To create awareness in accessing tools and devices to carry out education and employment related tasks for the visually impaired
This workshop was held at VOC Stadium, Tirunelveli between 24th Feb 2023 and 27th Feb 2023.
To build the Disabled and Non-disable teaching resources to teach person with Visual Impairment on following subjects such as Science, Technology, English and Mathematics using accessible technology tools and device.
Illustrate the accessible devices and application to resolve the challenges of personal and academic related tasks.
Number of participants – 20
The activity “Source the Resource” was started with the aforesaid objectives on September 9th 2023 at 2.00 PM in Karna Vidya Foundation Head office with Chief guest Mr. Ravindranath Singh Deputy director for person with disability Government of Tamil Nadu and special guest Ms. Divya from Teach for India, students with Special education various colleges, Parent of Visual Impairment and KVF trusties.
Mr. Raghuraman advisor of KVF and Programme head initiated the discussion with the students with special education to understand the observation about person with visual impairment skills and behaviors during their journey. Each one of them shared their experiences about the Person with Visual Impairment eagerly. Followed this, facing challenges of Person with Visual Impairment in the personal life and academic learning was discussed. Each one of them expressed their observation such as independent walking, reading academic material, writing assignment and exams etc.…
The challenges were noted down by the KVF team and continuation of this Advisor and programme head addressed the students to provide the solution for the list of challenges expressed. The solution was provided with real world example and that was agreed by the students and assured the same will be taught to the school students with Visual Impairment during their work journey.
In the second part of the discussion, role model was introduced to understand the capabilities of person with Visual Impairment. Mr. Ashwin person with Visual Impairment who pursues 10th standard in a Private school and He learnt all the technology at Karna Vidya Foundation Since 2017 and He started to do all his personal and academic tasks on his own by using technology. He shared his learning experience and tools using for completing his regular academic routines on independent. It gave the confident among the participants.
In the third discussion, we have introduced Mrs. Kavitha’s parent of Mr. John harris who pursues 7th standard in a private school. It is introduced to illustrate how the parent can become a teacher to the students with Visual Impairment. Mrs. Kavitha briefed about the support it was done to her child to be an independent in regular and academic routines. In the mean while she explained about the tactile diagrams and science models done by her son and it was selected as a good science model from Tamil Nadu region and He had gone to Kanpoor to participate in the science exhibition addressing students of Tamil Nadu.
In the final discussion, we requested each student to share their learning and their thoughts about to become a teacher in their own subjects using accessible technology tools and They requested to provide the training on technology to teach the subjects. List of expressing interest was noted down by the KVF team and interested students would be asked to participate in the technology training and methods. Orientation on technology training for the students with Special education would be finalized soon and shared to the participants to become the teacher for person with Visual impairment.
In the final session, Chief guest and special guest addressed the students and appreciated the interest towards community development and career choice for person with Visual impairment community.
Purpose of the workshop was
To instill confidence to pursue education through mobile device to nurture an independent and accessible learning environment.
Hands on experience was given to the participants on mobile operation with the help of external keyboard and without external keyboard.
Illustrate and demonstrate the mobile Devices and applications for independent mobile operation to carry out academic and personal routines.
Discussed the challenges and provide solution in carrying out academic routines through mobile device.
Venue: The Faculty of Disability Management and Special Education, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Coimbatore.
This workshop was held between on 9th Feb, 2023 and 10th Feb, 2023
Workshop to learn Science, Technology and Mathematics for academic support was conducted on 16th Oct 2022. Around 40 school students participated actively in the workshop.
Venue: Karna Vidya Foundation Guindy centre
