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.
This is the story of Swarnalakshmi, a blind lady, the only daughter in her traditional Indian family. Swarnalakshmi lost her vision all of a sudden due to brain tumor 15 days before she was supposed to get married. In her story she tells about what helped her to restart her life and become an independent lady with a golden glow in her eyes.
This is a story of Vishal Jain, a visually impaired MBA student at IIM Lucknow, India. Coming from a small town in Karnataka state, Vishal had to stop his studies after 9th standrd due to deterioration of his eyesight and lack of awareness to handle it. However his inner urge to learn brought Vishal to Bangalore to learn to operate the computer and continue his studies.
The iGlasses™ Ultrasonic Mobility Aid is a head-mounted device which enables more informed, confident, and efficient pedestrian travel. Objects in your path are detected by the ultrasonic sensors and communicated via gentle vibrations. As obstacles get nearer the frequency of the vibration will increase. The device is intended as a secondary mobility device to complement the traditional long cane or guide dog.
We translated them here, adding some more to contribute to their spread and to stimulate the sharing of other valuable suggestions. Sometimes the actions taken by a person with retinitis pigmentosa or hearing loss or Usher are repeated so as to be automatic, but making the effort to transform them into words and communicate them to others, could help those who have never experienced some of the techniques and situations.
The Central Government exempts goods specified below, when imported into India by a handicapped or disabled person for his personal use, from the whole of the duty of customs and the additional duty subject to the condition that the importer produces to the Assistant Collector of Customs, at the time of importation, a certificate from the Civil Surgeon of the District, Medical Officer or the Administrative Medical Officer or the Director of Health Services of the concerned State or a Specialist in the concerned speciality attached to a Govt. Hospital or a recognised medical college to the effect that the importer suffers from the particular handicap or disability and that the imported goods in respect of which the exemption is claimed are essential to overcome the said handicap or disabilty.
concessions offered by the central government to the persons with disabilities , Travel concessions for the differently abled persons
Braille is difficult, but it’s not impossible to teach yourself. Here are my Top Ten Tips to help get you started. First, get yourself a good Braille instruction book. I like Just Enough to Know Better: A Braille Primer by Eileen Curran. Yes, it has a funny name, but it’s a really great book with lots of example exercises.
His disability would normally be a barrier that would make it almost impossible to be a successful trader. Ashish’s determination and extremely strong will have helped him overcome this barrier completely.
Deaf and blind people fall into a broader category known as sensory impaired persons. Sensory impairments of this type actually fall into three different Nivh typologies, those who have blindness, those who have deafness, and those who have both blindness and deafness known as the deaf-blind.