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OBJECTIVE:

To make the disabled employable through the use of various I.T Tools.                      
This Objective has also been clearly enshrined in the mission statement of the Information Technology Department.It is seen that the persons with one type of disability have other faculty highly developed. For instance visually challenged person has a very keen sense of hearing and sharp memory. Similarly a hearing impaired has an above average power of concentration enabling him/her to be more productive in certain areas than a normal person. The I.T Department would like to leverage and hone these faculties. For instance hearing impaired can make a very good DTP operator. Similarly a person who is visually challenged can memorize an entire telephone directory and function effectively as a telephone operator.

The idea is to use I.T  tools to help them communicate effectively and also improve their skills.

INITIATIVES:
Following Initiatives has been taken by the Information Technology Department to meet the above OBJECTIVE.These initiatives have resulted in improvement in the performance of the disabled students in the Board Examinations and with subsequently many of them getting employment.

  • Conversion of text books into Braille for the benefit of the visually challenged Students of Sikkim.About 80% of the prescribed school text books have been converted to Braille employing the services of three Deaf and Dumb computer operators. In this process three Deaf and Dumb computer operators have been gainfully employed.

  • Many books have been converted to audio in the Daisy format in our in- house recording facility. These are very useful for students with visual impairment and Cerebral Palsy who have problems reading. These audio books are being sent to the Blind school, Namchi and Spastics School, Gangtok. More talking books are in the pipeline.

  •  Special audio players called Daisy Players have been given to the Blind Schools.

  • A full fledged Computer Lab has been setup at the Namchi Blind School along with fast Braille Printer (Juliet Pro), Duxbury Braille Translator.JAWS, scanner.Tactile Reader.

  • Performance of the I.T equipment and students is monitored by Department of I.T on a monthly basis.

  • At the special School for the Deaf and Dumb at Gangtok a Computer Lab has been set up and a 'software' Teaching Sign Language using Nepali vernacular has been developed by us. Various DTP software like Corel, Pagemaker, Photoshop and typing software has been installed. A computer instructor who himself is Deaf and Dumb has been posted at the Special School and he teaches the Students Typing and DTP.

  • The Department of I.T monitors the performance of the Students on a weekly basis. The idea is to make the Students acquire skills to get jobs as data entry operators and photo editors.

  • Under Capacity Building Programme 22 local youth suffering from various disabilities underwent a one month training programme in Multimedia organized by Department of I.T.

  • The Department of I.T has also introduced special icon based software and devices for teaching children suffering from mental and motor disabilities at the Spastic School.

  • At the Viklang Sahitia Samiti office 11 computers have been installed to teach orthopedically handicapped on IT skills.

 

TECHNOLOGIES AND SOFTWARE'S BEING USED:

  • JULIET PRO EMBOSSER:

        For Visually Impaired, Used for creation of BRAILLE"S 

  • JAWS:

        Jaws is a powerful Software Program Designed to work with the Speech Synthesizer to improve the productivity of the visually impaired Students.

  • VECTOR WAVE DAISY PLAYER

        Ideal For Visually impaired, Low Vision and learning disabled users. It is a Digital Talking Book Player

  • ZOOM TWIX

       For Visually Impaired, Zoom Twix magnifies the text and is a Powerful Reader.

embosser  EMBOSSER                                  jaws JAWS

DAISY READER                         ZOOM TWIX ZOOM TWIX

ICT VOCATIONAL CENTER:

  • The Ministry of Information Technology has planned to set up ICT VOCATIONAL CENTER IN 100 Schools across the country with latest technological equipment.
  • Out of these Sikkim is getting three centers, Blind School Namchi,Special School for the Hearing Impaired and Sikkim Viklang Sahitia Samiti respectively.

  

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