BHUBANESWAR: In a big boost to visually challenged students, the Orissa Association for the Blind here has installed a computarised Braille production machine, promising supply of study materials with updated curriculum round the year.
The machine, donated by KAS Foundation, has the capacity to generate 250 pages an hour, much more than the existing manual Braille printing machine in Berhampur.
Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, India’s one of the leading eye care provider, has successfully performed Intraocular lens (IOL) implant on Anandhi, who is just 4 years, using glued IOL technology. For the first time in the World, tissue glue has been used to fix an intraocular lens in an eye, where Intraocular lenses cannot be implanted. This new surgical procedure was invented & performed by Prof. Amar Agarwal, Joint Managing Director, Dr. Agarwal’s Eye Hospital, Chennai.
A new vision research center opening in India today becomes the latest in a handful of facilities dedicated to exploring the potential of adult eye stem cells to repair vision damage. The Champalimaud Center for Translation Eye Research (C-TRACER), part of the LV Prasad Eye Institute in Hyderabad, India, will continue research begun by LV Prasad scientists, who use eye stem cells from living adults to grow new cells that are then implanted into damaged
Score Foundation’s radio programme Eyeway - Yeh Hai Roshni Ka Karwan has been adjudged the best radio programme in the category “Best Social Responsibility Initiative” at the inaugural Radio Duniya Award 2008 held on February 12, 2008, at Intercontinental - The Grand, New Delhi.
A Welsh/English Braille dictionary to help users translate, learnWelsh and support the use of Welsh among Braille users, has beenlaunched.
The 22 volume work is believed to be the first of its kind.
The book, which has been produced by the Royal National Institute ofBlind People (RNIB) Cymru, was put together by volunteers andspecialist staff.
A teacher for the visually impaired said the dictionary would have a "huge impact" on learning for pupils.
The Welsh Language Board provided 70% of the funds needed to produce the dictionary, launched on Tuesday.
Underground lifts, ramps, platforms thathave wheel chair access, toilets for the disabled—this is the Bombayhigh court’s vision to make railway platforms disabled friendly. TheHC on Thursday sought a report on the facilities for disabled atrailway platforms in Mumbai. Hearing a public interest litigation onthe lack of such facilities, a division bench of Chief JusticeSwatanter Kumar and Justice V M Kanade asked lawyers Mihir Desai andSuresh Kumar to visit Mumbai Central station for verifying the groundreality at railway platforms.
A group of blind Egyptian female musicians has wowed audiences in Canberra, proving it is possible to achieve dreams despite having a disability.
The Al Nour Wal Amal Chamber Orchestra performed in Canberra last night as part of the National Multicultural Festival.
It is the only orchestra in the world made up entirely of blind women and is their first visit to Australia.
Conductors have developed special techniques to enable the girls to perform as an orchestra without the need to read the notes during a performance and without the conductor's baton.
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