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Best Practices in Enabling, Educating and Empowering the Vision Impaired – The Vision-Aid Model
Ram Raju is the founder and volunteer executive director of Vision-Aid.
During this talk Mr. Raju will provide an insight into the Vision-Aid model, a comprehensive set of programs and best-practices which have been developed over the past 15 years of enabling, educating and empowering the visually impaired, across multiple locations in India. The Vision-Aid model aims to provide a holistic, 360-degree approach to Vision Rehabilitation. The speaker will discuss several exciting new initiatives underway at Vision-Aid including enabling the visually impaired with low-cost, high-technology devices, educating them with advanced skills training and rehabilitation programs and empowerment of the visually impaired through advocacy, inclusion and employment.
Ram Raju is the founder and volunteer executive director of Vision-Aid, a nonprofit serving the visually impaired. Ram holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania State University, and an ALM degree from Harvard. Ram was recognized for his public service by Harvard University with the Derek Bok Public Service prize in 2019 and the “Making a Difference Award” in 2019 from CHI among others.
Date: Thursday, May 28th, 10 – 11 PM USEST
(Friday, May 29th, 7:30 – 8:30 AM IST.)
Please adjust for your own time zone!
Session mode : Online
Registration fee: FREE
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