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Things to Consider Before Buying a Wheelchair

Wheelchairs are mobility equipment designed for persons with physical limitations particularly the disabled and handicapped. This type of equipment helps them move about and have some kind of independence or freedom despite the challenges they face every day. So choosing the right kind of wheelchair is important for them and if we have a loved one who is physically challenged, we would also want to provide them the best possible wheelchair we can get.

The handicapped aren’t a vote bank

Is there any religion in the world that can provide an explanation for suffering? No, finds writer, former editor and minister Arun Shourie, cutting through religious scriptures like a sword in his latest book, Does He Know a Mother’s Heart? How Suffering Refutes Religions. Shourie, who begins the book with a chapter about his son Aditya, who has cerebral palsy, talks to Lounge about issues of access for the differently abled, infrastructure and how small things can change the life of a differently abled person.

Assistive Listening Devices Can Help Improve Hearing

“What can you tell me about assistive listening devices? My husband is hearing impaired but doesn’t like wearing his hearing aids so I’m wondering if some of these devices can help.”

Vindhya E-Infomedia

A young entrepreneur who prefers action to words, Pavithra Y.S. (27) is the managing director of Vindhya E-Infomedia Pvt. Ltd, Bangalore — a business process outsourcing company offering IT and IT-enabled services — which gives employment preference to differently-abled people (orthopaedically challen-ged, hearing impaired and dyslexics). A commerce graduate of the garden city’s KLE College, since promoting Vindhya E-Infomedia in 2006 with a workforce of five differently-abled people, Pavithra has grown the company’s workforce to 200.

ARIA

Aria is a braille notetaker with speech output designed for use by persons who are blind or have low vision. This computerized organizer is designed with word processing, mathematical and communicating capabilities. The user can construct full-fledged documents, transfer files, drive a modem or use a statistical calculator. With DOS interface, this device can run external software. It can be upgraded; the system runs on 1 Megabyte of RAM and 2 Megabytes of Flash ROM (contains the Aria software).

Disabled as good as regular employees

Recruitment of persons with disabilities (PWDs) is a sound business decision. Strange as it might sound, this was the consensus at a seminar at a top management school in the city on Friday.

SMA Jinnah- Association for the Blind

Born in a small village Eruvadi in the year 1944, his father deserted family at the age of one, his mother died at the age of 3, left with a big family of 15 members with very limited financial resources, he lost is vision due to optic nerve damage in an accident at the age of 13, lost 5 years, searching for treatment before final conclusion of total irreparable damage to both eyes and permanent loss of vision.

Javed Abidi – Giving Visibility and Hope to India’s Disabled

As an impassioned advocate for India’s disabled citizens, he has given voice to an ‘invisible minority‘ – one that has been denied to them by both political and social sectors for decades. It is a subject that he understands firsthand, having been confined to a wheelchair since he was 10 years old. Born with severe sclerosis of the spine, doctors informed his parents that their infant son would not likely survive. They named him Javed, meaning immortal, and it is name that will likely prove surprisingly prescient as his dedication to this population will influence – and improve – the lives of millions for generations to come.

Inspiring Lives: Krishnakant Mane

Krishnakant Mane says that the freedom and flexibility provided by open source software enables him to work with a variety of interfaces and is integral to his work at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Assistant Regional Manager – Chetan Sharma

Born on 23.04.1968 at Pilani (Rajasthan) I lost my eye sight due to eye cancer at the age of three. I completed my schooling from a school situated at Ajmer and could managed to secure 90th position in 10th standard in the entire state of Rajasthan competing with lacs of students who were equipped with site. After completing my schooling.