Browsing Archive: November, 2011
Posted by Satendra Singh on Wednesday, November 30, 2011,
Ministry of Social Justice and
Empowerment announced awardees for the National Award for the Empowerment of
Persons with Disabilities, 2011. The awards shall be conferred by H.E. the
President of India at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 3rd December, 2011. In 1969, the Government of India approved a Scheme for giving
National Awards to the outstanding employers of persons with disabilities.
Empowerment of persons with disabilities is an
inter-disciplinary process, covering various aspects nam...
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Posted by Satendra Singh on Thursday, November 24, 2011,
Kathie Snow is a mother, public speaker, trainer, and author of Disability is Natural:
Revolutionary Common Sense for Raising Successful Children with Disabilities
and other books. She hosts the website Disability is Natural where the emphasis
is on people with disabilities as real people who can and should live real
lives, included in every aspect of their communities, living the lives of their
dreams!Kathie
was troubled by the descriptions used about his son and others with
developmental di... Continue reading ...
Posted by Dr Kaity Cama on Thursday, November 24, 2011,
In my world, in my
dictionary, there is no such word as impossible. People so very
often say that there are certain circumstances we cannot do anything about, and
i would honestly like to challenge that statement. No matter what
the circumstances be, if we want to find a practical solution and we intend to,
then the seeds of the solution can be found within the problematic situation
itself.
There are, i feel two
types of people in the world. One who see problems, and the other
type is the...
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Posted by World of Inclusion, London on Monday, November 14, 2011,
We are thankful to World of Inclusion and Disability
Equality in Education for providing this handbook on 45 A4 posters of
historical and current persons with disabilities whose lives have made a
difference to the world and to society.
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Posted by Satendra Singh on Saturday, November 12, 2011,
Medical Humanities Group of UCMS & GTB Hospital, Delhi and
its special interest group on disability (Infinite Ability) organized Confluence-VI
on 8th November 2011. Confluence is the medical humanities
lecture series of UCMS which is the first medical college in India to introduce
Medical Humanities to medical students.
In the sixth edition of Confluence Mrs Madhu
Bala Sharma spoke on ‘Broadening
Horizons: Looking beyond disability’. 100% Visually impaired Madhubala is also a recipient
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Posted by V.S.Sunder on Friday, November 11, 2011,
Mathematician
V.S.Sunder writes:
“I have been
increasingly mobility challenged of late due to the onset of a neurological
condition known as multiple sclerosis; and perforce, I have had to notice the
different ways that society excludes people like me, not deliberately, but for
want of consciously thinking of the need for a more inclusive and accessible
society. What started as irritation and unproductive annoyance changed to a
decision to do something about it. For a start, I thought I mi...
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Posted by Satendra Singh on Wednesday, November 9, 2011,
Infinite Ability is now
associated with the Global Disability Rights Library (GDRL) . GDRL seeks to
build a bridge between global information sources and millions of people with
disabilities, advocates, and policymakers around the world by making it easier
for them to access hundreds of thousands of educational and organizational
resources on disability rights, whether or not they have access to the
Internet.
The
Global Disability Rights Library, supported by the U.S. Agency for Interna...
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Posted by Namita Bhutani on Saturday, November 5, 2011,
A question most often faced by graduating
students of any university is what to do next in life. In today’s world, there
are several options available for people. However, for people with
disabilities, these options may not be as widely available. This is not because
there is a lack of ability but often because there is lack of information about
what opportunities exist and how one can gather the required knowledge and
skills to pursue a particular career path.
To address the need we are o...
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Posted by Sambhavana on Saturday, November 5, 2011,
Sambhavana organization cordially invites you for a lecture
on ‘The Exclusionary Politics of Right to Education Act’ by Vikas Gupta on
Saturday, 5th Nov, 2011 at 10.30 am in room no.22, Arts Faculty,
University of Delhi (North Campus).
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Posted by Nature Special on Friday, November 4, 2011,
Autism spectrum disorder has attracted intense
interest from the public and scientists over recent years. Nature sorts fact from fiction in this hot,
but sometimes contentious, field: from the debate about soaring diagnoses, to
the idea that scientists and engineers are at high risk of having a child with
autism. The special includes news and comment from Nature,
and articles from Nature Medicine, Nature Neuroscience and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. Image Credit: Loannes Baptista, Wikimedia ...
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Posted by EOC, DU on Thursday, November 3, 2011,
Equal
Opportunity Cell, Delhi University is organizing a two-day CulturalFest: Srijan
for students with disabilities on November 12, 13 at Shri Guru Gobind Singh
College of Commerce, Pitampura. Most of the competitions this year are
inclusive. The non disabled students of the College would also be able to
participate in the competitions.
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