his section covers some of the general issues that people with disabilities face every day and also some areas that a person with a disability would expect a librarian to have some knowledge about when approached about library facilities and services.
It is important to maintain natural language when interacting with people with disabilities. Some common usages are encouraged by the World Health Organization. Useful short definitions are:
Children and adolescents account for a
disproportionate share of ocular injuries. The majority of these injuries are related to
unsupervised and dangerous activities.
These injuries can be devastating and a
significant cause of visual impairment in
most of these children.
When we look back in time we find that the beginnings of work for the disabled leading to better opportunities, more services and programmes were initiated in many cases either by the disabled themselves or by their families. Perhaps the best example of this is Louis Braille, the inventor of what is now come to […]
WE OFTEN hear about employment exchanges both in the public and private sectors offering jobs to normal people.Since, India is now on a take off stage on the world map on all fronts, therefore, it would be ideal if more and more employment exchanges exclusively for differently abled people, both in the public sector as […]
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,
Ever faced a problem in pressing multiple keys simultaneously? Is the sunlight glare obstructing you from viewing the screen content? Missed out on an audio alert while working in a noisy environment? Would you like to control the mouse via the keyboard? Microsoft Windows XP enables you to satisfy all the above. In Windows XP, […]
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.
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
Psychologists study the human mind and human behavior. Psychologists investigate the physical, cognitive, emotional, or social aspects of human behavior. Clinical psychologists often interview patients and give diagnostic tests.