Readers -housewives who volunteered to read for us- learnt Braille themselves and even bought Braille typewriters from their relatives in the US (in those days) to convert books into braille.
Subramani -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of renuka warriar Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 6:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [AI] Blind students teach Braille script to MP school students The Hindu News Update Service News Update Service Tuesday, September 30, 2008 : 1640 Hrs Regional Blind students teach Braille script to MP school students Bhopal (PTI): In a novel experiment of its kind, students from two well-known schools in the city, on Tuesday learned from four blind students how to read the Braille script. The experiment took place at the Variety Book House in the local GTB complex and the two also exchanged views on former President A P J Abdul Kalam's book "Parwaaz." The experiment was conducted by "Aarushi" a non-governmental organisation in the shop's Braille corner which was set up on February 4 this year. Executive Director of Aarushi, Sapna Gupta told PTI that under the Braille book reading session, four blind students--Kamal Damhore, Rajendra Dhurve, Manish Agarwal and Deepika Shukla exchanged views with 25 select students from the Sanskar Valley and Carmel convent schools. She said that portions of Kalam's book in Braille were read out by the blind students and its intricacies wereexplained to students of the two schools. To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.i n To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
