Kerala to set up activity centres for special children

Updated on: Friday, December 03, 2010

In an initiative aimed at addressing the needs of special children, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan will inaugurate activity centres for autistic and visually impaired children in the state.

Kerala State IT Mission (KSITM) Director Ishita Roy said that the activity lab for the autistic children and an audio library for the visually impaired would be inaugurated on the occasion of International Day for Disabled Persons.The facilities are the result of initiative by INSIGHT, a joint project by KSITM and SPACE (Society for Promotion of Alternative Computing and Employment), conceived to empower the differently abled.

Roy said, “INSIGHT was conceived and set up with an objective to assist the differently abled to be productive members of the society.”The audio library will have a collection of over 100 audio books in English and Malayalam. A vocational centre too will be set up to train visually impaired students.

INSIGHT has also collaborated with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), whereby it would evaluate the performance of the trainees and award certificates.
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Kerala to set up activity centres for special children

In an initiative aimed at addressing the needs of special children, Kerala Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan will inaugurate activity centres for autistic and visually impaired children in the state

Kerala to set up activity centres for special children

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