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Human rights of persons with disabilities

Human rights of persons with disabilities

Persons with disabilities are entitled to exercise their civil, political, social, economic and cultural rights on an equal basis with others. Disability “summarizes a great number of different functional limitations occurring in any population in any country of the world.

Enabling technologies for the differently-abled

Enabling technologies for the differently-abled

With the help of computers enabled with speech synthesizers, students with vision impairment doing higher studies, are becoming independent in all their reading and writing needs. Computer literacy is giving the visually impaired and low vision persons new professional opportunities,

National Policy For Persons with Disabilities

National Policy For Persons with Disabilities

The Constitution of India ensures equality, freedom, justice and dignity of all individuals and implicitly mandates an inclusive society for all including persons with disabilities.

Education for the  Differently Abled, Special Children

Education for the Differently Abled, Special Children

In recent years there have been some changes in the perception of society towards physically challenged, differently abled children. It has been reiterated time and again that majority of these people can lead a normal life if they have effective access

Indian IT firms open up to the differently abled

Indian IT firms open up to the differently abled

Despite enacting landmark legislation to promote the rights of people with disability in the past decade and an increasing awareness of their marginalization, India’s actions to promote the rights of eight percent of its citizens has been found wanting, a World Bank report says.

The Differently Abled Person features

The Differently Abled Person features

Flipping through the newspaper one fine morning, a not-so-unusual news caught my attention. The heading goes like this, “Private Airline offloads wheelchair-bound man”. Digging deeper into the main body of the news, t

Special Educator

Special Educator

Special Education is that component of education which employs special instructional methodology (Remedial Instruction), instructional materials, learning-teaching aids and equipment to meet educational needs of children with specific learning disabilities.