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1000 scholarships for students with disabilities by NHFDC

National Handicapped Finance and Development Corporation (NHFDC), for and on behalf of Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment, Govt. of India, invites applications from Students with Disabilities for award of Scholarship under the Scholarship Scheme (Trust Fund) :-

Under this scheme, 1000 Scholarships will be awarded to eligible students with disabilities for degree and post graduate level professional and technical courses from recognized institutions in India.

Applicants may apply any time in academic year for scholarship under this scheme.

Basic Computers & Access Technologies by XRCVC

The Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC),b St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai is happy to announce that it will be conducting a training programme in Basic Computers & Access Technologies for visually challenged persons. The course will include training and practice sessions in accessible software including screen readers, screen magnifiers, OCR technology etc.

Specific customizable needs will also be looked into.

7th intensive training course for VI women

All India Confederation of the Blind is happy to announce that the 7th intensive training course for VI women will be held.

Venue: Delhi Premises of the Confederation

Duration of the course: 16th May to 30th June, 2012.

ELIGIBILITY

Upto 30 ladies in the age range of 18 to 35 years are eligible to apply for admission to the course.

Preference will be given to ladies having graduation as the educational qualification.

They should be proficient in speaking and understanding Hindi and English and be in good health.

Voice Vision FIRST AID TRAINING

Voice Vision’s 12th anniversary session will not only tell you how, but also teach you how, through a day-long workshop on first-aid techniques.

Training Course - FM Radio Broadcasting and Audio Advertising

All India Confederation of the Blind (AICB) is launching an innovative and challenging training programme for our young visually impaired friends. The course is sponsored by NABP, Norway. It gives us pleasure to inform you that realising the immense potential for generating earnings in the fields of radio broadcasting and advertising, we have, now, finalised necessary arrangements for starting the above course.

Duration of course - 3 months

Two year Certificate Course in Physiotherapy

INTRODUCTION OF THE COURSE:

Physiotherapy is one of the professions supplementary to medicine. It is used to restore and increase the impaired bodily function and to help the patients to achieve maximum efficiency in their activities of daily living at home, at work or at leisure.

Employability Enhancement Training 2012

We are pleased to inform you that Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. are going to start our next batch of Advanced Computer Training Center (ACTC) in 4th week of January 2012. The tentative date for the commencement of the batch is 24th January 2012. The successful candidates would be given certificates from Tata Consultancy Services Ltd after the course.

IBPS Model Papers' Handbook

Xavier's Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC), Mumbai, with the kind permission of Maharashtra State Bank Employees Federation, has made an accessible version of "HANDBOOK ON MODEL PAPERS FOR IBPS RECRUITMENT EXAMINATION" (Publication No. 2, dated - 18th October 2011) for clerical level. This book is published by Banking Personnel Training Centre, Maharashtra State Bank Employees Federation (Affiliated to All India Bank Employees Association).

This accessible hand book has 5 sections as given below:

Computer training by Ujagar (SCEH)

Computer training by Ujagar (Dr. Shroff's Charity Eye Hospital)

The details of this course is as follows:

1. Orientation of keyboard and English typing through Talking Typer.

2. Complete training in various Applications of Microsoft Office like:
(a) Microsoft Word
(B) Microsoft Excel
(c) Microsoft Power Point

3. Training in internet
(a) How to search on Google
(b) Complete knowledge about Gmail

4. Scanning

5. Installation of JAWS

One year Post Graduate Diploma Course in Media & Disability Communication (PGDMDC) at AYJNIHH

Training workshop on screen reading software by IIIT-Hyderabad, India

IIIT-Hyderabad, India, is conducting a training workshop for visually challenged individuals. The objective of this workshop is to train individuals on using computers through an open source screen reading software "NVDA" in both Indian accented English and in Telugu language. The Telugu text-to-speech system used in this workshop is being developed at IIIT-Hyderabad as a part of MCIT sponsored consortium project.

Advanced Computer Training Centre (ACTC) by TCS Maitree and Mitra Jyothi

We are pleased to inform you that Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. – Maitree, is conducting the 8th All India batch of Advanced Computer Training Center (ACTC) for Visually Impaired. The training will be conducted in the premises of our partnering organization; Mitra Jyothi at Bangalore. This will be a 40-45 days residential training program and will commence on 16th July 2012.

The course content is:

1. IT Infrastructure & Service Management

2. Building competency for the Business Process Outsourcing

3. Soft skills.

Computer Training for Visually Impaired by Mitra Jyothi in collaboration with Enable India

Visually Impaired by MITRA JYOTHI In technical collaboration with
Enable India SUMMER COURSE

Introduction to Short Term Computer Training

Refresher course on computer application and assistive technologies by EOC, DU

Refresher course on computer application and assistive technologies, 13 June-22 July 2011

(15 participants) Duration: 3 weeks, 10 AM to 1 PM

Who can apply: Any person with disability having basic computer knowledge

Description: This training will help computer literate persons with disabilities enhance their computer skills. This training will focus on use of open source screen reader software for Hindi and regional language computing.

IISE Leadership Course

Braille Without Borders started a new project in Kerala, South India.
It is called the International Institute for Social Entrepreneurs (IISE).
The IISE (http://www.bwb-iise.org) is a dream-factory where participants from all over the world share visions and acquire all necessary skills to create social change.

VIPs in Commerce

We are bringing together people with visual impairment who are in to the stream of commerce & economics in an email group called VIPs in Commerce.

Because not many V I people take up commerce as their field of study or work, those few into it face difficulties in arranging for accessible material, knowing better ways of working & learning subjects such as accounts, economics, taxation, costing, finance etc. So we felt sharing of knowledge and experience is really needed in this domain.

Computer training by RCG-SRVC

We are so glad to inform you that Rotary Club of Cochin Global-Society for Rehabilitation of the Visually Challenged (RCG SRVC) Centre is planning to start the sixth batch of computer training for the visually challenged on February 6, 2012. The details are given below.

Course content:
1. Computer training which includes basic computer training, MS office applications like word, excel, and power point
2. Communicative English training.
3. Personality development.
4. Mobility and orientation.

Workshops on computer concepts at EnAble India

EnAble India is planning to conduct Workshops on various computer concepts from first week of May 2011 to last week of July 2011. Based on requests, we will schedule the workshops.

Listed below are the various workshops which we are planning to conduct.

1. Workshop Name: Computer basics using JAWS
Duration: 6 Weeks
Batch Size: 15
Eligibility:
Any visually impaired student or employee with minimum educational qualification of SSLC pass
Must have Basic English knowledge

Short Term Orientation Course on Computer Application 2012

Introduction

This is an initiative from Mitra Jyothi - Enable India team towards giving quality computer training for visually impaired people who are working or studying, and not able to attend regular computer training. This is a Short Term Orientation Course on Computer Application for Visually Impaired in collaboration with National
Institute of the Visually Handicapped (NIVH), Dehradun. Main goal of this course is to increase the candidate’s knowledge on Computer Basics and making them efficient in using computers independently.