Cerebral Palsy
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Microsoft CEO's 26-year-old son, Zain Nadella, passes away
Fp Staff •The software maker told its executive staff in an email that Zain Nadella had passed away. Zain was born with cerebral palsy.
Youngster fighting cerebral palsy beats all odds to crack JEE (Main), secures 438 rank in entrance test
Trendingdesk •Twenty-one-year-old Tuhin Dey wrote the exams holding a pen in his mouth and operated his mobile phone and computer the same way, reports said
New Education Policy lacks focus on children with special needs, misses opportunity of recommending mandatory screening
Anurag Kundu •Teacher educational courses must be tweaked to enable all teachers to develop the right attitude and the knowledge to screen children with disabilities and provide the required support.
Voice-assisted ‘foodbuddy’ lets people without functioning arms eat independently
Tech2 News Staff •The amount of food & breaks between doses of a meal can be adjusted and controlled with voice commands.
Synthetic speech: Virtual voicebox converts brain signals to speech using AI
•Researchers had better luck with some sounds like sh's & less so with abrupt ones like b's & p's.
Parliament passes autism bill: Amendment to 1999 Act will streamline appointment, resignation of members of national committee
Fp Staff •Autism bill: The Parliament on Thursday passed a bill to streamline the appointment and resignation of members of a trust that helps people with disability to live independently.
SC tells states and UTs to 'scrupulously' follow law for disabled, seeks compliance reports
•The Supreme Court on Monday asked all states to scrupulously follow the 2016 law on the rights of persons with disabilities and submit a compl
Overcoming disability: How children with special needs found their place in Mumbai’s classrooms
Indiaspend •The number of Indian children with special needs who are out of school is 594,000 (28.2 percent), compared to 6 million children or 2.9 percent of all children who are out of school.
Disability Information Kiosks Set Up In Delhi Hospitals
Fp Archives •The kiosks will provide pamphlets giving information on various disabilities, schemes for persons with such disabilities, contact numbers and addresses of associations run by parents for persons with disabilities, help-lines and NGOs working on related is
SC directs Spicejet to pay Rs 10 lakh damages for offloading woman with cerebral palsy
•The Supreme Court on Thursday directed budget airline Spicejet to pay Rs 10 Lakh as damages to a flyer, suffering from cerebral palsy, who was forcibly offloaded in 2012