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Pune University’s special students get aid.MP3 |
Blind students studying at the University of Pune and its affiliated colleges in the district have reason to cheer.
In order to increase their pace of learning and enhance their academic potential... |
Education and Employment |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Grant will provide training program for visually impaired |
The ability to look both ways before crossing a street, read a simple recipe or punch in a telephone number is often taken for granted by those without visual impairment.
But nearly 15 million people... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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PocketSMS Lets Visually And Hearing Impaired Send & Receive SMS |
Bidirectional Access Promotion Society (Bapsi) has released an Android app called PocketSMS, that allows visually impaired and hearing impaired individuals to send and read text messages (SMS) from... |
Product and Technology |
19/Jul/2012 |
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National athletics meet for visually challenged |
Approximately 400 athletes from all over the country will be seen in action in the 8th edition of the National Athletics for the Visually Challenged to be organized by the Punjab Sports Association... |
Adventure and Sports |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Amend RTE and give choice to disabled children between ‘special’ or normal school: NAC |
The Sonia Gandhi-led National Advisory Council (NAC) wants the human resource development (HRD) ministry to amend the right to education (RTE) law to ensure that disabled children have the choice to... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Disabled pin hopes on RTE Act |
Poorva Subramanium is barely 10 years old, but has learnt an important lesson in life — not to trouble her parents when they come out of the schools they have been visiting these days. “It is... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Helping them rediscover life |
All was well with 24-year-old S Vinay Kumar till the day he was diagnosed with incurable congenital glaucoma. Rough days began as Vinay started losing his vision every day and finally lost it... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Haptic shoe shows them the way |
Having landed a much-sought-after job at the research lab of a leading global IT major, fresh out of college, Anirudh Sharma was working on cutting-edge product technologies. But what really drove... |
Product and Technology |
19/Jul/2012 |
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Visually impaired divided over role of Braille in the digital age |
Only about 10 to 12 percent of the nation's blind population are able to read Braille, and some advocates are worried that the nearly 200-year-old system of writing for the visually impaired could be... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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City’s vision-impaired learn life-saving techniques |
At a rare workshop organised by a city not-for-profit, 61 vision-impaired participants were given cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and first-aid training on Sunday. This is probably the first... |
General |
19/Jul/2012 |
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