Many people help the disable live above their circumstance
Louis Braille 1809-1852, a French inventor, created a reading system for the blind called Braille. These are raised dots on paper that the blind can read by touch.
Charles-Michel de I’ Epee 1712-1789, founded the first public school for the hearing-impaired in France. He developed the first sign alphabet for the deaf and created a method of teaching for them.
What has a famous scientist and inventor like Alexander Graham Bell got to do with Helen Keller?
A part from inventing the telephone, Bell was closely associated with the deaf. Bell’s mother and wife both being deaf, he did a lot of research on hearing and speech. Bell opened a school for deaf pupils among whom; the most famous was the young child Helen Keller.
Farook Collage, affiliated to Calicut University, Kerala, has installed a digital talking book facility called `Insight’ for the benefit of visually challenged students. With `Insight,’ so far, 32 blind students are able to read books without needing Braille. The facility includes computers, a scanner, a set of speakers and headphones. There are voice prompts that help the user to operate the computer.
There’s more good news for the visually-impaired! The National Institute for University Handicapped (NIVH) is going to offer a course to train visually-impaired persons for a career in `radio jockeying.’ Soon, blind people can work as radio jockeys in FM radios.
Cinema plays a vital role in making people aware of the struggle and the loneliness faced by people with vision, hearing or speech disabilities.
Try to see films such as Koshish, black, Iqbal. These films reflected the struggles people with disabilities face to get jobs, make new friends, or marry. Often the lives of people with disabilities are lonely but may rise above it to make their small world happy. Their lives are a lesson for us to learn from.
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