A study of the status of access facilities available for children with disabilities studying in BMC school at Mumbai

The present study title “A study of the status of access facilities available for children with disabilities studying in BMC school”, a descriptive survey designed was made with the aim to study the status of access facility available for the children with disabilities viz. hearing impairment, mental retardation, physically handicapped (Locomotors Disability), visually handicapped in BMC recognized schools. Further to give recommendation in order to promote the access needs for children with disabilities in school. Looking into the prospective of the study it also aim to create an awareness on the issue of barrier free environment for children with disabilities. As a part of tool of the study, self-made questionnaire was developed and validated by a group of professionals. 10 BMC recognized schools were selected in and around Mumbai and the questionnaire was administered by the researcher and taken information from the school principal.Mean average and percentage was calculated from the obtained data. On an average, overall 14.38% schools or centers with disabilities were having access facilities for students with disabilities. With respect to schools or centers related to Locomotors Disabilities, Hearing Disabilities, Mental Retardation, and Visually Handicapped study findings were 14.4%, 14.3%, 13.7% and 15.1% respectively, having access facilities for the children with disabilities in BMC schools. Where the data was subjected to statistical analysis and it was found that there was no significant difference (p>0.05) in terms of access facilities between the schools or centers for disabilities. Results indicated that there were very insufficient as well as inadequate access facilities across all children with disabilities in the BMC recognized schools. The results has shown an impact in the education of the disabled students as they need full accessible educational support to undertake their successful study. Hence, Government and all other educational authorities are suggested to take up this issue in a positive manner to improve the quality of education as there is a much needed access facilities in all the schools.

Smart Glove for Blind

Blind people's main problem is their loss of vision that cannot be corrected with glasses or contact lenses. They use sticks which will help to know their movement. But here there is a problem with navigation which leads to harm. To get rid of this problem we implemented a smart glove for blind using Ultrasonic sensor, GPS receiver, buzzer, vibrator, microcontroller, colour sensor, fall detector, and battery are all included in this system. Arduino UNO can be used to carry out this project. It can be connected to the sensors listed above. The ultrasonic sensor is useful for detecting impediments and guiding the visually handicapped. If the ultrasonic sensor encounters any difficulties along the road, a buzzer/vibrator is employed to alert the person. A colour sensor can aid in the detection of various coloured objects or items. If the person has an accident or something untoward occurs, the fall detector will notice it and notify their guardian. The device's overall goal is to give a simple and safe way for blind people to overcome their daily challenges.

E-Mail Reader for Blind People

To develop a voice primarily based email system that will facilitate visually impaired individuals to access email in a problem free manner. Together with providing usage of mail services simply and with efficiency, the system also will cut back the psychological feature work that must be unremarkably taken by the visually impaired to recollect and sort characters using the normal Braille keyboards, which are accessible to them. The graphical user interface of this method has been evaluated against the interface of the traditionally accessible mail system. Not only for visually impaired, but also for people who are illiterate might have the benefit of this technique. The foremost crucial facet which will be thought of developing this technique is that the users of this technique does not have any basic information regarding the keyboard shortcuts used or wherever the keys are used for. All functions to be utilized in this technique are supposed to be easy mouse click operations creating the system very user friendly. This application proposes an android application, designed specifically for visually impaired individuals. This application provides a voice primarily based mailing service which provides them to browse and send mail on their own, without any guidance. The users ought to use certain keywords which can perform certain actions for e.g. Read, Send, and Compose Mail, Address Book etc. This EMAIL system is utilized by a visually handicapped person to access mails easily and with efficiency. Therefore reliance of visually impaired on others for his or her own activities associated with mail are often reduced.

Improved daylight vision following AAV-mediated expression of R9AP in murine rod photoreceptors

Cone photoreceptors mediate daylight vision and are the primary cells responsible for vision in humans. Cone dysfunction leads to poor quality daylight vision because rod photoreceptors become saturated and non-functional at high light levels. Here we demonstrate that in mice lacking cone function, AAV-mediated over-expression of Rgs9-anchor protein (R9AP), a critical component of the GTPase complex that mediates the deactivation of the phototransduction cascade, results in desensitization of rod function and a “photopic shift” of the rod-driven electroretinogram. This treatment enables rods to respond to brighter light (up to ∼2.0 log) with increased visually-evoked cortical responses to high intensity stimulation. These results suggest that AAV-mediated transfer of R9ap into rods might be used to improve daylight vision in humans visually handicapped by cone dysfunction.

THE ANALYSIS OF HIDEN FACTORS OF ARCHITECTURAL BARRIERS IN SOSNOWIEC MUNICIPIAL OFFICE FROM DISABLE PERSON POINT OF VIEW AS IMPORTANT FACTOR OF SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE

Sustainable architecture is important to minimize negative impact of building. In this paper we concentrate on the problem from people with disability point of view. For them one of must important factors of sustainable architecture in public space is the problem connected with architectural barriers. In presented paper we conducted an analysis of hidden factors of architectural barriers on example of municipal office in Sosnowiec in southern part of Poland. During the research we analyzed the needs of persons with disabilities (perceived quality) and their assessment in terms of the level of quality of services provided by the municipal offices. We analyzed twenty fourth variables connected with architectural barriers in the municipal office and its neighborhood. We analyzed following variables: office location (easy to reach), a sufficient number of parking spaces, Z3 - parking spaces for the disabled near the entrance of the office, a clear marking of parking spaces for the disabled, watch for unauthorized persons occupying seats for the disabled, facilities for disabled people in the office, elevators for disabled guests, toilets suitable for disabled guests, handrails of the stairs, a system of ramps and ramps for the disabled, the doors have a width that allows entry wheelchair, anti-slip floor, equal level thresholds and floors, pavement and curbs around the office adapted for the disabled, website provides information for people with disabilities, website readable for people with visual disabilities, officials are turning to people with hearing difficulties by means of a suitable device, officials are talking with a person of hearing in a separate room, the office's employee who knew sign language, officials can serve the customers with guide dog, the office is equipped with a special frame to allow signing a document, the visually handicapped person allows the presence of a trusted person who acquainted her with the content of signed documents, the city council does not contain architectural barriers hindering the movement of physically disabled person, an overall assessment of architectural barriers at the office. Next we conducted factor analysis to identify main hidden factors of architectural barriers.

Algumas questões sobre a avaliação do portador de deficiência visual

Uma análise da bibliografia especializada sobre o deficiente visual revelou que pesquisas sobre seu desenvolvimento e sua aprendizagem têm sido feitas através de padrões do vidente. Este trabalho, a partir de dados dessas pesquisas, levanta alguns pontos para que os que lidam com a educação do deficiente visual reflitam sobre as implicações de fazer avaliações de cegos e portadores de visão subnormal usando o referencial do vidente. É um convite para que se pense em caminhos para conhecer o deficiente visual a partir de seu próprio referencial. Abstract An analysis of the literature concerned with blindness and visually handicapped reveales that research in these fields has been made from a visual point of view. This work considers some of the implications of making evaluations of blind and visually impaired students with the normally sigthted as the reference. It encourages adoptation of evaluation procedures that use the blind or visually impaired student as his own reference. Résumé Une analyse de la bibliographie specialisée sur le déficient visuel a montré que les recherches sur son développement et sur son apprentissage ont été menées d'après les modèles du voyant. Le présent travail, à partir des données de ces recherches, soulève quelques questions afin que ceux qui travaillent avec l'éducation du déficient visuel réfléchissent sur les implications qui découlent de jauger les aveugles et les handicapés visuels, en partant du référentiel du voyant; c'est une invitation pour qu 'on s'intéresse à trouver des voies pour connaître le déficient visuel en ayant pour source son propre référentiel. Resumen Un análisis de la bibliografía especializada acerca del deficiente visual reveló que los estudios sobre su desarrollo y aprendizaje se hicieron a través de criterios del vidente. Este trabajo, partiendo de los resultados de esta investigación, ofrece algunas conclusiones, para que los que se dedican a educar deficientes visuales las lleven en cuenta en el momento de evaluar los ciegos o los portadores de baja visión utilizando el referencial del vidente. Es una invitación a des cubrir formas de conocer al deficiente visual a través de su propio referencial.