• Under current law the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department does not discriminate against people with disabilities who wish to hunt. (go.com)
  • We give people with disabilities other benefits, but if someone is using audiobooks extensively, that 20% is a huge amount of their income or household income. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • Visually impaired writer Caroline Butterwick considers how she and other people with disabilities can make the most of hiking, and her sense of belonging in the natural world. (readingsight.org.uk)
  • This study investigates how to exploit technologies for making society more inclusive by increasing the usability of artefacts that may be not accessible to people with disabilities. (ercim.eu)
  • New York must grow its labor force by maximizing underutilized labor such as young adults and persons with disabilities. (icarol.com)
  • What other technologies do you know for people with disabilities? (moblobi.com)
  • The document is adopted as the working document on an international instrument or limitations and exceptions for visually impaired persons, persons with print disabilities. (cis-india.org)
  • Many Member States in this room have signed and ratified the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. (cis-india.org)
  • The concerns of persons with print disabilities and the urgency for the treaty has been discussed for the last few decades. (cis-india.org)
  • Autonomous vehicles hold incredible promise for people with disabilities to enjoy the enormous freedom that most adults have to live spontaneously and to be independent travelers," Sheryl Gross-Glaser, director of the nonprofit Community Transportation Association of America, told VentureBeat. (smartcitieslibrary.com)
  • But just as we need to enable someone with a walker or wheelchair to enter and exit a vehicle, we need redundant technologies that serve people with auditory or visual impairments and technologies and designs that assist people with cognitive disabilities. (smartcitieslibrary.com)
  • An estimated 25.5 million people in the U.S. have disabilities that make traveling outside the home difficult, and they make fewer trips on average than those without disabilities, regardless of age, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation's 2017 National Household Travel Survey (NHTS). (smartcitieslibrary.com)
  • Seven out of 10 people surveyed in the NHTS said they reduce day-to-day travel because of their disabilities, and one-third of people who made zero trips said they stayed home because they're severely disabled or housebound. (smartcitieslibrary.com)
  • Perhaps unsurprisingly, people with disabilities are more likely to encounter obstacles with nearly every mode of transportation. (smartcitieslibrary.com)
  • But in the same breath, the report notes that these technologies increase the cost of vehicles, potentially putting them beyond the reach of the 51.4% of people age 18 to 64 with "travel-limiting" disabilities in households with annual incomes under $25,000. (smartcitieslibrary.com)
  • We empower people who are blind, DeafBlind, and blind with other disabilities by creating diverse, sustainable, and meaningful employment opportunities. (lhblind.org)
  • The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities obliges signatories to ensure access to assistive technology at an affordable cost. (who.int)
  • Assistive technology is required by a wide spectrum of the population including people with disabilities, the elderly and persons with chronic health conditions, as well as the broader population, all of whom will experience some form of temporary or permanent impairment or functional decline during the life course. (who.int)
  • Visually impaired people on low incomes are also often unable to afford the high up-front costs of assistive technology that can massively increase their independence. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • The cost of living crisis is affecting everyone but the impact is being felt to a greater extent by blind and partially sighted people due to unavoidable costs like assistive technology and support in the home. (readingsight.org.uk)
  • What is Assistive Technology and How Does it Benefit People? (envisionus.com)
  • For people who are blind or visually impaired, assistive technology tools can be life changing. (envisionus.com)
  • Terese Goren, Assistive Technology Specialist at Envision's Workforce Innovation Center , has been training people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired for many years and has observed how life-changing assistive technology can be for many. (envisionus.com)
  • It theoretically would also allow for a blind or visually impaired person to save up for more expensive assistive technology items without penalty. (blindbargains.com)
  • Assistive technology, a subset of health technology, refers to assistive products and related systems and services for people to maintain or improve functioning thereby promoting well-being. (who.int)
  • One of them is the smart cane that will make visually impaired people's lives easier. (moblobi.com)
  • Based on evidence from British and Swedish case studies on older people's perceptions of the aforementioned transport technologies, as well as on a Swedish case study of visually impaired people's perceptions, this article makes the case that technology is only one tool in a complex socio-technical system, and one which brings challenges. (hud.ac.uk)
  • Even if blind people have never seen the colour, by gathering information from other people's descriptions, sayings, books, etc. they have knowledge of what the colours symbolise. (lu.se)
  • For people with visual impairment, or with dyslexia or another learning difficulty that prevents them from being able to read the written word as easily as most people, the subject of this debate is an anomaly that I hope we can try to resolve. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • It helps people with visual impairments and dyslexia read the content on the screen - especially articles. (readingsight.org.uk)
  • If audio to text softwares were to have a target audience, it would be people with dyslexia and the visually impaired. (keenerliving.com)
  • The smart listening device is part of a Digital Reading Project for the Blind launched by China Disabled Persons' Federation in 2017. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • As part of the program, the government purchased 200,000 such devices and distributed them to the over 400 Braille libraries and barrier-free reading rooms nationwide for lending to the visually impaired. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • it is a place where braille books and other conveniences for the visually impaired are gathered. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • On the same floor, there is an experiential museum of the culture of the blind that exhibits the history of braille in China and the world, as well as the history of CBL, how the Chinese version of braille based on pinyin was invented and how the idea of building a library for the visually impaired came into being. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Screen readers are software programs that allow blind or visually impaired users to read the text that is displayed on the computer screen with a speech synthesizer or braille display. (envisionus.com)
  • Braille is the most famous access method, but only a tiny proportion of blind people can read Braille - some 2% in the UK. (webbie.org.uk)
  • Recent years have seen the wider adoption of audio recordings, but like Braille these suffer from a lack of immediacy - you want the news today, not to wait a week for it to be translated - and a blind user is usually reliant on sighted people, often volunteers, to produce the material. (webbie.org.uk)
  • Information in Braille and an audiovisual guide provide additional support for visually impaired people during the journey. (asianetnews.net)
  • We depend on a strong team of talented, driven, and compassionate people to help our organization grow and thrive. (chicagolighthouse.org)
  • To some extent, we'd agree we face big challenges, but we'd also say Manchester has a great deal to offer its older people, including the strength of its ambition to become a place where they can thrive. (who.int)
  • Dupree cites different elevations of pool decks, which create obstacles for visually impaired people who use a cane, and venues in which the acoustics make it difficult for teams to communicate when the crowd cheers. (perkinswill.com)
  • Sensor sends the signal, detects obstacles, and let person understand via vibrating a motor and buzzer. (slideshare.net)
  • In this paper, we propose a smart IoT-based mobile sensors unit that can be attached to an off-the-shelf cane, hereafter a smart cane, to facilitate independent movement for visually impaired people. (bvsalud.org)
  • Mobility of Visually Impaired People: Fundamentals and ICT Assistive Technologies, p.364. (wikipedia.org)
  • Summits will include discussions of hiring, retention and upward mobility of people who are visually impaired. (afb.org)
  • HOLON is pursuing the goal of allowing everyone to benefit equally from the freedoms offered by mobility. (asianetnews.net)
  • People with a significant functional impairment may live with depression due to isolation as a direct result of a lack of mobility options. (smartcitieslibrary.com)
  • On 18 March 2019, Google Doodle honoured him by creating a short animation of a person with a probing cane being moved over tactile bricks. (wikipedia.org)
  • WeWalk is a smart cane designed to make life easier for the visually impaired. (moblobi.com)
  • If you respond that the user does not need to move their hands away from the cane itself to perform the task, I would say that people will become easily distracted--it's no better than sighted people looking at the screens of their phones whilst they are walking. (applevis.com)
  • What's it like to navigate London's streets when you're visually impaired? (sustrans.org.uk)
  • This audio resource will be used to engage and educate a range of different audiences on how visually impaired people navigate our streets. (sustrans.org.uk)
  • Abstract - The primary goal is to assist the visually impaired men and women navigate greater accurately. (slideshare.net)
  • Globally, 285 million people are visually impaired, including 39 million people who are blind. (who.int)
  • Globally, an estimated 45 million people are blind and a further 135 million are visually impaired. (who.int)
  • Croydon Vision is a thriving community network of hundreds of blind and partially sighted people, and their families, from across south London. (sustrans.org.uk)
  • The bricks' bright color is visible to people with low vision and cognitive impairments. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our vision is to be recognized as the Center for Excellence for blind and visually impaired (B/VI) children and adults by promoting independence, empowerment, inclusion, and hope. (icarol.com)
  • In New York State alone, the population of working-age persons who report significant vision loss or blindness is 410,103, with the number of working-age B/VI persons between the transitioning ages (10-18) group and 18-64 years old group at 19,670 4 . (icarol.com)
  • Our benefits of helping the community with people who are visually impaired or have vision problems. (spacehive.com)
  • Many people with a significant visual impairment have some degree of residual vision. (webbie.org.uk)
  • This allows the user to control the computer interface directly, and is a good solution for people with gradually-degrading vision, especially those who are already familiar with their computer interface but are starting to have trouble seeing it. (webbie.org.uk)
  • While improved balance is a benefit of yoga in general, a 2015 study in the journal PLoS One found that for people with low vision, a course of Ashtanga-based yoga significantly improved their sense of balance and reduced their fall risk. (healthline.com)
  • This includes not only people born without sight, but also people who lose their vision as they age, and can continue to be valuable members of the workforce with the necessary accommodations. (afb.org)
  • Navigating around places is one of the biggest challenges that face visually impaired people, especially those with complete loss of vision. (bvsalud.org)
  • Many people with low vision already have an eye doctor who is treating them for an eye disease such as macular degeneration , glaucoma or retinitis pigmentosa . (allaboutvision.com)
  • If you are visually impaired due to one of these diseases or because of an eye injury or other problem, ask your eye care professional about magnifiers and other low vision devices that can help you read and function independently. (allaboutvision.com)
  • These organizations also may be able to help you obtain low vision aids for qualified individuals either free of charge or at reduced costs, depending on the person's visual condition and financial needs. (allaboutvision.com)
  • In particular, a portable, low-powered hand glove is designed that is cost effective and that imparting help to visually impaired folks to overcome their lack of vision. (slideshare.net)
  • I know some people will really want this product, but don't expect thousands of people with vision impairment to be pre-ordering this product. (applevis.com)
  • It presents a vision of Manchester as a place where older people are more empowered, healthy and happy. (who.int)
  • Inclusive planet is the world's largest social network for persons with visual impairment. (cis-india.org)
  • We face big challenges to help the world's poorest people and ensure that everyone sees benefits from economic growth. (worldbank.org)
  • The design teams included an accessibility expert (researcher), the Barbanera Calendar design teams, and visually impaired end users. (ercim.eu)
  • Beyond being just a product, WeWALK is a social platform and a movement which unites all blind people in the world, creates awareness in society, and fosters accessibility, social inclusion, more and equal participation in social life. (applevis.com)
  • Indoor mapping is an essential component of a responsible accessibility plan, especially for visually-impaired visitors, who require a reliable orientation tool to find specific stores. (mapsted.com)
  • The prevalence of hearing loss increases to 50% in people older than 75 years. (medscape.com)
  • Young people with insulin- dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) may have a higher prevalence of eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia, and adults with longstanding diabetes and major medical complications have a higher prevalence of symptoms of depression and anxiety. (cdc.gov)
  • We also identified demographic, psychosocial, and other work-related factors among participants who benefited most from the ergonom ic interventions such that they experienced a reduction in upper extremity, neck, low back pain or reduced risk of musculoskeletal disorders. (cdc.gov)
  • The Lighthouse of Broward is the only full-service 501(c)3 serving people with visual impairments in Broward County, Florida. (lhob.org)
  • The Capital Campaign Coordinator executes administrative support of capital campaign initiatives, internal events, major giving, and third-party events for the Lighthouse of Broward for the Blind & Visually Impaired (LHOB). (lhob.org)
  • The Chicago Lighthouse is a life-changing community of care for people who are blind, visually impaired, disabled, or Veterans. (chicagolighthouse.org)
  • The intent is to present innovative intervention ideas and strategies that can be used to reach audiences who are not benefitting from current health communication efforts. (cdc.gov)
  • For people like older adults, facing the prospect of losing the ability to drive due to aging-related illness is taking away freedom and hampering their independence. (smartcitieslibrary.com)
  • Many rely on benefits to try to achieve a fulfilling life. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • Blind people must therefore rely on themselves, so this paper proposes gloves that make it easier for them to do so.Blindness can be triggered with the aid of physiological, anatomical, or neurological dysfunctions. (slideshare.net)
  • Only one in four working age visually impaired people are in work. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • Work in partnership with us to tackle the challenges of congestion, air pollution, physical inactivity, and social inequality, by making it easier for people to walk and cycle. (sustrans.org.uk)
  • One of the guys we work with, who was born visually impaired, he said the best thing is, when there's a foul, he can choose if it was a foul. (independent.co.uk)
  • Seiichi Miyake (Japanese: 三宅 精一, Hepburn: Miyake Seiichi, 5 February 1926 - 10 July 1982) was a Japanese engineer and inventor best known for his work on tactile paving (or "Tenji bricks", "Tactile bricks/blocks") to aid the visually impaired at traffic crossings. (wikipedia.org)
  • With the help of these devices in the workplace, employees who are blind or visually impaired can work just as efficiently as someone who is typically sighted. (envisionus.com)
  • While we wait, Pat ourselves on the back and come back next time to further work on the text, the reality of the world is that many people are waiting to receive an education, access to employment, access to culture and participate in their communities. (cis-india.org)
  • Most of the work is done by minimum wage, nonunion, immigrant women in shops that employ fewer than 20 people. (cdc.gov)
  • A report being launched by national sight loss charity Thomas Pocklington Trust at Westminster on Wednesday 20th June found that state benefits, such as Personal Independence Payments, do not in most cases fully cover the additional cost of being visually impaired. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • To help people who are blind or visually impaired achieve their highest level of independence. (icarol.com)
  • Kimberley A. Minkel, NFTA Executive Director said, "The Videophones replace older TTY/Relay phone units with new, modern technology that enhances the communication experience and creates an improved level of independence for our hearing impaired customers. (nfta.com)
  • Benefit cuts, including the introduction of Universal Credit, seriously undermine existing support for disabled people on low incomes. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • These benefits have often been previously topped up by disability-related premiums in Employment and Support Allowance, but these are due to be discontinued under Universal Credit. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • Your support helps to give children access to the training and equipment they need to ride a bike safely - starting a cycle of good that can go on to benefit their health, education and future. (sustrans.org.uk)
  • It helps people understand how a visually impaired person feels, as they negotiate their way from the entrance to the exit by holding on to the walls for support. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Here at LOOK, our tailored peer-mentoring service connects VI young people with a trained VI mentor to offer advice, support and guidance on subjects such as school, Further & Higher Education, careers, opportunities and independent living, based on the mentor's own experiences. (look-uk.org)
  • The World Bank's support to Zambia is important because 58% of Zambia's 16.6 million people earn less than the international poverty line of $1.90 per day compared to 41% across Sub-Saharan Africa, and three quarters of the country's poorest citizens live in rural areas," said Ina Ruthenberg, World Bank Country Manager for Zambia. (worldbank.org)
  • Visually impaired humans can advantage from assistive gloves that facilitate motion and enable them to feature independently barring relying too closely on others. (slideshare.net)
  • The report ' Experiences of Living with Visual Impairment: Matching Income with Needs ' investigates the experiences of visually impaired people living at or below the Minimum Income Standard and the impact on their lives. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • One in 30 people in the country have visual impairment and our experience with football is you have about five or six people at any given match. (independent.co.uk)
  • Strong visual content on social media gives people a reason to follow, like, comment, and eventually buy from you. (hootsuite.com)
  • At BP, in addition to inclusive aspects like wider doors on phone booths to allow wheelchair access, the design team chose carpets with calming patterns to minimize disorientation for people whose brains process visual information differently. (perkinswill.com)
  • IN THE BOOK Syntolkning - Forskning och praktik , researchers, educators, visually impaired and blind persons, practising visual interpreters and government authority representatives write about audio description from their different perspectives. (lu.se)
  • Many people can benefit from the book: researchers, educators, visual interpreters and those who use their services, as well as event organisers, government authorities and special interest groups. (lu.se)
  • The money will be used to provide 14 of our Concerto 2 radios to people living with sight loss in the area. (blind.org.uk)
  • At the moment people with sight loss are severely under-represented. (independent.co.uk)
  • It's important that decision makers hear about how the cost of living crisis is affecting people with sight loss. (readingsight.org.uk)
  • Disability benefits have provided an essential lifeline, and reassessment causes anxiety and uncertainty among some of those we talked to. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • But time after time, we hear from people with lived experience of disability that urban spaces are not designed to meet their needs. (sustrans.org.uk)
  • The only thing I would like to add is that the international publishing community is very much interested and supports all methods and all ways that we can use to improve access for persons with print disability. (cis-india.org)
  • Because of their physical disability, the visually impaired face no shortage of challenges in their daily lives, seriously limiting their social circles and making it difficult for them to integrate into society. (edu.hk)
  • Parents will find special information about benefits available to children with a disability. (iu.edu)
  • Screen Magnification Systems are a way for people who are visually impaired to enlarge their screens. (envisionus.com)
  • There is a reading machine that can magnify letters for people who are not visually impaired but with eyesight so bad they cannot even read the largest E on the eye chart. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Moblobi is both a blog where people read posts and a resource of news and articles covering technology, social media, culture, life and more. (moblobi.com)
  • Comprising a group of local young people, iSee aims at creating a range of mobile apps, including iMenu, iMoney, and iNews, to enable the visually impaired to read restaurant menus, identify banknotes (and distinguish denominations), and even read news reports. (edu.hk)
  • Most of the eye diseases that affect people in the age group 50 years and older, such as cataract, can easily be treated. (who.int)
  • What diseases have people suffered and died from through history? (lu.se)
  • Litigation promotes the accountability of both government agencies and private actors, helps focus broader public attention on the injustices imposed on low-income people, reveals structural inequities, and can be an important part of broader campaigns to achieve economic justice. (nclej.org)
  • It also helps viewers who may have trouble reading written words as fast as the person in the video talks. (cyberlink.com)
  • This money will make a real difference to visually impaired people in Barrow-in-Furness and West Cumbria. (blind.org.uk)
  • It's part of our mission to make street design more inclusive and as designers and place-makers we have learnt so much from our many conversations with disabled people. (sustrans.org.uk)
  • It's really important that these spaces make people feel equal. (perkinswill.com)
  • We aim to make people dream of moving to Manchester when they retire, and we are confident we can make this a great place to grow older. (who.int)
  • Salmonella can make people sick with diarrhea and fever, often with vomiting and abdominal cramps. (cdc.gov)
  • This way, people who don't speak Spanish will also be able to consume it as English is the most common language in the world. (metatags.org)
  • Sep 30, 2016 WIPO Director General Francis Gurry welcomed the entry into force of the Marrakesh Treaty which can now begin boosting the number of specially adapted texts for the benefit of blind and otherwise print-disabled people around the world. (wipo.int)
  • That applies to the world of the visually impaired, too. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • On behalf of the 285 million people in the world from 190 countries, 90 percent living in developing countries that I represent here today, this is more than frustrating. (cis-india.org)
  • When people are demanding their basic rights, no power in the world is strong enough to stop them getting what they want. (cis-india.org)
  • Visually impaired people face many challenges that limit their ability to perform daily tasks and interact with the surrounding world. (bvsalud.org)
  • However, the need persists to ensure that men and women benefit equally from eye care services all across the world. (who.int)
  • Without equitable access to quality, affordable eye-care, people in many remote parts of the world remain blinded by cataracts. (who.int)
  • It is an exciting area which reveals the link between language and thought: how people perceive the world, interpret and understand what others say, and imagine objects and events. (lu.se)
  • A series of videos demonstrating the accessible technology blind and partially sighted people use to perform tasks in the workplace as well as their fully sighted colleagues. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • On the other hand, people who do not suffer from any hearing issues are also bound to appreciate more accessible content. (metatags.org)
  • However, to the best of the author's knowledge, a tangible augmented calendar accessible to blind and visually impaired people has not yet been described. (ercim.eu)
  • In the book Syntolkning - Forskning och praktik (Audio description - Research and practice), cognitive scientists provide in-depth knowledge of how society can become more accessible to those who are visually impaired. (lu.se)
  • Among these are the demographic changes that have swelled the numbers of the elderly in communities, gender inequity, with a disproportionate number of women suffering from avoidable blindness, the relatively low output from existing services (i.e. few people operated and cured), and the inadequacy of resources. (who.int)
  • Breast self-examination for visually impaired women. (cdc.gov)
  • Albright, P and Toy, K W "Breast self-examination for visually impaired women. (cdc.gov)
  • Most people acquire a conductive hearing loss with a narrow range of audibility, an inability to hear high-frequency sound, and difficulty in discriminating complex sounds. (medscape.com)
  • Finally, owners of sewing companies should consider providing such a task chair for their employees as a way of reducing pain and loss of trained workers due to impaired health. (cdc.gov)
  • More than 10% of people in the US have some degree of hearing loss that compromises their. (msdmanuals.com)
  • We wanted to find a way to amplify voices of lived experience, so that many more people could benefit from listening to them. (sustrans.org.uk)
  • Texas would be following the lead of Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin in allowing visually impaired hunters special privileges. (go.com)
  • We put special emphasis on making people feel welcome. (moblobi.com)
  • It can't just be, 'Here's the section for people who need special accommodations,'" Dupree says. (perkinswill.com)
  • The ability for visually impaired people to experience sport without being restricted to specific areas is one of the key benefits of the technology. (independent.co.uk)
  • Of course, there are areas where this now, standard technology is used for the benefit of society. (moblobi.com)
  • Besides, sighted people have taken to the Internet in their millions for booking holidays, researching family trees and countless other uses: blind people need the same opportunities, and the technology makes it possible. (webbie.org.uk)
  • Page 755 IoT Based Assistive Glove for Visually Impaired People Ms. P. Divya Jenifar1,Ms. V. Harinitha2, Ms. M.D. Harshini3,Ms. A. James Christiya4 1Assistant professor ,Department of Biomedical Engineering, Sri Shakthi Institute of Engineering and Technology, Tamilnadu, India. (slideshare.net)
  • cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) "Seiichi Miyake: Wie der Japaner Blinden das Leben erleichterte" [Seiichi Miyake: How a Japanese man made life easier for blind people]. (wikipedia.org)
  • Traditionally, blind people have had only limited means of accessing printed material. (webbie.org.uk)
  • And there is no better time for this huge revolution: the great majority of blind people in developed countries become so because of the effects of age. (webbie.org.uk)
  • To understand why, we need to examine how blind people access computers in the first place. (webbie.org.uk)
  • This is not, on the face of it, a usable environment for blind people, but use it they must. (webbie.org.uk)
  • People around blind people need to be near them so they won't suffer injuries. (slideshare.net)
  • The training and coordination of guide dogs with blind people is a difficult task, and the results are minimal. (slideshare.net)
  • blind people will be able to control their smartphones via WeWALK's touchpad and be able to receive turn-by-turn Google Maps navigation via WeWALK. (applevis.com)
  • In addition, with our "audio description in movie theatres" project, blind people are able to get audio description for over 100 movies by using their smartphones in their preferred choice of theatre. (applevis.com)
  • If your response is that smartphone touchscreens can be difficult for some blind people to use, I respond that there are already inexpensive secondary devices on the market that can replicate a VoiceOver user's experience of using a touchscreen by using a physical keypad to control the device. (applevis.com)
  • Traditionally, people used to log their mileage on paper and switched to Excel spreadsheets, but now many more mileage tracking apps are available. (keenerliving.com)
  • By making good use of their social service experience and social network, the duo have promoted a series of iSee mobile apps tailor-made for the visually impaired. (edu.hk)
  • Our apps are really useful to visually-impaired people. (edu.hk)
  • This paper shares the experience of designing an inclusive paper-based calendar conceived in codesign sessions with blind and visually impaired users. (ercim.eu)
  • five blind users, two visually impaired users. (ercim.eu)
  • The research results can be directly applied in audio description practice, and thereby benefit the users. (lu.se)
  • The proposed benefits cuts are likely to seriously impact the quality of life for many visually impaired people. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • 1. INTRODUCTION Being blind is not something people experience for a short time, it's something people experience every second,every minute, and every day of their life. (slideshare.net)
  • It's aimed at anyone interested in improving life for older citizens: policy- makers, age-sector staff, academics, and of course, older people themselves. (who.int)
  • It enables people with functioning difficulties to lead healthy, productive, independent and dignified lives, participating in education, labour market and social life. (who.int)
  • What in the education have you benefited most from in working life? (lu.se)
  • We're currently looking for people to offer skills and time to develop our project! (spacehive.com)
  • LUSAKA, March 5, 2019 - To ensure the country's poorest citizens benefit from increased economic growth, the new Country Partnership Framework for Zambia (CPF 2019-2023) prioritizes reducing poverty in rural areas and expanding jobs and opportunities. (worldbank.org)
  • The home care among elderly persons 65 years and over. (cdc.gov)
  • Infants, elderly persons, and those with weakened immune systems are more likely than others to develop severe illness. (cdc.gov)
  • Elderly persons who have non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) and other symptomatic medical conditions may also have a higher risk of developing psychological problems. (cdc.gov)
  • The biggest, most important benefit of video transcription for YouTube is the reach it gives you. (metatags.org)
  • And with so much content out there, it's important for brands to stand out visually. (hootsuite.com)
  • Unlike in other museums, at CBL visitors can touch almost every exhibit, because that's an important way for the visually impaired to understand things. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Along with the benefits of backyard chickens and other poultry, it is important to consider the risk of illness, especially for children, which can result from handling live poultry or anything in the area where they live and roam. (cdc.gov)
  • Research undertaken by the Centre for Research in Social Policy (CRSP) at Loughborough University identified the minimum income needed by visually impaired people to achieve an acceptable standard of living compared to benefit levels. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • But now it comes with more style options, so people who need it can listen to more natural speech while engaging with video and audio content on social media. (cyberlink.com)
  • Most people don't have the money to hire a voice actor, and they may feel uncomfortable about sharing their own voice on social media. (cyberlink.com)
  • Awardees also benefit from Social Entrepreneurs Ireland's alumni network and events. (siliconrepublic.com)
  • To most people, social service is usually associated with community care actions such as volunteering or paying visits to elderly homes. (edu.hk)
  • The authors also suggest that although vulnerable populations are not homogeneous when expressing attitudes towards transport technologies, their assessment criteria tend to be 'pro-social' as they usually consider that the societal benefits outweigh the personal benefits. (hud.ac.uk)
  • Audio description allows people who are visually impaired to have, for instance, a joint evening in front of the TV when Eurovision is showing, perhaps a walk around the city, or the opportunity, in some other way, to actively participate in a social context. (lu.se)
  • Long-term care can be viewed as a discharges program of health, personal care, and social services delivered over time to Introduction setting, and people of any age might persons who have lost or never acquired experience some degree of functional some degree of functional capacity (2). (cdc.gov)
  • Participants in the study voiced strong anxiety about the prospect of cuts to services and their benefits being reassessed, and the uncertainty that this brings to their lives. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • The benefits to having a Videophone in place are that hearing impaired persons have equal access to phone services, without having to depend on someone for assistance. (nfta.com)
  • In this respect, a study recently published by WHO finds that governments can add thousands of millions of dollars to the global economy by investing in improving eye care services through eye examinations and providing eye glasses to people who need them. (who.int)
  • D aim that will require major changes to services for older people - but it's one that we're determined to achieve. (who.int)
  • That includes residents, public sector agencies, voluntary organisations, charities, and private companies who deliver services to older people. (who.int)
  • Two years later, on 18 March 1967, Okayama City (western Japan) was the first place to install this invention for visually impaired people. (wikipedia.org)
  • In case of any emergency situation, the person can ship the contemporary place to his/her guardian through GPS Module through press down the push button. (slideshare.net)
  • One of the biggest changes to SSI benefits in decades is about to take place. (blindbargains.com)
  • It is estimated that about 30 million people in the US are exposed to injurious levels of noise on a daily basis. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Ten years later, thanks to its safety and navigation benefits, the use of tactile bricks became mandatory in the Japan National Railway. (wikipedia.org)
  • One thing that has surprised me over the years is that people who are visually impaired and blind are just as keen to know the colour of something as those who can see. (lu.se)
  • Anxiety disorders and other mental health challenges can also overlap, so a person may be affected by more than one challenge at any time. (abmp.com)
  • The evidence is growing that providing better eye health care can generate enormous economic benefits for countries and the global economy at large. (who.int)
  • But we also recognise that disabled people are underrepresented in conversations about our streets and that we must amplify their voices, not least through projects like this. (sustrans.org.uk)
  • Phil Ambler, Director of Evidence and Policy at Thomas Pocklington Trust, said: "We urge the government to ensure the benefit system effectively supports visually impaired people. (pocklington.org.uk)
  • On the fifth floor, there is a room exhibiting the latest technologies assisting the visually impaired. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • For example, if you create a video in English and put English subtitles on it, people in Asian countries whose first language isn't English but understand it will be able to understand the content with ease. (metatags.org)
  • There are also touchable teaching devices for the visually impaired to understand things better. (chinadaily.com.cn)
  • Transcribe your YouTube videos so that you can reach a wide variety of people in your audience group. (metatags.org)
  • We reach over 2,500 people who are blind or visually impaired in our community annually. (lhob.org)
  • Can people who have never had the sense of sight see things with their inner eye and create mental images? (lu.se)
  • Audio to Text Softwares - Who Will Most Likely Benefit From Them? (keenerliving.com)
  • In Sweden there are approximately 120 000 visually impaired people in need of audio description. (lu.se)
  • Audio description can include verbal narration of film, theatre or images, as a way to give those who are visually impaired a richer cultural experience. (lu.se)
  • The main task of audio description is to interpret what is seen but not said: environments, events, people, and their appearance. (lu.se)