The payment system in the city's cabs is about to be more accessible for the blind or visually impaired — and advocates say the move is on the money.
Creative Mobile Technologies, which powers the touch-screen systems inside half the cabs in New York City’s fleet of 13,000, will begin upgrading their existing technology to allow the visually impaired to know their fare and use the credit card payment system.
“Be kind enough to call us visually challenged or impaired rather than calling us blind or handicapped” asks Habeeb and Akbar; the twin brothers, who fought their way out of numerous challenges since their birth in March 1982. Now Habeeb and Akbar are working as assistant professors at Farook College and Kalpetta Govt College respectively and are relentlessly working to achieve new heights in their career.
He's been blind since age 15. But nobody can say that Mason Ewing lacks vision.
Overcoming a nightmarish childhood, Ewing, 30, has been a successful fashion designer in Paris.
For the last six months, however, his mind has been set on Hollywood, where he hopes to create a teen comedy and a dramatic series for television.
Born in Cameroon to an American father and a Cameroonian mother and raised in France, his own life has been filled with drama.
A bill was passed in the Rajya Sabha today to widen the beneficiary net for disabled children in Right to Education and provide those with severe disability the option of receiving education at home.
Moving the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment) Bill, 2010, for consideration, HRD Minister Kapil Sibal said it provides the right to receive home-based education to children with severe disabilities and dismissed criticism of the provision.
The event will be held in Jothic auditorium, Johor Bahru at 7.00pm, on 29th April 2012.
Sunadha is unique cultural troupe from Samarthanam Trust, India. They will be performing Indian classical and folk dance.
According to Banumathi Krishnan, the head of the dance unit for the Johor Bahru Temple of Fine Arts, the proceeds from the tickets will be spent on the troupe, organising costs and some will be allocated for land funds.
The Justice Department says its recent inspection of a New Orleans jail found “alarming conditions” and uncovered persistently high rates of prisoner-on-prisoner violence and staff misconduct.
In a letter Monday to Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman, the Justice Department’s civil rights division accused jail officials of failing to take basic steps to correct “systemic issues” and “serious constitutional violations” that were identified in a 2009 report by the department.
This amendment adds children with disability to the definition of “disadvantaged groups” and will now be a part of the 25 per cent reservation for the Economically Weaker Section category, under the Right to Education Act.
The bill has given special benefit to children suffering from autism, mental retardation, cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities of choosing to study from home.
The Ahmedabad University (AU) has granted affiliation to a college of physiotherapy for visually impaired in Ahmedabad.
According to authorities at Ahmedabad University (AU), the three and a half year diploma course on physiotherapy at the newly-affiliated college will be taken over by the varsity from the new academic year.� BM Shah, registrar of the varsity, said that a batch of 15 students will be taken in the college as the term begins from this June.
The District Disability Rehabilitation Centre of Mysore has organised a comprehensive rehabilitation camp for differently-abled on May 1 and 2 between 9 am to 6 pm at the Government School for the Blind, School for Deaf and Dumb of Tilak Nagar, said deputy commissioner P S Vastrad.
The one and only Dada of Indian cricket, Saurav Ganguly has donned many avatars and his latest will be as the Brand Ambassador for the forthcoming T-2- World Cup for the Blind.
‘I kind of floated through my sex life prior to disability. I had relationships; I had sex; I had crushes; I loved...sexual possibility seemed limitless. And then came disability.' *Quotations from blogger Wheelchair Dancer on http://cripwheels.blogspot.in/
Would you date someone who can't see?
Can sex with an amputee be sexy?
Is it really rape if the woman has a mental disability and doesn't ‘know' what's going on?
The Delhi High Court Wednesday directed the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) to relax the guidelines for disabled students appearing in exams conducted by it.
The division bench of Acting Chief Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice R.S. Endlaw told the institute conducting the exam to allow a relative of every disabled student to act as a writer for him or her.
Researchers are adapting technologies - originally made for robot navigation - to help visually impaired people navigate indoor and outdoor spaces independently.
Students and staff of Tikshna, an organisation for rehabilitation of the visually impaired, staged a dharna outside the Deputy Commissioner's office here on Wednesday in support of their demands, including release of grants from the State government.
They took out a procession and raised slogans against the alleged negligent attitude of the authorities in providing facilities to the organisation.
The trend of plastic money has caught on with the visually-challenged youths of the City. They staged a demonstration here on Monday against non-issuance of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) cards to them by commercial banks.
They protested policies of commercial banks that deprive them of their basic banking rights. Banks across the country not only issue ATM cards but also make the machines accessible, enabling the visually-challenged customers to operate them independently, they argued.
Denise Delatoba of Gautier is the type of patient helped by the nonprofit Community Services for Vision Rehabilitation.
Delatoba, 49, woke up one morning unable to see out of her left eye, she said. An orange-sized tumor in her brain had pressed on her optic nerve and severely impaired her vision, she said.
Her right eye also was affected by the tumor, which has been removed, she said.
Even as there is much anticipation of the listing of amendments to of the RTE Act in the Lok Sabha on Friday, disability rights activists have expressed their discontent over the amended RTE Act that allows home-based schooling for severely disabled children. The Rajya Sabha passed an amendment in the RTE Act recently widening the beneficiary net for children with disability and providing those with severe disability such autism, cerebral palsy, mental retardation and multiple disabilities the benefit of choosing to study from home.
With the summer pool season approaching, a battle is brewing between advocates for disabled Americans and hotel owners over how to make public swimming pools more accessible to people with disabilities.
At the center of the dispute is a new regulation that requires hotels and recreation centers that operate public pools and spas to install or order permanent lifts — costing between $2,500 and $6,500 each, plus installation — by May 21. The requirement also can be satisfied by pool ramps, which are much more expensive.
A grant will help future generations of those with sight problems to "read" this newspaper.
Wells Talking Newspapers is an initiative to help the blind and partially-sighted to enjoy their Wells Journal every week.
Spokesman David Read explained how it has been running successfully since 1978 but it has now had a very modern update.
"The service is sent out every Friday to some 40 local residents on electronic tape via the Post Office who undertake this at no cost," he said.
THE first draft Constitution has recommended that under special measures, the State should not tax any assistive device used by persons with disabilities.
Article 59 of the draft Constitution says the State should promote and ensure the use of sign language, Braille or any other appropriate means of communication for persons with disabilities.
The document says the State should promote measures to educate communities on the need to respect the rights and dignity of persons with disabilities.
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