INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) : DISABILITIES: BLINDNESS
AND VISUAL IMPAIRMENT : COMPUTER: TRAINING : COUNTRIES: NEPAL: Blind and
Visually Impaired Youth Introduced to ICT at Nepal CMC
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Blind and Visually Impaired Youth Introduced to ICT at Nepal CMC
15-06-2005 (UNESCO New Delhi)
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php
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Lumbini Community Multimedia Centre (CMC) has recently organized a one-day
orientation programme for blind and visually-impaired students of Shri
Shanti Model Secondary School in Manigram, a village in Western Nepal.
Shri Shanti local government school has about 850 students twenty-eight of
which are either blind or visually impaired.
For me, the computer was entirely new. I had never used it before. The
centre here not only gave me an opportunity to know about ICT, but also
arranged training for me and other students, said an excited Kamal Tharu.
Kamal is a visually impaired student in class nine of Shri Shanti School,
who has participated, together with seven other students, in the ICT
orientation organized by Lumbini CMC.
The inspiration for the training was a visit to the CMC by two visually
impaired students. Sagar Subedi, one of them, had taken part in a training
workshop on a text-to-speech software called JAWS. When he heard that the
Lumbini CMC had also obtained the software, he and a friend came to
investigate. The JAWS software literally reads text from computer
documents, including Internet websites and e-mails.
Blind and visually-impaired students attend classes along with other
students. They come from as far as Gulmi, Chitwan, Parbath and Agrakashi
(all neighboring districts). The recent one-day training by CMC has
increased their desire to learn about basic computing and Internet,
reports Krishna KC, Shri Shantis resource teacher for disabled and
Lumbinis chief radio technician.
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