{"id":44,"date":"2016-02-04T07:52:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T07:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/kvf\/?p=44"},"modified":"2016-02-04T07:52:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T07:52:13","slug":"learning-through-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnavidyafoundation.org\/about\/2016\/02\/04\/learning-through-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning through listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body\">Equipped with 20-seat computer classroom, the Centre trains students from weaker sections, to enhance their education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\u201cKarna Vidya means learning through hearing. Visually challenged students have enormous capacity to learn and gather information through their keen hearing capabilities,\u201d said G. Balasubrahmanyan, former president, RCMC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">The assistive technologies makes information accessible to them. \u201cThe Centre, which began in May this year, uses screen magnifier for partially visually-impaired and conversion of information in to accessible format through Digital Access Information System,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">It also has a Scanning and Reading Appliance Camera Edition, which is a next-generation self-contained scanning and reading appliance for the blind and those with low vision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body\">\u201cAt present, we are offering two four-month courses \u2013 Computer Application with Screen Readers, and Soft Skills Development. The Centre trains the students to get employed in IT companies and IT Enabled Services as soft-skills trainer and technical trainer. We are planning to introduce courses for Post-Graduate and Doctorate students and professional and business courses such as Law and Information Technology,\u201d said K. Raghuraman, Co-ordinator, KVTC, and Professor, Department of English, Government Arts College for Men, Nandanam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Equipped with 20-seat computer classroom, the Centre trains students from weaker sections, to enhance their education. \u201cKarna Vidya means learning through hearing. Visually challenged students have enormous capacity to learn and gather information through their keen hearing capabilities,\u201d said G. Balasubrahmanyan, former president, RCMC. The assistive technologies makes information accessible to them. \u201cThe Centre, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kvf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnavidyafoundation.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnavidyafoundation.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnavidyafoundation.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnavidyafoundation.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnavidyafoundation.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karnavidyafoundation.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnavidyafoundation.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnavidyafoundation.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnavidyafoundation.org\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}