Posted by Satendra Singh on Thursday, October 20, 2011,
The Society for Disability and Rehabilitation Studies—SDRS (New Delhi) is
organizing a 4- day National Symposium on
“Designing Roads for Disabled Pedestrians in India” at Auditorium, Indian Spinal
Injuries Centre, New Delhi on 16th
to 19th December 2011 (Friday to Monday). The basic objective is to take stock of
the progress made by India with regard to designing safe roads for disabled
pedestrians, and thereby exploring avenues for providing them barrier- free
environment. Apart from...
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Posted by Satendra Singh on Sunday, October 9, 2011,
You
would be pleased to know that the Medical Humanities Group of Medical
Education Unit, UCMS & GTB Hospital, Delhi, is continuing ‘Confluence’- VI. Confluence is the medical humanities lecture
series of UCMS and in its sixth edition Ms Madhu Bala Sharma will be speaking
on the topic- ‘Broadening Horizons: Looking
beyond disability.’
Madhu Sharma is an IBM Global Process Services (formerly IBM
Daksh) employee and recipient of National Award for
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Posted by Satendra Singh on Thursday, September 29, 2011,
PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry in collaboration with IBM is organizing a one day workshop on ‘Awareness for Employing Persons with Disabilities’ on Sept 30, 2011 at PHD House, New Delhi.
IBM Global Process Services (formerly IBM Daksh) employee –Madhu Bala Sharma is the workshop facilitator . Visually challenged Madhubala is also a recipient of the National Award for Empowering Persons with Disability 2009 in the ‘role model' category.
The details of the workshop are here. The de...
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Posted by Satendra Singh on Tuesday, July 12, 2011,
Posted by Satendra Singh on Sunday, July 10, 2011,
The activities of our
Medical Humanities Group has been
published in the Centre for Medical Humanities, Durham University's blog. This blog has been included in the impressive list of '
50-best blogs for Humanities scholars' by the OEDb (Online Education Database). We are thankful to Dr Angela Woods for giving us this opportunity to publish our
activities.
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Posted by Satendra Singh on Sunday, July 10, 2011,
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Announcement on "my Livability":"Armaan
foundation, a non-profit organization that works for the empowerment of the
differently abled people is holding an online photography competition.
We invite photographers from all over to send in
their entries to showcase their talent and creativity in a way that it reflects
the life of the differently abled, Show us their livablility, not the
disability..!
Reveal the society a real picture of those living
with special abilities and thus support them t...
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Posted by Satendra Singh on Friday, July 1, 2011,
Dr Gautam Pandey, department of Anatomy, UCMS, Delhi made the above video for second India International Disability Film Festival titled 'Ability Fest 2007' held at Chennai. The fest introduced for the first time the concept of 'Audio description' in a film festival in India. Dr Gautam's entry in the '60 seconds to fame' captures how disabled people can bring diversity and colours to our life.
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