Resource centre at Loyola for 'special needs students'...

Loyola College has launched a resource centre to take care of the needs of its special students in collaboration with Vidya Vrikshah, an organisation for the differently-abled. Envisaged as a model for higher learning institutions elsewhere, the Resource Centre for the Differently-Abled will provide a full range of solutions to address the special needs of the 48 visually challenged students of the college. It will also put in place a mechanism for mobilising voluntary services of the student community to serve the diverse needs of the special youth.

Loyola students Vikas Munoth and Akhilesh Malani, both visually impaired, gave a brief demonstration of `Jaws' software applications, while Raja along with his sighted peer Mohanansundaram showed why the Indian language software developed by IIT Madras bagged the President's medal for the best IT solution for the disabled last year. "Jaws' software versions were donated by U.S.-based NGO Anne Foundation, while the Katpadi-based Worth Trust donated five computer application kits.

Source: The Hindu