Users wear the device on their wrist. It features a reel of twine that sits on the back of the hand and runs through a straw to an attachment on the user's forefinger.
A visually-impaired woman here has published the Quran in Arabic Braille.
"Our institute's 23-year-old secretary, Rabia Khan, who is herself blind since birth has prepared the Arabic Braille Quran," Chairman of the Madrasa Noor Research Institute for the Blind Haleem Khan told reporters.
State Commissionerate for Persons with Disabilities should be empowered and strengthened, said Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities Prasanna Kumar Pincha.
The Commissioner, who is on a visit to the state to review the implementation of the Persons With Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995, told a press conference here on Thursday that he was surprised to find that the state commission, a quasi-judicial body, lacked adequate staff with only two staff members and without even a peon.
It is grueling enough to swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles and run 26.2 miles, but imagine doing all of that when you can only see a blur of light ahead of you.
Kristina Ament, a 52-year-old federal prosecutor, has completed four Ironman triathlons under those exact conditions because of her Leber congenital amaurosis, a degenerative disease that causes acute vision loss.
Police met with residents who are blind or visually impaired Wednesday to discuss concerns about a string of robberies in which two elderly women and a blind woman were attacked. "We can't beat crime but we can fight it," said Kim Mceachirn, a blind man who lives in North College Hill. "We want that perception to come back that College Hill is as safe now as it was three or four years ago. I don't have that feeling and I just moved here," Mceachirn added.
IT is not easy to draw a picture of a child who is visually impaired but is eager to attend school and play with other children. But Ms Mwaka Juma Mussa (43), caring for five such children of her own has a different story.
Her struggle to raise the children involves making sure that they never miss school and have enough time to play.
Mwaka looks pooped, but stable in her house partly roofed with coconut leaves and loose iron sheets. It was lunch time and her young visually impaired son was demanding something to eat.
Calgary is seeking a “design and prototype” of tactile-map technology to help people with visual impairments navigate the city’s transit system.
“We’re looking for something that can be handheld, easily distributed through our customer-service centre, and potentially through the CNIB,” said Chris Jordan, manager of strategic planning with Calgary Transit.
The idea came from citizen feedback during the city’s RouteAhead transit planning process.
Microsoft is working with charity Guide Dogs for the Blind, to develop a Google Glass-like wearable that will help the visually impaired get around in crowded places including the public transport.
As reported by The Daily Mail, the device resembles the Alice Band and uses an earpiece for navigation instructions. It works by bouncing information from sensors mounted on any item such as buildings or train carriages to a receiver in the wearer’s headband. The user is able to receive personalised instructions, such as how to get to the airport on time if a train is delayed.
He often mixes up 'who' with 'how'. And, when asked for directions, he needs to look at the hand with which he eats to point towards the right direction. Apoorv Agarwal is dyslexic and has just made it to Indian Institute of Management, Raipur, acknowledging his disability for the first time during his interview there.
"Because of high content of lead in my blood, language comprehension gets affected, but I will manage because I need to be an example for my sister," says Agarwal. His ..
Twelve blind class 7 girl students, who passed out from Kamla Mehta Dadar School for the Blind, will not be able to pursue further studies this year. This Marathi medium school has classes only up to class 7.
And for further studies students from this school go to the nearby Saraswati High School at Naigaon (Dadar) where they are provided separate resource teachers along with regular teachers. This year however, Saraswati HS is not enrolling blind students in class 8 as it does not have resource teachers as well as regular teachers to engage this class.
One morning in October 1931, the twelve-year-old John Wilson’s life was to change forever. In a chemistry lesson at the Scarborough High School for Boys, he and his classmates had to carry out an experiment.
“I was sitting on a high stool, playing the blue flame from the Bunsen burner onto the test-tube when it suddenly exploded,” he said. “The chemicals had been wrongly labelled and it produced an explosive mixture.”
In politics, it takes a great deal of maturity and courage to respect the body of work of a predecessor. In that sense, the NDA government’s budget is reminiscent of Nelson Mandela’s ‘rainbow nation’ philosophy, which adopted continuity in the face of volatile relations. This is a landmark practice for a government.
The tone of the budget was, in my opinion, smart to wise. While carrying on some of the major initiatives of the previous regime, it was able to enhance prospects for key aspects of Indian industry.
Washington: Scientists have revealed that a new oral medication is showing significant progress in restoring vision to patients with Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA).
According to scientists of Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), this is the first time that an oral drug has improved the visual function of blind patients with LCA, which causes visual impairment ranging from reduced vision to complete blindness, has remained untreatable.
The last date of submission of application is 01.08.2014
For blind people, Union Budget 2014-15 presented on Thursday was historic - for the first time, the word 'Braille' was given the importance of being mentioned in a central Budget. The role of a teacher from Gujarat, Geeta Vaghela, who wrote the Braille version of Narendra Modi's book on education, 'Kelve te Kelavanikar', may be behind this sudden impetus given to Braille in the central Budget. The Budget made the provision for 15 Braille presses and Braille-embossed currency. Vaghela had gifted the Braille edition of the book to Modi in 2007, when he was the chief minister.
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