Diversity and Disability

  • Diversity and Disability
    Diversity and Disability
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    Celebrate Life; Celebrate Diversity

    We welcome you to the community page "Celebrating Disability", an online discussion forum where we introduce, discuss, debate as well as campaign and advocate various concepts, perspectives, paradigm shift, models and legal provisions that concern and impact persons with disabilities. The title Celebrating Disability emerges from one of the ideologies of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) to celebrate human diversity and that Disability is a part of human diversity. 

    This online community page aims at demystifying the stigma associated with disability and reinforces the paradigm shift experienced by persons with disabilities from the charity and medical model to the social and developmental model, a holistic development of the society where persons with disabilities are an integral and contributing part and not apart. It will also focus on discussions and debates with regard to legal frameworks that impact persons with disabilities rightfully as well as adversely. The context and connect of UNCRPD with most terminologies & concepts to be discussed in the forum goes without saying. The perspectives of different professionals and their work with persons with disabilities are to be dealt as well. Any requirement for a larger campaign or advocacy may also be analysed in due course of a discussion. 

    This community page "Diversity and Disability" will provide motivational stories and achievements by persons with disabilities on an equal  basis with others, articles by expert persons with disabilities as well as professionals without disabilities on their work and perspective, the gaps in the legal framework and way forward to harmonise the same, strategies/models to implement UNCRPD at every level and a lot more, by way of public discussions, debates and other creative methodology on each article/story. In addition a webinar will be organised every quarterly to discuss the topic of the term. The topics may widely range from different provisions of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its connect with UNCRPD & vice versa, evolving concepts on disability, innovations pertaining to products, designs, services, infrastructure, information, communication and technology etc. 

    Supported by Vidya Sagar, Chennai

     

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  • Introducing A Communication Tool for Deafblind People
    The Ahmedabad based NGO Sense India which provides education and other services to deafblind children partnered with Samsung recently to launch a new mobile app which enables two-way communication for the deaf-blind. Akhil Paul, Director, Sense India, gives us details. The South Korean tech giant Samsung India, has partnered with Sense India, to launch Good Vibes, a new mobile application for the deafblind which allows communication with their caregivers and loved ones using their smartphones.…
  • Every New Kick In Karate Makes My Day
    Divya Sharma,26 is a young lady with 25 per cent vision due to acute glaucoma as a child. She is a successful professional and a karate blue belt, as well as an active disability advocate who conducts sensitization sessions. She is a winner on many counts. And she is raring to go. Please tell us a bit about your condition At the age of 3, my parents got a doubt about my eye-sight. Here it is worth mentioning that we are twin sisters. As we are twins, my parents noticed that I was not as active…
  • Upcoming Webinar: My Choices, My Personality
    Join us tomorrow Saturday 12th October 2019 for an insightful session where we discuss the role of personal choices in shaping personalities and self assertion among persons with disabilities. How did their families support  push the barriers to become independent and create possibilities? Topic Choices and decision making builds self esteem and shape personalities of people. Persons with disability are no different. They have the right to make life choices. Irrespective of the type…
  • Sunder and Sriram at work with a colleague at their eco friendly enterprise
    Voices of Persons With Cerebral Palsy : Independence and Inclusion
    World Cerebral Palsy Day  Today, we celebrate the achievements of persons with Cerebral Palsy. We have showcased people who have followed their heart and chosen different career options. They value their independence, their choices and they all wish for an inclusive society.  You can click on their names to learn more about them. Sameer Chaturvedi, a post graduate in Sociology from the Delhi School of Economics and a PhD researcher Kumaran Kumanan, an author, a counseling psychologist…
  • Bringing Joy of Cinema to the Disabled
    Movie going can be an inclusive experience accessible to persons with disability.  Sangeeta Robinson, Head – Sustainability & Inclusion, PVR Limited shares how PVR Cinemas is making various infrastructure modifications and installing assistive equipment and devices to make the movie going experience more supportive and inclusive. Could you tell us about the PVR Cinemas recently launched Accessible Cinema Program? The Accessible Cinema Program #Cinema4All was introduced in April, 2018…
  • There Are A Lot Of Things To Look Forward To
    Iftikhar Zia, together with the rest of the family, has been Zoyeb’s main support system. Zoyeb suffers from a rare neurological condition called Ataxia. Iftikhar on the journey and the accomodations required in schools, colleges to support Zoyeb’s drive for professional success. Please tell us about your son’s condition My son was diagnosed with Ataxia at 16. It is a neurological disorder affecting the balance causes poor coordination of the limbs poor gait movement slurs the speech and…
  • Evolving Personalities of Persons with Disabilities: Webinar Tomorrow
    Join us tomorrow Friday 30th August 2019 for an insightful session where we discuss the role of self advocacy and self determination among persons with disabilities. How did they push the barriers to become independent and create possibilities? Topic People tend to develop their personalities from the different things that they get to know and do in their lives, which may also have an impact from time to time. People develop their personalities at all ages and it is a constant shift for…
  • Jal Mahal in the backdrop of the Aravalli mountain range
    He Frames Photographs Using Sound
    Meet Pranav Lal, a self-taught programmer and an avid photographer with congenital blindness, who uses the vOICe, a computer software that works on the system of a vision to sound map, to commune with nature and sharing that joy with the rest of the world. Could you give us a little background about yourself? I am Pranav Lal. I am congenitally blind due to retinopathy of prematurity. Technology has played a big role in getting me where I am today. I keep exploring and experimenting a lot. I am…
  • "Believe In Your Child"
    In our conversation with Anupama Bakhshy, mother of Pranav Bakhshy, a budding model and a young man on the autism spectrum, we gleaned a few insightful learnings based on her experience. Key take aways for parents of children with special needs, particularly Autism: 1. Keep the child or the young adult at the centre and not his/her disability. 2. Believe in the child. Just because its not been done before, it does not mean it can't be done 3. Follow the child. Align to the child's inclinations…
  • A young man in a black blazer and blue shirt
    "Lack Of Accessibility At The Ground Level Is The Most Challenging Part"
    Zoyeb Zia, now an assistant professor of Zoology, has a rare condition called Ataxia. Zoyeb talks here about how he coped with the condition after he was diagnosed with Ataxia at the age of 16. Ataxia is a neurological disorder, which means ‘without order’ in Greek, affects a person’s balance, and it causes poor coordination of the limbs, poor gait movement, slurs the speech and affects the eye movement etc. Ataxia is classified as a rare disease.There are many variants of this disorder,…
Support and Occupational Therapist in Patiala
Received a request for an OT in Patiala for a 2 year old child with Cerebral Palsy. Any suggestions, recommendations would be welcome Family currently going to PGI Chandigarh for doctor visits thanks 
Evolving personalities by Persons with Disabilities
People tend to develop their personalities from the different things that they get to know and do in their lives, which may also have an impact from time to time. People develop their personalities at all ages and it is a constant shift for every…
Please support VaccesS, a 2 Day Expo at Vidya Sagar, Chennai
Vidya Sagar (Formerly, The Spastics Society of India), a 30 year old non-profit organisation working with  persons  with disabilities , is conducting a 2 Day Expo titled "VaccesS" @ Vidya Sagar, #1, Ranjith Road, Kotturpuram, Chennai - 600…
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