BENGALURU: In what might be a boost in Science education for the visually impaired, the Indian Institute of Information Technology-Bangalore (IIIT-B) has evolved an era to assist in generating tactile photos of diagrams in Science textbooks faster.
Students with visible impairment use tactile diagrams, inclusive of raised lines and textures, to apprehend the photographs using their sense of touch. IIIT-B has developed a computer set of rules that would robotically translate snapshots in textbooks to 3D-printable tactile fashions. This automatic conversion of diagrams and snapshots into a record layout that may be sent to be a printer is being developed for textbooks from class I-X.
“This coaching aid will assist decentralize the process of acquiring these tactile photographs from an unmarried source and permit teachers the flexibility to download them as and when required in their elegance,” defined T K Srikanth, a professor in records science, IIIT-B.
The technology has been piloted in schools utilizing Vision Empower, an NGO. It is anticipated to be added in a few governments and private colleges in the coming years.
Despite the great dialogue, Disability Studies isn’t always a course consistent with se in India, however a way of information advent within the location of incapacity records, policy, rules, ethics, and so forth. “Specialisation on the grasp’s/doctoral stage focusses on the phenomena of disability thru a rights-based perspective – where the emphasis is on empowerment and growing the get entry to of disabled people to civil rights. This has brought about a paradigm shift from the earlier clinical angle with which Disability Studies was considered,” says Gajendra Narayan Karna, a researcher at Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU’s) Human Rights & Disability Studies Programmes, School of International Studies. “Recognising Disability Studies as an independent discipline/faculty via the UGC is the need of the hour with efforts required to train it as a primary challenge at the UG and PG degree,” says Sanjay Kant Prasad, deputy chief commissioner for Persons with Disabilities (PwDs), Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, GOI. “Presently, the schooling zone focuses on rehabilitation of PwDs without lots effort to create conducive surroundings for them,” Prasad says.
Lack of version curriculum
“While there is a flurry of programs on Disability Studies throughout institutes together with TISS, Panjab University, MG University (Kottayam), Guwahati University, Alagappa University (Tamilnadu), to call some, UGC is but to represent a version curriculum development committee within the area to prevent the haphazard way in which it’s miles imbibed,” Karna says.
“At JNU, efforts are underway to launch the Leadership Development program in Disability Studies soon. Over 25 students have pursued MPhil and Ph.D. programs on distinct elements of disability thru the University’s various centers and faculties,” says Karna.
Across institutes, Disability Studies can be studied on the MA/MSc, MPhil, and Ph.D. degree as a minor/non-obligatory subject in disciplines along with the Social Sciences, Inclusive Education, Anthropology, Social Medicine, and Community Health, etc. Since incapacity must be looked at from diverse perspectives, it cannot be studied in isolation.
Karna calls for the need to encompass Disability Studies as a non-compulsory challenge in the UPSC for careers within the administrative offerings. As freshers, they can start as assistant professors and paintings to grow to be professors. Postgraduates or PhDs operating in the subject can choose faculty positions in the Disability Studies centers/departments and the interdisciplinary clusters of universities. , Students may additionally be a part of NGOs or international improvement businesses such as the WHO and UNICEF in researcher, management, and analyst positions.