The Government Teachers Training Centre for Visually Handicapped and Hearing Handicapped in Tilak Nagar is in great demand after a landmark judgment from Delhi High Court. This centre conducts a two-year D Ed course for special teachers.
The visually-challenged teachers in the state would soon grow out of the need for a helping hand to take them around in schools.
The 248 visually-impaired teachers are in the process of developing tactile maps, which provide them the layout of their school environment, enabling easy mobility.
Breaking barriers, a group of Pune-based visually impaired youth are writing computer programmes for a US-based information technology (IT) company to enable it to better sell its cloud computing products. The five visually-impaired youth, who belong to Techvision, the IT unit of the city-based NGO, Niwant Andh Mukta Vikasalaya, are working on integrating the US firm Boardwalktech’s existing Excel platform with emerging spreadsheet applications.
The Gauhati University, in collaboration with NTPC Limited, started an information communication training centre (ITC) at the department of disability study on Wednesday. The aim behind this training centre is to encourage students with disability to pursue higher education in the field of science and technology.
Power minister Pradyut Bordoloi, who inaugurated the centre, said, “It is really a memorable day as such a training centre would definitely help differently abled students to pursue higher education in science and technology.”
In a step that would bring relief to scores of blind persons aspiring for clerical jobs across the country, the government has decided to provide them a special keyboard and screen reading software while appearing for recruitment tests.
The order of the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment will be applicable for the recruitment tests scheduled in the first fortnight of this month.
Disability activists have welcomed the move by the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to do away with hands-on practical components in basic sciences for visually-impaired students (class 11 and 12) and replaced it with a multiple-choice question paper instead.
Mr. Pincha issued directions in this regard to Chief Secretary S.V. Ranganath and other top-ranking officials concerned during his two-day review of the implementation of welfare measures for persons with disabilities by the State Government.
Speakers at a five-day workshop on ‘Orientation to Braille' organised here on Monday laid emphasis on the need to spread awareness on Braille, and cover all visually impaired persons under the Braille literacy programmes, including ones in regular educational institutions.
PEOPLE Partho Bhowmick, whose Blind With Camera project teaches photography to the visually impaired, has trained 200 students since 2006
One corporate executive has proven, as the sports ad goes, that nothing is impossible. Mumbai-based Partho Bhowmick started the “Blind With Camera” project in 2006 teaching photography to the visually impaired and won the Karmaveer Puraskaar (National Award for Social Justice and Citizen Action) in 2009.
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy has stressed the need for roping in the private sector to provide jobs for the physically-challenged. Speaking at the 44th annual conference of the Kerala Federation of the Blind here on Sunday, the Chief Minister said that the technological breakthrough in the IT and Communication sectors had opened up new opportunities for the physically-challenged, including the visually challenged.
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