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Blind teachers struggle without course recognition

Tue, 10/22/2013 - 10:40 -- deepti.gahrotra

They have qualified under the special B.Ed degree category but are not considered for jobs

Visually-impaired teachers are waging a difficult battle.

They may have qualified under the special B.Ed degree category but are not considered for jobs.
Then there are the sighted persons who have undergone special training to teach the visually-challenged students; their course is either not recognised by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) or they have not received salaries for several years.

Union budgets since 2008 show India spends 0.0009% of its GDP on disability

Tue, 10/22/2013 - 10:15 -- deepti.gahrotra

Nilesh Singit, 43, completed his Master’s degree in Literature from Mumbai university in 1993 and a course in information technology soon after, and thought he was ready for the job market. Responses from the initial telephonic interviews too sounded positive. Then he went for the face-to-face rounds.
A cerebral palsy survivor, Singit was rejected by one company after another — for four years. Dejected, he decided to turn entrepreneur. Here again he was repeatedly refused a bank loan, his condition cited as a “big liability.”

Human Resources - Generalists

Mon, 10/21/2013 - 16:55 -- deepti.gahrotra

The information generated in these job profiles are based on personal research and interviews with people working within this sector. We interviewed mostly people with vision impairment who are doing these jobs to gather accurate and pragmatic information about these jobs and how visually impaired can work within such sectors and resolve day to day problems. For the following profile interviews were conducted with Anubhuti Mittal, and Nupur Jain (Learning and Development Specialist, corporate HR development, Wipro).

Special Education: Does India really give it enough importance?

Mon, 10/21/2013 - 11:31 -- deepti.gahrotra

Special education in layman's terms is the education of students with special needs in a way that takes into consideration the child's particular needs and understands their limitations. Within this stream of education, the child is involved in individually planned teaching procedures and is monitored by a trained professional. There also maybe the use of adapted equipment and materials as well as comfortable settings to ensure the comfort of the child. Special needs institutions aim to raise the level of personal self sufficiency and success in the day to day lives of the children. 

Making light of dark stuff

Mon, 10/21/2013 - 11:19 -- deepti.gahrotra

'I am a Kannadiga from Bangalore," Sundeep Rao tells an audience full of Tamilians in Coimbatore. Then he bends over and makes a show of hiding his bottle of water from the room. Even though Rao's left hand takes a second longer to find the bottle, the Cauvery crisis reference works instantly, laughter fills the delay and no one notices the Kannadiga's real problem. Bullet dodged.

A menu that speaks for itself: Blind entrepreneur launches app to revolutionise eating out for Britain's visually impaired

Mon, 10/21/2013 - 11:08 -- deepti.gahrotra

A blind entrepreneur has launched a new app to revolutionise the way Britain's 1.5 million visually impaired people eat out in the country's restaurants. Matthew Wadsworth created the Good Food Talks app after discovering many blind and visually impaired people share his frustration at having menus read out loud to them.

A vision for the visually impaired

Mon, 10/21/2013 - 11:00 -- deepti.gahrotra
The year 2007 was a significant year for theatre artist Aneesha Madhok when she questioned her parents for the first time. Through her debut play, Aliza Free that will be staged on October 23, she continues to ask the same questions—‘‘Why is there a segregation between the visually impaired and the ones who are not? Why haven’t I ever seen any blind people at parties? Why are they always excluded from the mainstream life? Why are their lives so different from all of us? Why haven’t we been able to extend a hand of friendship towards them?’’ asks Aneesha, restlessly. 

Abraham Nemeth, Creator of a Braille Code for Math, Is Dead at 94

Fri, 10/18/2013 - 11:31 -- deepti.gahrotra

Abraham Nemeth, whose frustrations in pursuing an academic career in math prompted him to develop the Nemeth Code, a form of Braille that greatly improved the ability of visually impaired people to study complex mathematics, died on Wednesday at his home in Southfield, Mich. He was 94.

Safaiwala/Hospital Attendant and Helper-II

Thu, 10/17/2013 - 14:38 -- geeta.nair
Railway Recruitment Cell,
East Cost Railway,
Bhubaneswar
Office of the Chairman
2nd Floor, South Block, Rail Sadan,
Chandrasekharpur, Bhubaneswar,
Odisha-751017
Highlights of the advertisement are given below, for further information and application format, kindly refer to the Employment News dated 12 October 2013, page no. 6
The last date of application is  11.11.2013
 
Last date for receipt of application from candidates residing in far flung areas: 25.11.2013

Delhi University: Math foundation course mix-up has students in a bind

Thu, 10/17/2013 - 12:37 -- deepti.gahrotra

Teachers have not only been confounded by the question of what to teach in case of Foundation Courses, but also when to teach in the case of the course on "Mathematical Awareness." This was designed especially for blind students, as a substitute for " Building Mathematical Ability" and was meant to be taught in the second semester. However, several colleges are already teaching it and the paper has also showed up on the datesheet for the semester-end exams.

Nagpur students create hi-tech ‘eyes’ to help blind people

Thu, 10/17/2013 - 12:26 -- deepti.gahrotra

What are the things most difficult for the visually-impaired? Walking without bumping into things, reaching their desired location without help, locating objects of every day use and reading. While there may be devices that can help in one or the other of these tasks, a unit that can help in all of them in an easy way would be much more helpful.

DU drops math awareness from semester exam list

Thu, 10/17/2013 - 12:05 -- deepti.gahrotra

Delhi University has dropped Mathematical Awareness, a foundation course which replaces Building Mathematical Ability for the visually impaired, from the date-sheet of the end-semester exams set to start in November.

Its inclusion in the sheet had caused much confusion among students as well as teachers as it contradicted instructions from Delhi University's equal opportunity cell to teach the course only in the second semester.

Perkins Brailler

Employment statistics prove that braille literacy is essential to productive, independent living for people who are blind. The Next Generation Perkins Brailler weighs 25% less than its predecessor, meaning that more children around the world who are blind can carry their braille writing machines to and from school. 

The NEW Next Generation Perkins Brailler carries this mission into the future. This sleek, lightweight, quiet version of the much-loved Classic Perkins Brailler will make writing in braille much easier and more accessible.

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