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Chennai Vision Charitable Trust

Chennai Vision Charitable Trust

The Chennai Vision Charitable Trust was established as the Community Wing of Rajan Eye Care Hospital in the year 1996 to serve the neediest and the poorest of patients in the rural villages, who have no possibility of receiving quality ophthalmic service.

The Faculty of Disability Management and Special Education (FDMSE)

The Faculty of Disability Management and Special Education (FDMSE)

The aim of this FDMSE is to translate the declaration of Swami Vivekananda into action. With regard to proper education, he had said that all perfection and powers were already within each individual, and education was the means to make them manifest in the lives of individuals.

Tirupur School for the Deaf

Tirupur School for the Deaf

Tirupur school for the Deaf functions to enhance the quality of life for the hearing impaired members of the society who have special communication needs, through continuous special education, value based education and vocational programmes and services.

C.S.I. Rehabilitation Centre

C.S.I. Rehabilitation Centre

All the children come from very low economic background – children of single parents, widows, and destitute women or below poverty line. All services like education, uniforms, food, medical facilities transport, mobility aids, hearing aids and learning aids for the blind are provided free of cost.

Special education Professionals in India

Special education Professionals in India

We are looking forward to act as link between the service provider and the service bearer of which professionals are a much needed part. So here is a comprehensive list of professionals available in India.

Visually-impaired can now learn in regional languages

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.

Visually impaired student makes it to IIM

Visually impaired student makes it to IIM

The IIM dream, chased by many but realised by few. 26-year-old Suresh Reddy from IIM Calcutta belongs to the select club. He was 13 years old when he lost his vision. His parents asked him to quit studies, but Reddy fought on.

Overcoming employment challenges – Rajdeep

Overcoming employment challenges – Rajdeep

Getting a job that you really like is not a simple task for anyone. Then imagine what it is like for a visually impaired person? There are so many stereotypes about visually impaired people among the sighted community.

Break the bars of barriers with a smile on your face – Suprita gupta

Break the bars of barriers with a smile on your face – Suprita gupta

This is the story about Suprita Gupta, a young visually impaired girl from Jarkhand. Suprita left her home town and her family and came all the way to Bangalore to start living her own independent life. Suprita works at IBM and …but wait, let’s just listen to the story told by Suprita herself.