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Robotic vision may phase out walking stick to help blind navigate |
Researchers are adapting technologies - originally made for robot navigation - to help visually impaired people navigate indoor and outdoor spaces independently.
One such system, being designed by... |
Product and Technology |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Visually impaired students seek better State support |
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,... |
Education and Employment |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Visually-challenged demand ATM cards |
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... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Doctor brings low vision rehabilitation to coast |
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.... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Home-based schooling for disabled is non-inclusive |
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... |
Education and Employment |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Hotels with pools want to tweak new disabled-access rule |
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... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Talking newspaper receives £2,000 grant from Rotarians |
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... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Draft Constitution Provides for Disabled Relief |
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... |
Policy News |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Tamil Nadu plans to amend Urban Local Bodies Ac |
In a move aimed at benefiting the differently-abled people, the Tamil Nadu government plans to amend the Urban Local Bodies Acts to exempt them from paying professional tax.
Tamil Nadu Minister for... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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Walkers will have their way |
Mention footpath and our cup of collective cynicism runneth over. Yet Corporation of Chennai (CoC) seems determined to prove us wrong. CoC has identified 60 bus route roads in the city and around 170... |
General |
18/Jul/2012 |
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