• For deaf and hearing-impaired people, vibrating pillow pads can be provided (upon request and subject to availability). (puydufou.com)
  • One of the ways that people who are deaf or hard of hearing can best enjoy music is vibration. (festivaldemerida.es)
  • To get the attention of the person who is deaf, tap her on the shoulder or wave your hand. (sfcc.edu)
  • Because persons who are deaf cannot hear subtle changes in tone that may indicate sarcasm or seriousness, many will rely on your facial expressions, gestures, and body language to understand you. (sfcc.edu)
  • If a person who is deaf is with an interpreter, speak directly to the person who is deaf - not to the interpreter. (sfcc.edu)
  • This film was very respectful to people with disabilities whether it be the visually impaired or deaf mutes. (geeksofdoom.com)
  • Our sensory team provides services to people who: are visually impaired, are Deaf, have an acquired hearing loss, are deafblind - sometimes known as a dual sensory impairment. (devon.gov.uk)
  • In the past year, advocates for people with visual impairments have sued major corporations including Bank of America, H&R Block and Intuit, claiming that the companies' popular software and Web sites aren't compatible with the screen-reading technology they use to surf the Web. (w3.org)
  • It especially affects groups with disabilities, cognitive and sensory impairments, and autism spectrum disorders. (ccc.de)
  • If you're not sure where to start, look into tackling some of the most commonly experienced issues among people with visual impairments, according to accessiBe. (trusera.com)
  • They can also be visually unintuitive for people with impairments. (trusera.com)
  • However, several studies and reports on disabilities, visual and hearing impairments, ageing populations and the burden of noncommunicable diseases, mental health conditions and injuries as well as data from emergency contexts show limited access to appropriate, affordable and quality products. (who.int)
  • Older persons are disproportionately affected by sen- sory impairments. (cdc.gov)
  • Hearing impairments were up only 12.8 percent of the U.S. population, they widespread--one-third of all persons 70 years of age account for roughly 37 percent of all hearing-im- and older were hearing paired individuals and 30 percent of all visually- impaired, a level that has impaired individuals. (cdc.gov)
  • Orientation and Mobility lesson plans for teachers of visually impaired persons. (visionsvcb.org)
  • Offer help to a person with a mobility disability, but wait until it is accepted before giving it. (sfcc.edu)
  • Offer to carry food, notebooks, and large handouts for people who have a mobility disability. (sfcc.edu)
  • Always remember that people with mobility disabilities cannot do things as quickly as people who do not have those disabilities. (sfcc.edu)
  • A fantastic tabletop CD Boom Box player is now available for all users including the visually impaired, blind and people who have limited mobility. (enablingdevices.com)
  • The Brazilian federal laws no. 10.048, from November 8 of 2000, and no. 10.098, from December 19 of 2000, which establish general guidelines and basic criteria for accessibility promotion for people with disabilities or reduced mobility, claims that visual impairment is considered blindness when visual accuracy is equal or smaller than 0.05º (degrees) at the best eye, with the best optical correction. (bvsalud.org)
  • This was the first in a series of eight images (PHIL 9088-9095) revealing the exhibits inside the U.S. National Building Museum, all of which could be touched by all visitors, including adults, children, and those who were mobility, or visually impaired. (cdc.gov)
  • On Aug. 9, Sally Johnston, the President of Disabled in Action of Greater Syracuse sent a warning letter to Centro Executive Director Frank Kobliski, detailing the ways in which the new Transit Hub discriminates against the elderly and people with disabilities. (answercoalition.org)
  • New material includes instructional considerations when working with elderly persons and people with multiple disabilities. (visionsvcb.org)
  • 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)
  • Visual impairment is an important cause of activity limitation and disability among the elderly. (cdc.gov)
  • Approximately 1.8 million noninstitutionalized elderly report some difficulty with basic activities such as bathing, dressing, and walking around the house, in part because they are visually impaired. (cdc.gov)
  • The design of products and environments often places people in compartments such as 'man', 'woman', 'person with a disability', 'person without a disability', 'children', 'elderly', and so on. (lu.se)
  • Purpose: To find out the level of eye care service utilization and its determinants among the elderly visually impaired populations while visiting ophthalmic outreach locations in North Western Ethiopia, 2021. (bvsalud.org)
  • GENEVA - Journalists wishing to cover an international conference to conclude a treaty to facilitate access to published works by visually impaired persons and persons with print disabilities are invited to apply for media accreditation. (ag-ip-news.com)
  • While some countries have domestic legislation that grants limitations and exceptions for use of copyrighted works by visually impaired and people with print disabilities, there is a legal vacuum at the international level. (ag-ip-news.com)
  • WIPO's General Assembly decided that discussions relating to a future treaty to benefit visually impaired and people with print disabilities are sufficiently advanced and mature to convene a diplomatic conference. (ag-ip-news.com)
  • Dec 18, 2012 Meeting in extraordinary session, the WIPO General Assembly took a landmark decision today to convene a diplomatic conference in 2013 to complete negotiations on a pact to improve access to copyrighted works for the many visually impaired and people with print disabilities around the world. (wipo.int)
  • 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)
  • The concerns of persons with print disabilities and the urgency for the treaty has been discussed for the last few decades. (cis-india.org)
  • 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)
  • Breakthrough innovation specialist Cambridge Consultants has partnered with Waymap to create a unique smartphone service that helps visually impaired people to navigate through complex indoor spaces, such as public transport hubs. (cambridgeconsultants.com)
  • Inclusive planet is the world's largest social network for persons with visual impairment. (cis-india.org)
  • NALSVI was established in 1991 and through its various members is able to reach over 350,000 blind and partially sighted people. (wikipedia.org)
  • For partially sighted and blind people, remote controls with large keys can be provided (upon request and subject to availability). (puydufou.com)
  • 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)
  • From how to plan new walking routes, to how different surfaces and colours affect partially sighted people, plus the problem of bins on pavements. (sustrans.org.uk)
  • For the blind and visually impaired, tactile and audible cues are essential. (streetsblog.org)
  • Tactile tours on the architecture of 21er Haus and the sculptures of Fritz Wotrub for blind and visually impaired people. (wien.info)
  • It is important that for each QR code, the tactile dot is always inserted in the same position in order to allow the blind person to know where exactly the QR code is located (see Fig.2). (ercim.eu)
  • Accessibility in email means making sure that everyone can read your emails, including people who use assistive technology. (epsilon.com)
  • Screen readers, which are often used by people who are visually impaired, are one type of assistive technology. (epsilon.com)
  • Use of open-source assistive technologies, such as social and emotional AI & terminology related to neurodivergent individuals can meet the needs of those with cognitive disabilities. (ccc.de)
  • In this talk, I will build on this success to talk about accessibility technology, for example, how specific assistive technologies, such as social and emotional AI used for learning purposes and the use terminology related to neurodivergent individuals can meet the needs of those with cognitive disabilities or autism-related conditions. (ccc.de)
  • The project focused on future trends in assistive technologies (ATs) and their impact on disabled people, specifically on their learning and working environment and their inclusion into society. (fraunhofer.de)
  • Our work will empower members of the European Parliament for knowledge-based decision making on assistive technologies for people with disabilities and aid legislative backcasting and sense-making. (fraunhofer.de)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • To conclude, I must remind those opposing the treaty of the story of Marie Antoinnette who is reported to have said let them eat cake when the hungry people begged for food outside the gates. (cis-india.org)
  • Visionary, formerly known as the National Association of Local Societies for Visually Impaired People (NALSVI), based in Doncaster, England, is the umbrella organization serving over 120 UK Charities supporting local people with a visual impairment. (wikipedia.org)
  • People with different kinds of disabilities (physical and mental disabilities, along with visual and hearing disabilities) and different essential needs came together to fight for a common cause. (wikipedia.org)
  • Experience has shown us that visually impaired young people are best supported by those that have personal experiences of living with a visual impairment. (look-uk.org)
  • 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)
  • That was the reality for millions of people with visual disabilities until Facebook decided to do something about it. (deque.com)
  • Mounir: We are starting a new program for people with disabilities in my city, and we're working on advocating for laws that would improve the life of people with disabilities, especially visual disabilities, on other fronts. (miusa.org)
  • Although the number of visual impaired people is representative of Brazilian population few studies in literature have evaluated the oral health quality in this individual group. (bvsalud.org)
  • Sensory development lesson plans for the instruction of persons who are blind or visually impaired. (visionsvcb.org)
  • The 69th edition of the Mérida Festival will be fully accessible to people with sensory diversity, run by the company Audiosigno, with the collaboration of Fundación CB and Ibercaja. (festivaldemerida.es)
  • A visually impaired person needs a health professional licensed to stimulate the other sensory senses, such as touch, taste and hearing, so that the communication between the professional and patient is positive and the patient does not exhibit social relationship difficulties 3,11 . (bvsalud.org)
  • More than 10% of people in the US have some degree of hearing loss that compromises their daily communication, making it the most common sensory disorder. (msdmanuals.com)
  • It was not until 1990 that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed, legally prohibiting discrimination on account of disability, and mandating disability access in all buildings and public areas. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ten years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which forced corporations and governments to address the needs of people with disabilities in the physical world, advocates are focusing attention on the barriers in the virtual world. (w3.org)
  • In some instances, the new hub, set to open Sept. 4, is not even in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. (answercoalition.org)
  • The signs above each of the 3 platform bays do not use the high contrast color combinations (e.g., light print on a dark background) required in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. (answercoalition.org)
  • The Americans with Disabilities Act has been around since 1990, and yet there is still a huge education and employment need. (pursuethepassion.com)
  • I will start by declaring an interest: as well as being a former disabilities Minister , I am also dyslexic. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • We are not just talking about people who are visually impaired or who are dyslexic, like myself. (theyworkforyou.com)
  • Even with occlusion, dyslexia persists on testing and most dyslexic patients do not demonstrate impaired oculomotor control. (medscape.com)
  • [4] Disability activists are working to break institutional, physical, and societal barriers that prevent people with disabilities from living their lives like other citizens. (wikipedia.org)
  • When barriers are removed, people with disabilities can be independent and equal in society. (wikipedia.org)
  • These barriers include low expectations of people with disabilities. (wikipedia.org)
  • This is the term coined to describe all of the excuses and self-imposed barriers and limitations many disabled people must confront, if they are to find their way in the world. (pursuethepassion.com)
  • As with other areas of WAI work, these guidelines are an outcome of a collaboration of industry, disability organizations, accessibility research centers and governments working together to identify consensus solutions for barriers that people with disabilities encounter on the Web. (w3.org)
  • Persons with disabilities (PwDs) face barriers in accessing sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services due to lack of knowledge and awareness , stigma and discrimination, and inadequate service provision . (bvsalud.org)
  • People with disability often encounter barriers in access sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services. (bvsalud.org)
  • crimes involving violence or threats of violence targeting members of racial minorities, human rights and environmental activists, indigenous peoples and other traditional populations, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or intersex persons. (state.gov)
  • In Fort Worth, Texas, Dr. Patricia Mathes and her team are working to learn the best way to teach reading to children with cognitive disabilities, a population that is often in danger of being academically ignored. (readingrockets.org)
  • Under current law the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department does not discriminate against people with disabilities who wish to hunt. (go.com)
  • I am interested in how it is possible to create designs that do not discriminate against people and that do not lead to inequality and stigma. (lu.se)
  • ANSWER Syracuse stands ready to fight back against Centro for full accessibility for people with disabilities and for the rights of all people to use the new Transit Hub. (answercoalition.org)
  • They're also closely related to my profession because they work on accessibility for people with disabilities. (miusa.org)
  • Before the disability rights movement, President Franklin D. Roosevelt 's refusal to be publicized in a position of vulnerability demonstrated and symbolized the existing stigma surrounding disabilities. (wikipedia.org)
  • There is a huge stigma associated with people with disabilities in India. (serve.ie)
  • For example, a common barrier that individuals with disabilities face deals with employment. (wikipedia.org)
  • Specifically, employers are often unwilling or unable to provide the necessary accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to effectively carry out their job functions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Disability in the United States was viewed as a personal issue, and not many political or governmental organizations existed to support individuals in these groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • The signs are 14 feet above the platforms and impossible for individuals who are visually impaired to see. (answercoalition.org)
  • Objective: To evaluate and determine Simplified Oral Hygiene Index (OHI-S) in visually impaired individuals, as well as to provide information to promote oral health, to verify the effectiveness of educational activities for index change and to promote the social inclusion of visually impaired people. (bvsalud.org)
  • Gradually, this situation has been changing through professionals aiming to include these individuals within the society, inserting them in programs of health attention and creating a differentiated service according to the difficulties of each person 6 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Visually impaired individuals exhibited a greater likelihood of awareness compared to those with physical disabilities. (bvsalud.org)
  • Many people rely on screen readers and keyboard navigation to find their way around websites. (trusera.com)
  • Mounir Kheirallah, a Legislative Fellow from Morocco, visited Casablanca's sister city of Chicago to observe how NGOs advocate for people with disabilities. (miusa.org)
  • The goal is to bring people from Morocco and around the world to the USA for a month to visit American NGOs, see how they work, and then to go back to the countries to apply what is learned. (miusa.org)
  • Mounir: By visiting the different organizations and NGOs, I learned different ways that they advocate for the rights of people with disabilities, such as through awareness campaigns. (miusa.org)
  • While her country is being ripped to pieces she wanted to do something and found that she trusted the people that were in the workshops, the NGOs institutions and the system in Sweden. (lu.se)
  • National Association of Local Societies for Visually Impaired People. (wikipedia.org)
  • Shocking attitudes stem from religious beliefs and societies fear, leaving those with a disability to be victims of discrimination and social exclusion. (serve.ie)
  • Disability activists were told by Betty Petrie, of Centro, that there would be a pole at each bus bay with a digital display of the name and route number. (answercoalition.org)
  • Texas is pushing hard to adopt electronic textbooks in public schools, for example, but they will be of little value if students with disabilities cannot use them. (w3.org)
  • At first, faculty and staff members may feel uncomfortable when interacting with students with disabilities. (sfcc.edu)
  • The following section outlines effective ways to interact and communicate with students with disabilities. (sfcc.edu)
  • vision problems do not cause primary dyslexia or learning disabilities. (medscape.com)
  • If you are visually impaired, have dyslexia or other reading difficulties so that you cannot read printed books, you have the opportunity to borrow the literature you need as audiobooks. (lu.se)
  • TorTalk is a software for computers which will read all text on the screen for people with dyslexia and anyone who prefers to listen to text. (lu.se)
  • It is, without legislation such as The Equal Opportunities and Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 1995 that these children attend school, but education needs to be accessible for all. (serve.ie)
  • Founded in 1902, San Francisco's LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired promotes the independence, equality and self-reliance of people who are blind or have low vision. (lighthouse-sf.org)
  • Wayfinding on public transit can be challenging enough for people with 20/20 vision. (streetsblog.org)
  • The Waymap team then creates a detailed map of the venue, rich in features that are important to those with impaired vision. (cambridgeconsultants.com)
  • As many people with sight loss have some useful vision, wearing a high visibility jacket or tabard may be helpful for many customers with sight loss as it could make it easier for them to differentiate you from others, especially in a crowded bus station. (guidedogs.org.uk)
  • At the bus stop pull right up to the kerb to help vision impaired passengers avoid tripping. (guidedogs.org.uk)
  • This will also help the vision impaired passenger to know that they have your attention. (guidedogs.org.uk)
  • Bus drivers will always prioritise the safety of all their passengers, but it is essential that vision impaired passengers are able to get off the bus at the correct stop. (guidedogs.org.uk)
  • It can be frustrating and disorientating for a vision impaired passenger to miss their bus stop. (guidedogs.org.uk)
  • This will positively affect the tone of your voice and provide extra information to the person who is vision impaired. (guidedogs.org.uk)
  • Our self-study tapes are designed for use by persons experiencing vision loss or who are without sight.Created by a group of prominent rehabilitation experts, these audio books were updated in the 90's. (visionsvcb.org)
  • Although there are some vision problems that can interfere with the development of vision, the neurodevelopmental issues surrounding learning disabilities generally involve other areas of neural processing. (medscape.com)
  • The ultimate mission is to provide independence, confidence and freedom of travel to millions of blind and visually impaired people. (cambridgeconsultants.com)
  • Persons diagnosed as having significantly lower than average intelligence and considerable problems in adapting to everyday life or lacking independence in regard to activities of daily living. (bvsalud.org)
  • They charged that Internet services such as online shopping, banking and tax preparation constitute public accommodations that, under the ADA, have to be as accessible to people with disabilities as the public library or the mall. (w3.org)
  • Tim Fowler, Head of Wireless and Digital Services at Cambridge Consultants, said "We are delighted to support Waymap in their ambition to improve the lives of so many blind and visually impaired people. (cambridgeconsultants.com)
  • advisor to Department of Aging and Disability Services. (ct.gov)
  • a) There is established an Advisory Board for Persons Who are Blind or Visually Impaired that shall serve as an advisor to the Department of Rehabilitation Services in fulfilling its responsibilities in providing services to persons who are blind or visually impaired in the state. (ct.gov)
  • A mixed-methods study of the awareness and functionality of sexual and reproductive health services among persons with disability in Ghana. (bvsalud.org)
  • Despite the high levels of SRH knowledge and awareness among PwDs, there are significant gaps and challenges related to disability type, age group , misconceptions, beliefs , and service non-functionality that limit the utility of SRH services. (bvsalud.org)
  • This study sought to assess the extent of SRH knowledge and awareness among persons with disabilities (PwDs) in Ghana and to investigate their perceptions of the functionality of SRH services. (bvsalud.org)
  • Working closely with the disability movement, he focuses on people's lived perspectives and how human and artefactual aspects of products, services, and environments can be designed to support people in fulfilling their needs, wishes, and dreams. (lu.se)
  • We seek people who have degrees in ENGINEERING, PHYSICAL SCIENCE, BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT/SCIENCE and ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES, who would like an opportunity to gain professional workforce experience in our San Francisco, California Regional Office. (lighthouse-sf.org)
  • Fighting for access According to a study released in March by researchers at the University of California-San Francisco, less than 10 percent of people with disabilities regularly use the Internet, versus nearly 40 percent of people with no disabilities. (w3.org)
  • From the many people we had spoken to in India, they all spoke of the difficulties of living in India with a disability. (serve.ie)
  • It enables people with functioning difficulties to lead healthy, productive, independent and dignified lives, participating in education, labour market and social life. (who.int)
  • [9] While this was the beginning of activism and seeking support for these groups, children with disabilities were largely hidden by their parents out of fear of forced rehabilitation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Jyothi Seva is a school and home for children who are blind and visually impaired, and provides children with love, protection, shelter and the right to an education. (serve.ie)
  • Some of the children that attend Jyothi Seva had been abandoned from their family and left on the street due to their disability. (serve.ie)
  • Through the likes of government policies children with a disability uphold rights to be educated where best fits among those more able. (serve.ie)
  • However in India, it is much more difficult for children with disabilities to attend school. (serve.ie)
  • For generations, too many people assumed that children with disabilities couldn't learn to read - so they never gave them a chance. (readingrockets.org)
  • Surina interacts with visually impaired children during the training class in a library for people with disabilities in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Dec. 3, 2019. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Soon, the world will have more older people than children and more people of very old age than ever before. (who.int)
  • Key areas of focus included the health of women before, during and after pregnancy and the health of the newborn, children, adolescents and older people. (who.int)
  • Learning disabilities, which include reading disabilities, are frequently diagnosed in children. (medscape.com)
  • American disability rights have evolved significantly over the past century. (wikipedia.org)
  • Understanding this fatigue level can help marketers understand how often they should be messaging this person and let them tailor campaigns accordingly. (epsilon.com)
  • The social model of disability suggests disability is caused by the way society is organized, rather than by a person's impairment. (wikipedia.org)
  • This happens when one focuses completely on the disability and not on the individual as a person, thereby creating an attitudinal barrier. (sfcc.edu)
  • But that doesn't always make them useful to folks like Guido Corona, because much of the Internet -- which has become so important in American life that it increasingly separates the haves from the have-nots -- remains inaccessible to people with disabilities. (w3.org)
  • Inaccessible information is just as much of a barrier as a set of steps is to a person in a wheelchair. (w3.org)
  • Sydney Olympics organizers were taken to court for having an inaccessible Website, which is in violation of the Australian Disability Discrimination Act of 1992, and lost the case. (independentliving.org)
  • Just like anyone else, people with sight loss will have personal preferences in how they receive support so ensure that you ask them what help they would like. (guidedogs.org.uk)
  • As a developer and social inclusion advocate, I developed an app to support the hearing and visually impaired people to access education and training. (ccc.de)
  • Surina, an anchorwoman with Inner Mongolia TV station, started her program Light of the Heart in 2017 aiming to support the visually impaired people to know more about the world by showing and describing movies for them. (xinhuanet.com)
  • It is a communication support system for blind or visually impaired people. (festivaldemerida.es)
  • This means a website must also be usable and accessible by people with disabilities. (pluralsight.com)
  • Let's focus on five such building blocks, and see how they already contribute to making the experience of people online more accessible. (deque.com)
  • Making your site as accessible as possible to people with disabilities is more important than ever before. (trusera.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Many Member States in this room have signed and ratified the convention on the rights of persons with disabilities. (cis-india.org)
  • The majority of older people live in low- or middle-income countries. (who.int)
  • The number of people aged 80 years or older, for example, will have almost quadrupled to 395 million between 2000 and 2050. (who.int)
  • The prevalence of hearing loss increases to 50% in people older than 75 years. (medscape.com)
  • made by persons 65 years of age and older. (cdc.gov)
  • Methods: An ophthalmic outreach-based cross-sectional study was conducted on 852 visually impaired older people. (bvsalud.org)
  • Instead, be confident and jump on the first opportunity to see how people live in other parts of the world, and how they can rely on themselves. (miusa.org)
  • When speaking with a person who uses a wheelchair or a person who uses crutches, place yourself at eye level in front of the person in order to facilitate the conversation. (sfcc.edu)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Paige does not let her disability shrink her world. (gofundme.com)
  • It's part of a two-way exchange between American fellows and people around the world to develop long-term partnerships between the countries. (miusa.org)
  • I was able to teach them that even in other parts of the world, life for people with disabilities is improving, and they were very happy about that. (miusa.org)
  • 1. The world will have more people who live to see their 80s or 90s than ever before . (who.int)
  • They are "twice exceptional," which means they are both intellectually gifted and struggling to remediate an identified learning disability. (readingrockets.org)
  • 95% CI = 1.21, 4.44] awareness , with the visually impaired having higher odds than the physically disabled . (bvsalud.org)
  • Additionally, the type of disability played a significant role in predicting awareness of STIs and HIV / AIDS . (bvsalud.org)
  • Therefore, it is important to actively work with knowledge and awareness of socially sustainable design that brings people together and enriches society. (lu.se)
  • DBS Bank India Limited: Doorstep Banking DBIL shall offer Doorstep banking (DSB) for Branch Banking Customers certain customer segments including Senior Citizens of more than 70 years of age and differently abled or infirm persons (having medically certified chronic illness or disability) including those who are visually impaired. (dbs.com)
  • And what this means for accessibility and inclusion of people with disabilities in the digital space. (deque.com)
  • 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)
  • Instead, I found fortune in my misfortune, inspiration from people in similar and more challenging situations all around me, and began pursuing alternative ways to access the outdoors. (allmediascotland.com)
  • Does your visually impaired child dread their PE lessons in mainstream school, is it hard for them to access clubs in the community and be fully included? (look-uk.org)
  • How can we push for disability-centred policy and ethial open-source coding as a way of stopping to perpetuate social exclusion? (ccc.de)
  • We've always said that blind people can be competitive. (w3.org)
  • Texas Rep. Edmund Kuempel is introducing legislation to allow blind people to hunt live animals using laser sights. (go.com)
  • Dr Tom Pey, RSBC Chief Executive and Waymap Chairman , said: "It's fabulous that my earliest experimentation during the noughties, with the late Professor Peter Barker, using RFID and laptops to guide blind people along Oxford Street, has come to fruition in smartphone technology from Waymap that everyone can use. (cambridgeconsultants.com)
  • I also learned some ways that people with disabilities, including blind people, live independently. (miusa.org)
  • This work discusses the integration of blind people in the labor market and it aims to contribute to the knowledge of the integration process and to dwell on the organizational policies and practices capable of promoting it. (bvsalud.org)
  • Semi-structured interviews were conducted: eight with blind people integrated in the labor market and five with their supervisors. (bvsalud.org)
  • The interviewees consider that the integration of blind people in the labor market is positive. (bvsalud.org)