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Volume 5 Issue 2 - January 15, 2007
Braille computers for blind schools in Tamil Nadu
D.N.I.S. News Network -Government schools for the blind
in Tamil Nadu will soon receive Braille computers as
part of the State Government’s efforts to upgrade the training programme and to
make blind students computer-savvy.
Five Braille
computers with a special audio software will be given
to the
This is the
first time modern technology is being introduced in the government blind
school. The computers are meant for Class XI and XII students and the
Government will appoint two part-time teachers to teach them. Computers will
also be given to
In another
initiative, the Braille press that was in disuse for many years at the
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