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Inclusive Education: English Language Classroom and Disabilities
Centre for English Language Studies, University of Hyderabad organising a National Seminar cum workshop on 23 & 24 January 2014.
Blind cheerleader who uses shadows to coordinate her moves dances into youth national championships
CHENNAI: In 1985, organisers of a district-level chess tournament in
Eyeglasses have long improved the vision of nearsighted and farsighted people, but now, researchers at the University of Oxford are developing a pair that could help the blind see.
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EMPLOYMENT NOTIFICATION NO.29/2013 DATED 28.10.2013
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For the festive season, NGOs offer a range of gifting ideas that will make a difference to the lives of the underprivileged.
At the Pune School and Home for the Blind, groups of four students make a product called Candle In Wine Glass. The wax, in orange and yellow, is poured into transparent glasses. When you light them, they brighten up your room. But when you buy them, they brighten up the lives of those students — in every group, three are visually impaired and one partially sighted.
A new Russian startup has developed a navigator with an audio guide that the visually-impaired could use to replace ultrasonic canes and other localizers.
In welcoming differently-abled people into their ranks, some companies are making sure their special-needs staff is as comfortable and efficient at the workplace as anyone else, ET reports.
Sixteen-year-old Sai Krishna with a score of 6/6 won the chess tournament for the blind organised by SDAT-TNSCA in celebrations of the World Championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on Tuesday.
Chess for the blind is very popular in the state, thanks to the effort of TNSCA. Specialised braille-aided chess boards were used for the tournament which was a grand success with the 76 participants. The tournament was played in a six-round Swiss format.
The children at MBCN are very excited about making products for this Diwali. This would include making handmade and printed paper carry bags, envelops, gift box, chocolate box, jewelry box, cobra files products, bangle box, office kit, gift kit etc. and various handmade products. The products made by the children would be sold out at the Kiosk in some of the prominent malls of Wave group - Centre Stage mall (Noida), Wave mall (Ludhiana and Lucknow) to promote the hard work and aptitude of the differently abled students of MBCN.
Regular eye check-up and early diagnosis of eye disorder are crucial for preventing permanent visual damage. This was the thrust of the 14th World Sight Day observed in the city on Saturday.
An event on this year’s theme “Universal Eye Health - get your eyes tested” was jointly organised by Ophthalmic Cell of Directorate of Health Services and Kar Vision Eye Hospital.
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Touchscreens have turned phones into computers. But the tech revolution has ignored the needs of the visually impaired. Now, Indian developers are working on the world's first Braille smartphone.
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