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Dining blindfolded for a cause |
To create awareness on the challenges faced by the visually challenged and to raise funds for a ‘talking library’, a fund-raising event was organised in Salem.
The unique part of the event was that... |
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07/Jan/2020 |
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Visually impaired Easton native finds ‘a different path’ as an engineer |
Jack Duffy-Protentis said he has enjoyed working with his hands since childhood and looks forward to working in the automotive industry.
EASTON — Jack Duffy-Protentis is less than a year away from... |
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06/Jan/2020 |
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12 things you probably don't know about braille |
Surprising facts about the raised-dot reading system, including an asteroid named Braille and why there’s braille on drive-through ATMs
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND
January is National Braille... |
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06/Jan/2020 |
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20 SIGNS YOU’RE SUCCESSFUL EVEN IF YOU’RE NOT FEELIN’ IT |
This is not the typical blog topic you would find on my website. It isn’t centered around losing vision or living with blindness. Nope. Not this time.
With 2019 being such a challenging year, I found... |
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06/Jan/2020 |
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Walk of a kind |
A blindfolded walk held on IIT campus
“Wearing glasses is one thing and being totally blind is another,” said Vishwas M. Shetty, who participated in a blindfolded walk on the IIT-M campus on Sunday.... |
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06/Jan/2020 |
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When ophthalmologists saw the world through Braille |
Visually challenged children lead workshop for doctors
In a paradox of sorts, ophthalmologists in the city on Sunday took part in a workshop led by visually challenged children. They taught the... |
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06/Jan/2020 |
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New Braille calendar in Odia for the visually impaired |
The visually impaired in Odisha will welcome the New Year with a new calendar for 2020 like all others.
Braille calendars with Odia information from the Odia almanac that were printed by the Red... |
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03/Jan/2020 |
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RBI launches app for visually challenged to identify currency notes |
Users of 'MANI' app will have to scan the notes using the camera, it said adding that the audio output to give our results will be in Hindi and English.
MUMBAI: With an eye to aid the differently-... |
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02/Jan/2020 |
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Odisha student designs glasses for visually-impaired, will help deaf people too |
The idea of making a special glass came to the teenager’s mind when he saw visually-impaired people of his village wear dark glasses, but it did not help them.
A class 8 student of a school in Odisha... |
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31/Dec/2019 |
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How this Anand Mahindra-backed startup is empowering the visually impaired |
At Bengaluru’s Jyothi Seva Home for Blind Children, a particular second grader was once addicted to something that appeared like a gaming device. Despite getting repeatedly reprimanded from his... |
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30/Dec/2019 |
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