Emergency evacuation chair
IBEX TranSeat 700H safely descends and ascends stairs without carrying or heavy lifting. The IBEX reduces physical demands on operators and reduces the risk of muscle strain, hernia and back pain.
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All India Federation of Blind for Chess – Charudatta Vitthal Jadhav
He became visually impaired due to an eye disease at the age of 13. Today, Lives in Mumbai. He plays and promotes chess among the visually impaired; also he was the first Asian to be the Vice-President of International Braille Chess Association. He is involved with the All India Federation of Blind for Chess and many of his students have participated in world chess championship. His chess software for visually impaired is helping people in 18 countries.
A Blinding Road to Fill One’s Plate
In Trichy District, TN, blind people struggle to cover the 5 kilometers that lead to the ration shop. Being blind, or suffering from any form of disability, means that simple, daily acts are likely to turn into an ordeal. Everyday movements performed without much thought by a non-disabled person, are laden with obstacles for a blind person. Such is the case for the blind community living in Gandhi Nagar, Trichy District, in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
World report on disability
The first ever World report on disability, produced jointly by WHO and the World Bank, suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability. People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities.
Some tips for traveling with a disability
If you are planning on traveling with your family then you must keep some safety travel tips in your mind. Some important and safety travel tips that a traveler must keep in mind while traveling to India are: Before incoming to a tourist destination in India, a traveler must be aware of the all local laws and customs prevailing in that region. This will help the traveler to enjoy a confusion free vacation. To enjoy a irritate free vacation in India, it is important to always keep in touch with your contacts back home and in India and regularly informed them about your location and activities.
I am not disabled, just a double amputee – New Zealander Mark Inglis
Many people have scaled Everest, but what makes Inglis’s feat exceptional is that both his legs were amputated because of a frost-bite while climbing Mount Cook in New Zealand in 1982, when he was 23.
Living life king size – Sai Prasad Vishwanathan
Sai Prasad Vishwanathan took the phrase ‘nothing is impossible’ too literally! He fought against all odds — despite being thrown out of school once because of his physical disability — to get a research scholarship for an MS degree at the University of Wisconsin (USA), a gold medal for academic excellence, and job offers from three top MNCs, later culminating in an admission to the Indian School of Business (ISB). He also holds the record of being India’s first disabled person to skydive from 14,000 feet.
Why can’t I be a doctor ? – Vanithi
Vanithi was born with no fingers on her left hand but that has never scuttled her quest for excellence. She always wanted to be a doctor and has the required marks to get a medical seat under the disability quota.But authorities have rejected her application as rules bar those with disabled upper arm from admission to medical courses while those with disabled lower limbs can be admitted.
Visually-impaired can now learn in regional languages
Text-To-Speech (TTS) synthesis system, this new software will hit the market in November. Sponsored by the Centre’s department of Information Technology, TTS is a screen-reading software application that identifies and interprets Indian language text being displayed on the screen. Unlike former screen-reading software such as Jobs Access With Speech (JAWS) that only reads English text on the screen, TTS can read Marathi, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam and Bengali.
Indian companies opens its doors to disabled people – ILO order
The India- based member- companies are TCS, Wipro, Infosys, MphasiS and Thomson Reuters. What’s more? of the 13 employers’ organisations to join the network, two are from India,they are Nasscom and the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry.