Inclusive Teaching

On the one hundred and thirtieth birth anniversary of India’s Second President and first vice-president Dr. S Radhakrishnan, we, at Innovision, pay tribute to India’s renowned Academician and reverent teacher. Dr. Radhakrishnan is known as a great thinker, philosopher and as the bridge between Indian and western philosophies. As his thinking was open and inclusive of different schools of philosophies, we as a company take inspiration from Dr. Radhakrishnan’s spirit of inclusiveness and his vision of education for India.

Innovision, through its technology solution “BrailleMe”, is trying to make its small contribution in the spread of education and literacy among the visually impaired students. If the facts of census 2011  are to be believed, the number of illiterate disabled persons stands at 12,196,641. According to WHO statistics from 2007, of the 37 million visually impaired persons across the globe, over 15 million were from India. At Innovision, the emphasis is on reducing the existing inequalities and opening doors of new opportunities for students as well as for working professionals.

For students, BrailleMe is indeed a boon, for now they can type their exams in Braille without the need of a writer. Unlike the hard copy Braille, BrailleMe provides refreshable Braille output which gets auto converted into sighted text. Similarly, soft copy books in any language can now be read in Braille, thanks to the text-to-Braille and Braille-to-text conversion.When the technology is revolutionizing, the ways in which we consumed information will also improve in numerous ways.

Access to lot more educational content in multiple languages and trying to substitute heavy schoolbags with bulky braille books -BrailleMe presents itself to be a Braille tablet for the visually impaired students. As the hard copy Braille books are bulky and not very portable, BrailleMe can carry thousands of books in single SD card. Because of the auto conversion from Braille to sighted text, inclusive education for the visually impaired students becomes even more simpler.

Sighted teachers who do not know Braille can still teach visually impaired students, check their answer sheets as sighted text, monitor their class assignments and homework. Besides making digital Braille content accessible and affordable, BrailleMe goes miles in elevating the sense of being at

par with sighted peers and feeling of being self-reliant among the visually impaired students.

With the government’s efforts to bring the level up of overall accessibility, this teacher’s day, Innovision reaffirms its commitment towards accessibility for the visually impaired students both domestic and international. We believe that absence of sighted assistance, accessible material or unaffordability of technological solutions should not come in way of education of the visually impaired. Therefore, today we reestablish our long-term vision for inclusive education as well as inclusive teaching, which will be an enriching experience for  both teachers and visually impaired students. While envisioning inclusive education as the reality, wish a very happy teacher’s day to all students and teachers across regions and geographies.