Education and Employment

Centre for disability studies in Ravenshaw University

Ravenshaw University has planned to set up a Centre for Disability Studies (CDS) for promoting directed academic activities on disability related issues as well as enabling effective capacity-building and mainstreaming of the differently-abled.

The Centre would offer specially designed programmes for developing human resources in the field of disability along with courses both academic and skill development for the disabled students. It will also promote research and technology development in various fields and issues relating to disability.

He makes number crunching easy for students

This city teacher is a Samaritan for many of his students for he gives them moral support and financial support too.

Meet V Fazlullah, a teacher in computer applications at JSS Polytechnic for Differently Abled (JSS-PDA). Fazlullah bought talking calculators for visually challenged students at the institute which has helped them immensely.

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BU Braille Resource Centre
Bangalore University has set up a Braille Resource Centre as an Enabling Unit for its visually challenged students in postgraduate departments, and affiliated and autonomous colleges. This centre provides assistive technologies to educate and rehabilitate students with disabilities such as blindness and low vision.

Don’t be sorry, just be a friend

Despite India’s attempts at inclusive education, schooling for special needs children has usually been a story of lack - of will, infrastructure and personnel. Schools, both private and government, would avoid admitting children with disability. Since the PWD Act of 1995, and the RTE Act of 2009, there has, however, been an improvement in the record of disability education, certainly in terms of its awareness and future challenges, and seeing it as a matter of right for a large section of young India.

Thanks for being there, teacher

LUDHIANA: Who could love and respect teachers more than them. Students of Vocational Rehabilitation Training Centre for Blind and Disable Children and Ek Prayas- School for Mentally Challenged Children expressed a deep sense of gratitude towards their gurus on Teachers' Day with their colourful greeting cards and dance performances.

Sightless angels who lit the lives of many

MADURAI: They might not have sight to see the world but they certainly have vision. They might have had a dark life, but these visually impaired teachers in Madurai district have lit several lives during their lifetime. Despite their disability they have created magic in the lives of hundreds of students who now hold good positions in the society. The yesteryear students never forget their teachers, as they cared to call their teachers and wish them best on Teachers' Day on Thursday.

Only 62 special educators for capital’s 18,000 special children

It has been four months since she went to school. Every time the 11-year-old turns up at her municipal school in Nehru Park, the principal sends her back, saying the school doesn't have special educators to teach her. The 11-year-old is a challenged child.

Rising above odds, they inspire students

LUCKNOW: Being a teacher with physical disability was tough but these teachers overcame the barrier to pursue their dreams of spreading knowledge. On Teachers' Day, TOI talks to teachers who achieved their goals despite odds and continue to inspire their students.

Though she is sight impaired, she has been shaping the future of many students. Meet Manjari Shukla, a teacher at a government blind school on Mohan road. Due to illness, she started losing her eye-sight during childhood. After passing class XII, Shukla lost vision completely.

Ravenshaw University installs software for visually-impaired students

CUTTACK: Ravenshaw University has installed a special software for visually-impaired students. This software, JAWS, reads out whatever is typed on the computer. The eight computers with this software have been kept at a special section in the Kanika library.

A scanner connected to these computers was also installed. It can read out the book placed inside it.

India's mobile school for blind students puts empowerment on the curriculum

Braille Without Borders uses a converted rickshaw to take a computer, printer and white canes to educate those most in need

In Trivandrum, Kerala, when blind children cannot go to school, school goes to them. Through an innovative project called Jyothirgamaya, or from darkness to light, a converted rickshaw carries a computer, printer, Braille slates and white canes to homes across the city in the southern Indian state.