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Madhya Pradesh assembly election: EC's high-tech claims fall flat; SMS & phone service crash at polling booths

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 11:36 -- deepti.gahrotra

Enthusiasm to vote turned into disappointment for many when they had to return without exercising right of franchise, here on Monday. Reliance of those engaged into election duty on manual rolls at polling booths belied tall claims of Election Commission (EC) going hi-tech. SMS service and toll-free telephone lines for providing voters with information also crashed on the polling day, strengthening the argument from many that the EC proved unequal to the task on this front.

President launches book on visually disabled people

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 11:33 -- deepti.gahrotra

President Pranab Mukherjee launched the coffee-table book titled "The Light Within" at Rashtrapati Bhavan on Monday evening. The book is a compilation of awe-evoking stories of the lives of visually impaired people narrated through a mix of vivid photographs and compelling text. The book has been compiled by a photojournalist, Sipra Das.

Paralympics boosts profile of disabled but no panacea

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 11:10 -- deepti.gahrotra

Walking with Paralympic Gold Medalist Tim Prendergast along one of London's busiest streets, 'disability' is not the first word that springs to mind.

Weaving through the heaving crowds outside Baker Street underground train station, Prendergast, who is blind except for peripheral vision, crosses a road without pause - exhibiting the focused confidence that led him to victory in the T13 800m in Athens in 2004 with a time of 1:56.23.

Visually impaired rural students go through counselling ahead of board exams

Tue, 11/26/2013 - 11:02 -- deepti.gahrotra

Board exams are undoubtedly the most stressful period for every school child. It could only be more agonizing for visually impaired students, who have to depend on readers,Braille books and scribes to give their best. 

To allay their fears and to help them meticulously prepare, lawyers and academics who are visually impaired themselves, offered career and employment guidance to more than 250 children studying in Class 10 and Class 2, who gathered in the city from the districts. 

How to Do Right by the Disabled

Mon, 11/25/2013 - 16:57 -- deepti.gahrotra

About a year ago the Senate fell five votes short of ratifying an international treaty that would improve protections for the disabled. It was an ignoble spectacle as the opponents rebuffed Bob Dole, a former colleague and disabled veteran, who came to the Senate floor to lobby for it. The Senate now has a chance to redeem itself.

Adrienne Asch, Bioethicist and Pioneer in Disability Studies, Dies at 67

Mon, 11/25/2013 - 16:55 -- deepti.gahrotra
Adrienne Asch, an internationally known bioethicist who opposed the use of prenatal testing and abortion to select children free of disabilities, a stance informed partly by her own experience of blindness, died on Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 67.
 

At her death, Adrienne Asch was the director of the Center for Ethics and the Edward and Robin Milstein professor of bioethics at Yeshiva University in Manhattan.
 

A page of vision created by the visually impaired

Mon, 11/25/2013 - 16:11 -- deepti.gahrotra

The uncanny vision of a group of students of the University of Pune’s (UoP) Blind Centre has worked wonders for the city’s visually challenged students, who were struggling to find writers for their examinations. The group has created a Facebook page, Drushti-Vision, through which they tapped hundreds of people readily offering to become their buddy writers during examinations.

Not only NGOs, but people from all sectors came forward to aid the visually challenged examinees. The idea of a Facebook page thus brought in a huge database for the UoP’s Blind Centre.

Blindness is not a curse

Mon, 11/25/2013 - 16:07 -- deepti.gahrotra

“Lack of sight is not all a curse, it is the enormous capacity within us which can help us to achieve our goals,” said Mariyam Cementwala, political officer at the US embassy in New Delhi, in an address to visually challenged students at Devnar Foundation for the Blind here on Thursday.

Cementwala, a visually challenged, is a foreign service officer in the political unit of the US embassy and advises the US government on strategic issues related to India.

Readit Scholar HD

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Weighing just 1.2 kg (2.6 lbs) it is the ideal solution for users on the go. As well as full close up and distance CCTV functionality, Readit Scholar 
 

Workshop on empowering strategies for the young visually impaired bankers

The Assistive Technology helpline of the National Association for the Blind Delhi will conduct the first workshop for  VISUALLY IMPAIRED BANKERS on 14th December2013 from 2.30 PM to 5.30 PM. Young Visually impaired bankers and IBPS qualified candidates are invited to participate in this workshop.

This interactive session on “empowering strategies for young visually impaired bankers” intents to provide a platform to share the opportunities available for visually impaired persons in banking sector.

Make pedestrian pathways differently abled friendly

Fri, 11/22/2013 - 12:08 -- deepti.gahrotra

Coimbatore Collectorate grievances meeting: Uneven roads, open sewerages, stray dogs pose a threat to differently abled persons, especially the visually challenged..

The All Differently abled Traders’ Welfare Association on Monday petitioned the district administration demanding that pedestrian pathways be made differently abled friendly.

In a release, the association said that at many places, pavements along the roads were uneven or the lids of sewerage system were removed.

Teachers

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 15:03 -- geeta.nair
Andaman and Nicobar Administration
Directorate of Education 
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for complete details visit www.and.nic.in or refer to the Emloyment News dated 16 November  2013, page no. 46

The last date of application is 25/11/2013 

Provide writers for disabled students: Delhi HC to ICAI

Tue, 11/19/2013 - 12:25 -- geeta.nair

New Delhi, Nov 18 (IANS): The Delhi High Court Monday directed the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to prepare a panel of writers to assist disabled students in appearing for the chartered accountancy examinations that it conducts.

The court has asked that the panel be constituted within six months.
 

Grooming Blind Children Can Be Tricky

Thu, 11/14/2013 - 13:46 -- geeta.nair

Dear Readers, A common folklore in some tribal settings has it that a young man who was blind right from birth was accorded by Almighty God a brief moment, about two seconds, to see.

The man appraised his surroundings in a hurry with amazement bordering on awe. He was astonished to see a donkey grazing about three metres away from him. He was thrilled by what he saw. The object, which was busy eating was stunningly beautiful.

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