Vidya Sagar is a centre for special education based in Chennai. The school
offers support to children with disabilities and their parents through
various therapies and techniques that make day to day life easier.
Vidya Sagar believes that the use of technology can make a positive impact on
children with disabilities. Specially created devices and gadgets can help
train children with disabilities. The children can be taught strategies to
cope with disabilities with the use of technology.
With this thought in mind, Vidya Sagar brings the VaccesS 2018.
A two-day exhibition that will put on display the various devices and gadgets
for people with different types of disabilities.
Equipment and accessible devices will be on display at the Vidya Sagar venue
on 8 and 9 December. Parents, special educators, designers, and others can
look at the various tools and assistive devices that can be used for making
everyday life less challenging for people and children with disabilities.
The aim of the VaccesS 2018 event is to create awareness about the various
options available for the use and comfort of people with disabilities.
Mobility devices, accessible chairs, spoons, plates, toys, gadgets, the list
goes on and on.
Many disabled people in India can get the benefit of these assistive tools.
However, lack of initiative and information has kept them out of the Indian
market. Vidya Sagar team hopes that by looking at the latest and innovative
designs, even designers in India can come up with such ideas.
Parents of children with disabilities can also get to know about the options
available for the development of their children at the exhibition.
The aim of these assistive devices and tools is to help make the people with
disabilities as independent as possible. With a little assistance, disabled
people can learn to do most of their daily tasks themselves and that is a
major boost to their morales.
According to Kalpana Rao, Principal, Vidya Sagar School, the
aim of VaccesS 2018 is to promote accessibility and inclusion.
We wish to open up the minds of people towards accessibility by telling
them of the innovations being done in the field. Parents can take ideas and
get their own assistive devices or tools designed at a low cost and help
their children with disabilities. Ideas need inspirations and that is what
we are aiming to do with VaccesS this year. – Kalpana Rao,
Principal, Vidya Sagar School
The exhibition can change the outlook of people about assistive devices.
Designers, architects and people in general can help create a more inclusive
and accessible society by paying attention to some very basic details.
Accessible offices, parks, shopping malls, schools, buildings, washrooms and
toilets, these are some basic changes that we need to make around us so that
people with disabilities can also move around and become part of the
mainstream.
“We wish to make an impact on the life of people with disabilities by
helping them know about the assistive tools available. We also hope to change
the attitude of the society towards disabled people. People with disabilities
want to be independent, all they need is for the society to create inclusion
and accessibility around them”, says Radha Ramesh, Director, Vidya
Sagar School.
So, if you are Chennai next week, do take out some time and visit the
exhibition to know more about assistive devices.
Source: https://newzhook.com/story/20735
