Dear Friends, Greetings. Kindly spread this mail as much as possible for the benefit of VI community. Thanks and Regards Chintan ----- Original Message ----- From: Bhushan Punani To: Bhushan Punani Sent: Friday, February 19, 2021 6:53 PM Subject: FW: Invitation: Zoom meeting on Demonstration of Newly Developed O&M and Human Guide Techniques for Persons with Blindness during Covid like situations
Dear All, Every person was expected to wear mask, maintain social distance and avoid human touch to control spread of Covid. The persons with visual impairment found it difficult to avail voluntary support of other people while seeking help to cross road or negotiate a busy street. The people were reluctant to extend their arm to assist such persons as human guides or hold their white cane to avoid human touch. The ICEVI West Asia and BPA took up the challenge of modifying mobility cane technique as well as human guide technique which could enable persons with visual impairment avail voluntary services of public while maintain social distance and avoiding human touch completely. Both these techniques have been developed after seeking comments and feedback of a large number of persons around the world by creating a WhatsApp Group known as "Covid & Mobility of Blind". Thanks to all those persons who participated in discussion on this group. Now, ICEVI WA and BPA wish to demonstrate these techniques to Mobility Instructors, Special Educators, CBR Master Trainers, persons with visual impairment and the parents. The techniques shall be further refined based upon the feedback of participants. Mr Rajendra KR, International Disability and Development Consultant , Innovative Development Transformations has consented provide his Opening Remarks on this initiative. Dr B K Panchal, as accomplished Master Trainer of O & M shall demonstrate both the techniques. We expect number of other O&M expert to join us in this webinar. We invite all persons who are interested in teaching, promotion and use of mobility techniques to join us in this webinar. We shall limit participation to 500 persons on first come first basis. You are most welcome to complete your registration formalities at your earliest convenience and oblige. With best wishes Nandini Rawal Bhushan Punani Treasurer: ICEVI Global President: ICEVI West Asia And ICEVI West Asia team Enclosed: You are invited to a Zoom meeting on Demonstration of Newly Developed Orientation & Mobility Techniques and Human Guide Techniques for Persons with Blindness during Covid like situations When: Feb 27, 2021 11:00 AM India Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEldO2tqD4rHtIhdYQZ4_vR_hfkQc4L4dxZ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. -- Vidhi Shah Project Coordinator Tanya Computer Center Blind People's Association (8469147523) -- Disclaimer: 1. Contents of the mails, factual, or otherwise, reflect the thinking of the person sending the mail and AI in no way relates itself to its veracity; 2. AI cannot be held liable for any commission/omission based on the mails sent through this mailing list.. Search for old postings at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AccessIndia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/a/accessindia.org.in/d/msgid/accessindia/001701d70729%2409675720%247b2ba8c0%40ChintanPC.
