Infant Jesus Society for Education and Training for Hearing Impaired was started with seven students in the year 1997. The society is run by the Social Service Wing of Carmelite Sisters.
The students participate and excel in cultural , sports and other activities held at school and inter school levels.Be it drawing , music , kolam or even martial arts such as Silambuattam and Karate , the students leave their mark of excellence during public events.
Little Flower Convent Higher Secondary School for the Deaf is located at the heart of the city of Chennai. It was established in 1926 by the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and was recognized by the Government of Tamil Nadu in 1931. It was upgraded as a High School in 1968 and as a Higher Secondary School in 1980.
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).
The All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) here will continue to issue hearing disability certificates in prescribed formats following a direction from the office of the Director General of Health Services, Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.
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.
With the availability of better diagnostic facilities in India, there has been a steady rise in the detection of cases of Multiple Sclerosis (MS).
44-year-old Malini Chib was born with cerebral palsy. But she not only overcame the challenges that she faced but also took up the cause for the differently-abled by speaking out for their rights and the problems they face. A cause that finds reflection in her book, One Little Finger, that outlines the journey of her life and the odds she faced.