Visually challenged students today sat on a protest before the disability commissioner’s office here demanding immediate suspension of the Utkal university faculty Sujit Acharya.
Acharya had allegedly insulted a visually impaired student, who was compelled him to attempt suicide.
The students squatted in front of the commissioner’s office on the premises of Capital Hospital, where the victim Chakradhar Dash is admitted since Friday.
Not many of us may be aware, but there is a chess-community of visually impaired youngsters in India. Capturing this in a black and white documentary are UK-based documentary filmmaker Ian Mcdonald and Indian producer Geetha J. who present Algorithms in collaboration with Vikalp at Everest Talkies on July 24 at 7 p.m.
A private tutor has been caught on tape brutally beating a three-year-old kid in Kolkata.
The police is on the lookout for the middle-aged woman home tutor who is accused of thrashing the kid.
The incident came to light this morning after a CCTV footage showed the tutor mercilessly beating the kid in a Lake Town home.
"We have received a complaint and are on a lookout for her," officer in charge of Lake Town police station Ashok Sen said.
According to the complaint lodged by the kid's family, the tutor was given appointment just a few daysback.
Visually impaired students appearing for tests like the computer certificate, bank probationary officers exam, teacher eligibility test (TET) or clerical tests are facing a major shortage of scribes.
While the need for scribes ranges from between 30 to 300 a month, unfortunately there are not many available. As the eligibility criteria is stringent, most students find it difficult to find a scribe.
Vikas Kumar Yadav, a student of BA (Hons) Hindi IInd year at Hindu College feels helpless when making rounds to the Delhi University library.
iBelong which is an initiative of India Didactics Association in association with BarrierBreak shall create the first dedicated pavilion for Inclusive Education at WorldDidac India 2014.The conference and exhibition promoting Inclusive Education.
iBelong is a platform for people who would like to better their services, their infrastructure, their facilities and their educational practices to include people with disabilities and these 3 days would help you to be able to share best practices and learn from international practices in the field of inclusive education.
Even as the nation writhes in agony over the Bangalore school rape incident, another shocking case of brutality against children has to come light, this time from Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh.
A teacher of a residential school for visually impaired children in the city was caught on camera brutally canning young children. The teacher is also blind.
THE Google Impact Challenge is run by the technology giant and asks UK-based charities how they would change the world through innovative technology.
Dragons' Den star and entrepreneur Peter Jones is on the judging panel, and one of the finalists is the smart glasses prototype from the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB).
That's Humoody Jauda Smith using sound to see.
The mother of a severely disabled teenager who has been given only a few years to live says she has been threatened with fines and prosecution if she takes him on a term-time holiday.
Curtis Ingrouille-Kidd, 13, has cerebral palsy, suffers epileptic fits and is blind.
His family have been told he could die any time between the ages of 14 and 19, yet his school would not give permission for the proposed trip because it is during term time.
The case is the latest apparent injustice sparked by a crackdown on truancy ordered by the former Education Secretary Michael Gove.
Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller on Tuesday presented a cheque valued at $1.52 million to the Jamaica Visually Impaired Cricket Association (JVICA) at Jamaica House.
The funds will go towards covering the cost for hosting the upcoming 7th regional visually impaired cricket tournament to be held July 18-24, the Office of the Prime Minister said.
A project to develop smart glasses which can help blind and partially sighted people see shapes and obstacles has been named as one of 10 finalists in this year’s Google Impact Challenge.
Created in partnership between the RNIB and Oxford University, the team has developed a high-tech, cost effective pair of smart glasses which its says will maximise the remaining vision the wearer has.
A 3D camera attached to the glasses captures images of a person’s environment and processes that information to identify shapes and object nearby.
The Times Foundation, in collaboration with JSS Mahavidyapeetha, has introduced a mass communication and journalism course for visually-impaired students at JSS Polytechnic For The Differently Abled.
The course, perhaps the first of its kind in India, aims at moulding students into radio/video jockeys (RJs/VJs), anchors, technical writers and digital journalists. The focus is on voice-based journalism as the course is exclusively for visually challenged students.
The application process for the XRCVC - Tech Mahindra Scholarship 2014 - 2015 for students with visual impairment has commenced.
This scholarship is open to students who are pursuing a professional course or post-graduate studies.
In order to download the scholarship announcement, application form and the income certificate that must be submitted along with each application, please visit: www.xrcvc.org.
A team of disabled athletes looking to participate in this weekend's swim race across the East River say organizers are shutting them out — ordering them to sign an extra safety waiver and pay extra fees if they want to participate.
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