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Blind cruisers get to 'smell the ocean and feel the wind' |
This spring, Patty and Terry Horvath took 46 blind travelers on a Caribbean cruise.
The owners of Best Cruises & Tours in Grand Blanc, Mich., let participants pay $20 a week in installments for... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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India to host blind cricket Twenty20 World Cup |
India is set to host the inaugural blind cricket Twenty20 World Cup in December.
David Townley, president of the World Blind Cricket Council, says the group voted during a two-day meeting in the... |
Adventure and Sports |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Wheelchair uses 3D to ‘see’ for visually impaired |
Research on an electric wheelchair that can sense it´s environment and transmit information to a person who is visually impaired, has been tested at Lulea University of Technology.
The wheelchair has... |
Product and Technology |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Practice, not loss of sight, improves sense of touch in the blind |
New research from McMaster may answer a controversial question: do the blind have a better sense of touch because the brain compensates for vision loss or because of heavy reliance on their... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Admissions in DU for PwDs from 28 May to 8 June 2011 |
This year the admission for students with disabilities to under graduate courses in Delhi University will be conducted during 28 may to 8 June 2011. This is significantly different from the schedules... |
Education and Employment |
19/Jul/2012 |
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She can't see but her dreams closer with 95% in CBSE exams |
A national-level chess champion, an athlete and now a school topper — Rinku Shekhawat from DPS RK Puram scored 94% in humanities in her CBSE Class XII exams. Her joy knew no bounds on Monday while... |
Education and Employment |
19/Jul/2012 |
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No sight no flight? |
Even the skies don’t care for blind people in India. After Kingfisher Airlines recently made a woman get off a flight because she was blind, we ran a reality check on other domestic airlines and... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Colleges haven’t done enough |
Online junior college admission forms give students 30 options, but for Akansha Jadhav, 16, there are only four colleges to choose from. A visually impaired student of New English School, Bandra,... |
Education and Employment |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Computer hub for disabled |
Gauhati University will set up a special centre to train hearing and visually impaired students of the state in computer skills.
The university has signed an MoU with the National Thermal Power... |
Education and Employment |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Lingaraju, Visually Impaired but with a Vision for Dance |
He started learning classical dance when he was only 7. Now at 22, Lingaraju, the only male artiste in Samarthanam's Sunadha dance troupe, is an accomplished dancer.
He has performed in Australia,... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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