Speakers at a five-day workshop on ‘Orientation to Braille' 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.
2012/02/07
The Chief Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities has directed the Karnataka Government to take up a special drive on the lines of the Centre and other States to fill backlog of vacancies in posts reserved for persons with disabilities from 1996.
2012/01/30
Some activists have raised questions about how effective the move would be since practicals for students in CBSE schools.
2012/01/19
The government has decided to provide visually challenged candidates with special keyboards and screen-reading software to help them while appearing in recruitment tests for the posts of stenographers and lower division clerks across the country.
2012/01/09
The Gauhati University, in collaboration with NTPC Limited, started an information communication training centre (ITC) at the department of disability study.
2012/01/06
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.
2012/01/03
For the first time, the Education Department and the Integrated Education for the Disabled (IED) cell have organised a series of sessions to listen to the difficulties faced by the visually-challenged teachers and to come up with measures for their empowerment.
2012/01/03
The demand for trained special teachers increased after the Delhi HC passed an order for appointing special teachers in Delhi schools.
2011/12/28
From this academic year, such students from class XI and XII, will get special question papers without any visual inputs like graphs or diagrams for subjects.
2011/12/26
Public hearing highlights problems faced by kids with disabilities
2011/12/26
Maharashtra Governor K Sankaranarayanan launched the first Marathi Encyclopedia for blind children.
2011/12/19
The Bombay High Court struck down a significant provision of the guidelines of the Mararashtra Housing Area Development Authority (MHADA) on its upcoming recruitment examination of visually impaired candidates.
2011/12/12
14 visually impaired students following intensive journalism course (15-day training).
2011/12/08
The department of education and extension is working on a project to install advanced sensors at various locations often accessed by students to help needy students navigate through the campus.
2011/12/06
The Wadhwani Foundation would assist around 2,000 educated people with disabilities in getting placed in the IT/BPO.
2011/12/06
The state government of Orissa will provide scholarship to the children of disabled persons
2011/12/06
In a major relief to a visually impaired employee of Chetna College, who was sacked by the college because of her disability, the state government has order her reinstatement.
2011/12/05
Maharashtra Council for Occupational Physiotherapy (MCOP) has come out with draft guidelines holding visually, hearing and speech-impaired candidates ineligible for admission to Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (BOTh) and Bachelor of Physiotherapy (BPTh) courses.
2011/09/22
TechVision has just completed a paid project from the Silicon Valley, at BoardWalk Tech, a U.S. based company and they are raring for more.
2011/09/12
A 26-year-old 100 per cent visually impaired student from Kolkata has battled all odds to make it to the prestigious management school - IIM.
2011/08/26
The Karnataka Welfare Association for the Blind (KWAB) is organising a two-day career guidance programme for the visually impaired students on Friday and Saturday.
2011/08/24
Free coaching for competitive exams is going to be held for the blind aspirants by BGFI from 21 August 2011.
2011/08/19
'Devnar Foundation for the Blind' is planning to start an exclusive engineering college for the blind.
2011/07/14
The Delhi High Court today directed the Centre and the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to provide "scribes" to visually- impaired candidates appearing for Central Teachers Eligibility Test(CTET) tomorrow.
2011/06/26
The Delhi University may consider itself disable-friendly, but the South Campus has proved to be insensitive to the needs of these students.
2011/06/20
In a step towards empowering visually impaired persons in Himachal Pradesh, National Federation of the Blind is all set to open a school in Shimla.
2011/06/16
UDIS Forum has invited applications from visually challenged girl students for the Marga Schulze Scholarship.
2011/06/13
It has been two years since a high court order, but the Delhi government is yet to recruit permanent teachers for differently-abled children in its schools.
2011/06/07
Madhya Pradesh government has made available braille text books of primary level to all the districts for visually impaired students of the state.
2011/05/30
Gauhati University will set up a special centre to train hearing and visually impaired students of the state in computer skills.
2011/05/26
Only four out of the 800 colleges in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region have fully-equipped self-vision centres.
2011/05/26
A national-level chess champion, an athlete and now a school topper — Rinku Shekhawat from DPS RK Puram scored 94% in humanities in her CBSE Class XII exams.
2011/05/24
This year the admission for studetns with disabilities to under graduate courses in Delhi University will be conducted during 28 may to 8 June 2011.
2011/05/24
A federal lawsuit will be filed against the American Bar Association on behalf of a blind man arguing the required Law School Admissions Test is biased against the visually impaired and should not be required of blind law school applicants.
2011/05/11
Scribes in the city admit that finding scribes for the blind is a challenge.
2011/05/10
Additional time to crack the two-hour exam, option of bringing one's own scribes along with instruments for problem-solving and a question paper sans any visual reasoning to aid the blind are some of the key features of the Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) policy of candidates with disabilities to be implemented from this year.
2011/05/02
The varsity is now taking initiatives to make their learning process more easier.
2011/04/22
A group of students have come forward to record in audio form the entire syllabi of Class VIII to XII for the benefit of blind.
2011/04/07
Aspiring Minds Computer Adaptive Test (AMCAT), the country's first employability test will be held in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai on 9th and 10th of April.
2011/04/07
Participants at a day’s forum in Ho on Wednesday urged government to demonstrate commitment to “inclusive education” for children with visual impairment.
2011/03/24
Why Indian companies still hesitate to hire Persons with Disabilities (PwD)
2011/03/21
Resource room for differently-abled children set up under the RTE.
Barrier Free Access under RTE refers not just to infrastructure but also to learning process.
Each resource centre has three specially trained resource persons, two helpers.
2010/12/15
Ashish is the first blind trader at J P Morgan, and possibly in any bank anywhere in the world. His near-impossible feat has earned him the National Award for the Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, 2010.
2010/12/02
The Delhi State Council of Education, Research and Training has decided to allow an extra time of 20 minutes per hour to persons with disabilities who take the assistance of a writer.
2010/11/02
The Bombay high court on Monday sought details of the seats reserved for disabled candidates in Indian Institutes of Management across India and the number of such candidates admitted during the current academic year.
2010/06/30
Alpana Dubey, Goma Rai, and Vishal Jain are among the few people who have proven that visual impairment cannot deter them from achieving their goals.
2010/06/25
Bolla Srikanth, a visually-challenged boy, is currently pursuing his Bachelor of Sciences at the varsity.
2010/06/21
Sanjay Jain was awarded PhD in law during the 97th convocation ceremony of Nagpur University on Saturday. Interestingly, Jain's guide was head of law department Shirish Deshpande, who is also blind.
2010/06/17
Goma cleared the Common Admission Test, and then the 24-year-old did the impossible and said “NO” to an IIM. Her bags have been packed for the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
2010/06/04
With just 2 per cent vision in both her eyes, Aditi Shah did not let her impairment come in the way. She scored 91.5 per cent in Maharashtra's HSC (Class 12, junior college) exams.
2010/06/03
A computer training centre for visually challenged students was inaugurated in Berhampur by the Milton Charitable Foundation with assistance from the Ganjam district administration.
2010/01/08
A centre for disability studies is likely to be established at Pondicherry University. The Department of Social Work has submitted a proposal to the university in response to a communication from the University Grants Commission to start such a centre.
2010/01/05
A visually-impaired law student has finally won his battle against the Mumbai University after almost two years of perseverance.
2009/10/26
Kendriya Vidyalaya students with disabilities can now avail of free education.
2009/10/16
This is an initiative from Sarthak team towards giving quality computer training for visually impaired people who have completed their studies and are seeking a job.
2009/09/23
In a bid to usher in a ray of hope among physically challenged in the state, Dr Shakuntala Misra Rehabilitation University for the Disabled, the first university of its kind was on Friday inaugurated here.
2009/09/07
Four blind persons, who landed jobs with the Central Railway nearly a year ago, are still awaiting posting, and more importantly, salary cheques.
2009/08/04
The XRCVC-Tech Mahindra Foundation Scholarship is a financial support for the visually challenged students pursuing higher education who meet the eligibility criteria of the scholarship.
2009/08/03
Department of Education, University of Pune (UoP) in association with the department of Journalism, Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU), is offering a one-year diploma course in radio and journalism.
2009/07/22
Delhi University Equal Opportunity Cell (EOC) announced a new certificate course in news reading, anchoring and voice over.
2009/07/15
The railways, which has been the largest employer in government service, has decided to re-start recruitment process under the disabled category.
2009/06/19
The 6-8 months' course begins on July 01, 2009, and the evaluation test and personal interview will be on June 22, 23, and 24, 2009.
2009/06/19
With more than 1,500 seats on offer, Delhi University and its affiliated colleges are doing all they can to encourage physically challenged students to enroll.
2009/06/09
The physically handicapped students, aspiring to pursue higher studies from Allahabad University, have a reason to smile as varsity authorities have come out with various initiates that would enhance the facilities being extended to such students.
2009/06/04
All courses are of duration between four and five months and are part-time, so that they do not clash with regular classes.
2009/06/04
Effort to make admission process a lot more student-friendly
2009/06/02
Delhi High Court on Wednesday ordered the MCD and Delhi Government to take immediate steps to appoint adequate number of such teachers.
2009/05/29
Goel not only stood first among 1,034 disabled students who took the examinations, he was also the topper among government school students.
2009/05/29
In the UPSC Civil Services results declared recently, so far we have come to know of three visually impaired persons who have successfully cleared this examination.
2009/05/07
Himachal Pradesh Board of School Education has decided to provide free text books in Braille to all visually impaired students in the state.
2009/05/01
All eight students, three instructors and Leger, the school's president, have some level of visual impairment, from progressive glaucoma to total blindness from birth.
The chief mission of the school is to equip its students for productive, lucrative careers tuning and repairing America's 18 million pianos.
2009/03/03
Bahrain has vowed to provide all visually-impaired students with talking laptops to integrate them to modern technology.
2009/03/03
The interest shown by major IT companies here to employ visually challenged people has prompted the National Association for the Blind, Karnataka branch (NAB-KB), to conduct special advance computer training programmes for them.,
2008/09/22
THE STATE Government on Saturday announced to establish a university for the handicapped in the name of Dr Shakuntala Mishra.,
2008/09/06
The Punjab Government has decided to immediately clear the backlog of, the posts reserved for the blind and partially blind persons in the, state. ,
2008/08/07
Eyeway approaches the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) looking for specific information pertaining to visually impaired, people in the Civil Services. ,
2008/07/21
Thanks to a donation and collaboration between Gelman Library and Disability Support Services, blind and visually impaired students can now access resources in the library with more ease.
2008/05/03
Twenty, three visually impaired girls studying in Coimbatore and Madurai, received scholarships to continue their studies at a function organised, by UDIS Forum, a network that assists people with disabilities, at the, Bishop Appasamy College of Education.,
2008/03/18
Students of Devnar School for Blind bag four prizes at a State-level Abacus competition.
2008/03/13
A Newcastle specialist centre for blind and partially sighted people was declared an example to the rest of the country by David Blunkett.
2008/01/25
A blind chemistry graduate student at Penn State is making an impact in how visually impaired students get involved in the laboratory. A story posted on the Penn State website explains how Cary Supalo went from hating chemistry in high school to majoring in it in college. What made the difference? Having a little extra help in the lab.
2008/01/23
, Dell Computer Centre set up in Chandigarh is an effort to make the visually impaired children part of the rapidly expanding I.T. services.
2007/09/02
S.I.E.T. (Kerala) has launched a C.D. that would help class X students prepare for examinations.
2007/09/01
A two-judge bench of the Supreme Court has stayed the Madhya Pradesh High Court order that barred a visually challenged student from studying medicine.
2007/06/25
Career counselling for visually impaired students was held in Chennai, recently. Speakers at the event guided the students on the various career options available to them.
2007/02/28
, Model I.C.T. centre to be set up in Thiruvananthapuram will empower visually impaired people.
2007/02/16
, Pop-up symbolism, a new technique in drawing gives blind people access to art.
2007/01/22
I.G.N.O.U. offers financial support to blind teachers under a new scheme.
2007/01/22
, It is a yet another case of institutional apathy towards disabled individuals. Despite repeated requests, Suraj Singh, a Jammu University law student has not been provided with study materials in Braille.
2006/11/05
, Rajendra Dhurve aged 11 and Kamal Bhamore aged 10, both visually challenged have recently finished typing the Braille version of President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s autobiography ‘Wings of Fire’.
2006/11/04
Job oriented I.T. training for visually impaired people that the latest from union ministry for information and technology.
2006/10/30
, Blind in Business, a U.K. charity helps blind graduates get job and sensitises companies on issues of recruitment and disability., , ,
2006/09/30
, A variety of textures in this new tactile map, help visually impaired pedestrians distinguish places and landmarks.
2006/09/22
It was a great opportunity for visually impaired persons in China. With a special online training programme the blind people were trained as Psychoanalysts.
2006/09/02
Teaching is just not another job. It is about imparting knowledge, molding young minds. Visually impaired Suresh Biswal shows the way to educationist and teachers who are desperately trying to lure children to school in rural India.
2006/08/16
Meet visually impaired Nance Eldridge Coffaro. A hair stylist who styles wig with help of computer technology.
2006/07/27
The Visually Impaired Children Kit for Inclusive Education (V.I.C.K.I.E.) project provides visually impaired students books in digital format.
2006/07/20
Blind students in U.S. explore career in space science. A weeklong N.A.S.A.- N.F.B. camp gave students hand’s on experience in rocket launching, countdown and much more.
2006/07/13
, MoneySmart Programme helps visually impaired people manage bills, credit, budgeting and finances.
2006/07/08
‘Nethrodaya’ helps visually impaired people earn their living through a novel scheme.
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