Imagine a young blind child, who is too weak to hold a stylus in his hand, to punch holes on a sheet while training how to write in the Braille script.
After impressing holes on the sheet from right to left, the child has to know the pattern of reading it from left to right after flipping the sheet over.
Here’s some relief for blind students in Bangalore, who have to run pillar to post looking for textbooks. Snehadeep Trust for the Blind dedicated a Braille printing press here recently for the blind in order to fill the wide deficit of Braille literature available for the visually impaired students in the city.
The printing press was inaugurated by Malay Chatterjee, chairman and managing director of Kudremukh Iron Ore Company Limited (KIOCL), and BBMP councillor Rajendra on the premises of the organisation in Cox Town.
A four-day trade fair aimed at creating awareness about technical advancements in aid, assistive and rehabilitative devices for the people with disabilities will be organised here from Thursday, an official said.
"We are organising Swavlamban, a national fair on aid and assistive devices for people with disabilities, at Pragati Maidan July 25-28," said Stuti Kacker, secretary in the department of disability affairs, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment.
People living with visual impairment can be assisted to achieve self-reliance instead of living dependent lives, the Rwanda Union of the Blind (RUB) has said.
"There is wrong society's perception that the blind do not deserve opportunities or assistance offered to other people engaged in income generating projects," said Rachel Musabyimana, RUB communication and advocacy officer.
Two new modern Braille printing units have reached the press of the Red Cross School for the Blind in Berhampur, the only such press in Odisha.
It is hoped that the new printing units would meet the textbook needs of the visually impaired schoolchildren of the State. The new ‘Interprint 55 high speed embossers’ have been imported from Belgium as they are not produced in India. Manager of the Prakash Narayan Rath says the units cost Rs.1.70 crore.
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50-year-old Abu Gawere was a welder for the Indian Army, and was afraid he would lose his job when his eyesight began to decline. According to Section 47 of the Disability Act, a person cannot be fired due to his disability, but Gawere knew that the Indian Army was exempted from this. Not knowing what to do next, he turned to Eyeway.org, who did a little research of their own; and found out that civilians employed by the Indian Army cannot be fired due to disability. Thanks to the efforts of the team at Eyeway.org, Abu Gawere continued in a secure job.
Blind people defeat lobbyists in a tussle about copyright
Eighteen-year-old Sana Samad is the second student after Kartik Sawnhey to have been allowed to pursue mathematics after Class 12 at the Delhi University.
Life will no longer be a blind alley for Sana Samad, one of the two visually impaired students from the city, who opted to study mathematics in Class XII despite opposition and has secured admission to a prestigious Delhi University college.
Despite the government having promised visually challenged graduates employment opportunities through reservation, most blind people haven’t been able to land those jobs, said representatives of the College Students and Graduates Association of the Blind.
“The government has said that 1 per cent of the public sector jobs will be reserved for us, but we haven’t seen it implemented. When they talk about equality, they should also create opportunities,” said Nagarajan, President of the Association.
The last date of receipt of completed application form is 29.07.2013
India is home to 12 million visually impaired people of which 56 lakh are literate. The number of newspapers and magazines published out of Mumbai were only about 60 till May this year until former PR professional Upasana Makati launched White Print, there wasn’t a single English magazine in Braille.
Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. – Maitree, is conducting the 10th All India batch of Advanced Computer Training Center (ACTC) for Visually Impaired. The training will be conducted in the premises of Mitra Jyoti, Bangalore. This will be a 40-45 days residential training program and will commence on 5th August 2013.
Interested candidates are requested to attend first level interview on Wednesday , 24th July 2013 at Presidency college, Resource center from 11.00 am to 3.00 pm.
Para-athlete Devendra Jhajharia has created history by becoming the first differently-abled Indian to win a gold at the IPC Athletics World Championships as he bagged the yellow metal in javelin throw in the sixth edition of the event in Lyon, France.
Jhajharia, also a world record holder in the event which he created while winning gold in the 2004 Athens Olympics, hurled the javelin to 57.04m in F-46 category, meant for one-armed athletes, at the Rhone Stadium last night.
A partially visually-challenged girl has topped the Ph.D. entrance of the English and Foreign Languages University.
The topper Jyothi Priya had done her MA Literature five-year integrated course from the same university. “I was not expecting to top the entrance,” she said even as she accepted that Eflu was a friendly university to the challenged students.
Delhi University has faced a lot of flak for the 'relentless' implementation of the four-year undergraduate programdespite severe opposition. The University, however, is doing its part to make education accessible to all, including the visually impaired students.
K Sriram is an example of what people with visual disabilities can achieve in life, if they have the necessary support. The commerce graduate from Loyola College who completed his MBA at IIM-Bangalore was among the 11 who received doctorates in management studies at the IIT-Madras convocation on Friday.
BPA introduces a new vocational training course in Ahmedabad. This is a full time health/medical field manual therapy courses for two years called JMMT, Japanese Medical Manual Therapy. JMMT originally developed in Japan, has for centuries provided blind people as a substantial source of employment. It has been developed in combination with acupuncture, Shiatsu, and acupressure. Dr. Sasada, the major trainer of this JMMT project, has modified it for global use by combining other overseas methods, e.g., Chinese, Thai, and western scientific approaches.
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