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NBA: Celtics make New Zealander boy's dream come true
A 12-year-old New Zealander boy with a degenerative eye disease has lived out one of his dreams thanks to NBA's Boston Celtics, his favorite team.
Louis Corbett made a visual "bucket list" of things he wanted to see before his sight deteriorates and the Celtics made part of that dream come true Wednesday with a pre-game meeting with players, courtside seats, a souvenir shopping spree and an on-court ceremony at which Corbett received a standing ovation.
Education volunteer thrashes visually impaired
A 13-year-old visually impaired student of a resource centre at Government Primary School, Surgapurai, Kotkapura, was admitted to a hospital after he was allegedly thrashed by an education volunteer.
Parminder Kumar, a student of Class-2, was allegedly beaten up by the volunteer on Tuesday and was admitted to the civil hospital at Kotpkapura on the same day. He is still under treatment in the hospital.
"The victim has several injury marks due to the alleged cane beating on his back, arms, legs and head," said the mother of the victim.
Class action suit alleges POS devices in Apple stores discriminate against the visually impaired
A new class action lawsuit against Apple alleges that the company is in violation of Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act for not designing and providing store employees with point of sale devices (POS) that can independently be used by blind people.
Visually impaired kids stage cultural show
In connection with Blinds Welfare Week, visually impaired kids on Wednesday staged a cultural show in the City.
Govt vehicle hits two visually impaired students
Two visually impaired students of Post-graduate Government College, Sector 11, suffered fractures when they were knocked down by the official car of the Chief Engineer of Punjab Irrigation department, Harvinder Singh, on Wednesday.
The two students were identified as Balraj and Ramandeep. Balraj suffered a fracture in the thigh while Ramandeep suffered multiple fractures in one leg and an arm. The accident took place on Madhya Marg in front of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee office in Sector 15.
A New Vision Of The Web
Enhancing accessibility for people with disabilities is an insightful process. Often, solutions designed for a specific problem will improve life for everyone. Take automatic door openers, for example. Anyone with their hands full can push that button and enter a building more easily.
Digital accessibility matters, too. Websites as well as buildings can comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. In addition to website design, apps and devices are improving experiences for differently-abled people across the internet.
Have learnt things from blind cricket, says Tendulkar
Retired cricket great Sachin Tendulkar today said he was fascinated by the way visually-impaired play the game he dominated for close to two-and-a-half decades, adding that has learnt a few things from them.
"I inaugurated the blind cricket tournament about 14-15 years ago in Mumbai and I was fascinated by the way they play cricket, because you just hear and react to that. And you score runs and get wickets and you feel all those kinds of things. They are unbelievable and I was fascinated to see all that," Tendulkar said.
The CBSE Initiatives for Students of ‘Special Category’ Appearing in Board Exam
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is often considered as a student-friendly board that always endeavors to make examination stress-free for all students, without degrading the standard of education.
Perceiving the significance of education, CBSE has taken special initiatives for disabled students, letting them appear in examinations conveniently, while maintain the original syllabus, paper pattern as well as appropriate difficulty levels.
Affordable tech for the differently-abled: A sign of the changing times?
There are around 70 million people with disabilities in India, with half of them being under the age of 30. This was one of the facts that came up at the recent Techshare India, a pan-India disability conference and event, which took place on February 13 and 14.
Model polling booths for all constituencies in Delhi
New campaign to ensure better poll day experience for differently-abled will be put in place: Vijay Dev
Veer: Charudatta Jadhav, the visually impaired hero of Indian chess
A visually impaired chess champion, Charudatta Jadhav, is helping many others like him to master the game and checkmate the many challenges in life.
He may need a walking stick to help him find his way but he is a true master when it comes to the game of chess. Charudatta Jadhav lost his vision at the age of 13. The only reason that gave him courage to fight his disability at that tender age was his passion for the game. He soon became the blind superhero of Indian chess.
Visually-impaired students at UoH get pocket readers
The device can be used to record lectures, listen to scanned documents and web downloads
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