Ability Forum

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Bangalore:
When a visual medium like television gets a visually impaired person to read the news, it makes news. Doordarshan’s Chandana channel marked the 201st birth anniversary of Louis Braille by presenting four unique bulletins.

Programmed for the occasion, the bulletins — aired at 7.45 a.m., 1 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. — had three visually impaired persons reading the news out of a Braille sheet along with regular news readers.

Commemorating the contribution of Louis Braille, after whom the worldwide system for reading and writing by the visually impaired is named, the readers were chosen from the Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled. The fourth person, who accompanied the readers, was Samarthanam trustee Mahantesh G. Kivadasannavar.

Samarthanam’s representatives read out the day’s bulletin from Braille sheets by touching the characters, comprising different combinations of one to six embossed points that stand for each letter of the alphabet.

This is the second consecutive year that the public service broadcaster is hosting this unique programme, the first of its kind in the history of the Indian media.

“We trained the visually impaired persons for D-Day,” said Mahesh Joshi Director, Doordarshan Bangalore Kendra. The IDL Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, released a Braille calendar for the year 2010 to mark the occasion.

Released by Jayarama Raje Urs, Secretary, Department of Kannada and Culture, the calendar will be distributed to about 300 visually challenged persons, IDL founder P.K. Paul said.

Those who want a free copy of the Braille calendar in Kannada or English may call  (080) 23608787.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/05/stories/2010010558260200.htm

Bangalore:
When a visual medium like television gets a visually impaired person to read the news, it makes news. Doordarshan’s Chandana channel marked the 201st birth anniversary of Louis Braille by presenting four unique bulletins.

Programmed for the occasion, the bulletins — aired at 7.45 a.m., 1 p.m., 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. — had three visually impaired persons reading the news out of a Braille sheet along with regular news readers.

Commemorating the contribution of Louis Braille, after whom the worldwide system for reading and writing by the visually impaired is named, the readers were chosen from the Samarthanam Trust for the Disabled. The fourth person, who accompanied the readers, was Samarthanam trustee Mahantesh G. Kivadasannavar.

Samarthanam’s representatives read out the day’s bulletin from Braille sheets by touching the characters, comprising different combinations of one to six embossed points that stand for each letter of the alphabet.

This is the second consecutive year that the public service broadcaster is hosting this unique programme, the first of its kind in the history of the Indian media.

“We trained the visually impaired persons for D-Day,” said Mahesh Joshi Director, Doordarshan Bangalore Kendra. The IDL Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, released a Braille calendar for the year 2010 to mark the occasion.

Released by Jayarama Raje Urs, Secretary, Department of Kannada and Culture, the calendar will be distributed to about 300 visually challenged persons, IDL founder P.K. Paul said.

Those who want a free copy of the Braille calendar in Kannada or English may call  (080) 23608787.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2010/01/05/stories/2010010558260200.htm

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