The Trigger Group - Asha for Education's focus group for disabilities

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Join our focus group. Help with research. Help make connections with like-minded people. Find out more

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Make a tax-deductible donation to Asha for Education.

PROJECTS
View a list of Asha projects for children with disabilities.

Resources

Information about disabilities

Technology

Enabling Technologies - manufactures Braille embossers
International Institute of Information Technology - created speech-to-text technology for Hindi and Telugu
Microsoft Speech Technology
Vidya Vrikshah - created Multi-lingual Editor (MLE)

Organizations

SETU Developmental Intervention Centre, Ahmedabad
Disability India Network
North South Foundation - organizes the BREAD scholarship
Acharya - for multilingual IT systems
List of NGOs working with disabilities in Delhi
Ability Foundation
Higher Education for People with Special Needs (HEPSN), Jawaharlal Nehru University
Ophthalmic Mission Trust (OM Trust) - fundraising association for the Sankara Nethralaya
Concerned Action Now (CAN)
National Association for the Blind, India
Blind People's Association, Ahmedabad
List of NGOs in Chennai that work with disabilities (MS Excel file)
SIT Force - use Information Technology to socially and economically empower people across the world
Association for India's Development (AID)
Blind Foundation of India

Hospitals

Statuatory Bodies

Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment - includes a list of associated organizations and assistance available to individuals with disabilities
Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped
National Institute for the Mentally Handicapped
National Trust - for the Welfare of Persons with Autism, Cerebral Palsy, Mental Retardation and Multiple Disabilities. (Mininstry of Social Justice and Empowerment. Govt. of India)
Rehabilitation Council of India

Conferences

INformation Technology ENablers for persons with Disabilities (INTEND) - organized by the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineers

Web Accessibility

Books

Disability Status 2001 by the Rehabilitation Council of India
Children with disability by Mark L. Batshaw

Other

Touch and Small Garden for the Visually Impaired, Chennai

ASHA FOR EDUCATION

Asha for Education is a non-profit organization dedicated to socio-economic change in India. We believe that education is a critical element of socio-economic change.

In keeping with this focus, our volunteers get involved in identifying, researching, owning, and sustaining projects that target basic education.

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