet, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment (SJE) has... |
Policy News |
18/Oct/2013 |
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Delhi University: Math foundation course mix-up has students in a bind |
Teachers have not only been confounded by the question of what to teach in case of Foundation Courses, but also when to teach in the case of the course on "Mathematical Awareness." This was designed... |
Education and Employment |
17/Oct/2013 |
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Nagpur students create hi-tech ‘eyes’ to help blind people |
What are the things most difficult for the visually-impaired? Walking without bumping into things, reaching their desired location without help, locating objects of every day use and reading. While... |
Science & technology |
17/Oct/2013 |
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