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Sense India has even gone beyond the classroom in spreading awareness about how deaf-blind students can be helped.

Delhi-based Inklude aims to make education inclusive, by making books that cater to both sighted and the non-sighted.

The Delhi Art Gallery runs a programme they call ‘Abhaas’, an initiative that focuses on providing a sensory experience through the use of audio and visual aids.

Visually impaired students can download the customised app on their smartphones and use it to conveniently access various parts of the campus.

In the Digital India of today, there is a need to re-look at the modes of assessment for blind and visually impaired students.

Despite a sizeable visually-impaired population, India’s Braille literacy ranks among the lowest in the world. This World Braille Day, a new innovation hopes to change that statistic by using unique features to make learning Braille fun and simple for India’s visually-impaired children.

India is taking great sides to provide accessibility to the disabled in the country. However, the medical centre unfortunately seems to have a lot of ground to cover. Anoushka Mathews takes a look at what steps hospitals can take to ensure that their services and facilities are offered to all on an equal footing.

From being the first deaf-blind student to graduate from Harvard Law School to becoming an internationally acclaimed accessibility leader and lawyer, Haben Girma’s journey exemplifies grit, grace, and gravity.

While there are many schools for educating blind people, very few equip them with the skills that would enable them to contribute to the economy of the country. Mitra Jyothi, a 26-year-old organisation based in Bangalore, works exclusively on this issue.

Bhupendra Tripathi suffered a paralytic attack, was diagnosed with cancer, and then lost his vision. This is how the brave hero crossed all of these hurdles and is working as the super-efficient manager of RBI Ahmedabad today.