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Vision-Aid offers workshops, presentations, lectures and seminars through its Webinar series. All topics are within the spectrum of low vision, blindness and vision impairment. These webinars are conducted by experts in the field of various degrees of vision impairment. The target audience of our webinars include vision professionals, people with vision impairments, Vision-Aid supporters and well-wishers.
Feel free to write to us at voa@visionaid.org if you need webinars in other topics that are currently not available on this site.
Dr. Pooja Desai
Covid-Care Webinar Series
Dr. Sam Taraporvala
Best Practices in Awareness and Advocacy Programs for the Visually Impaired
Kirby Lindgren
Best Practices in Online Education for the Visually Impaired
Dr. Loubaina Buxamusa
Best Practices in Vision Rehabilitation - An Occupational Therapy Perspective
Dr. Kathryn Miller
Basic Assessment and Management of Pediatric Low Vision Patients
David Kingsbury
Best Practices in Assistive Technology Training Instruction for Blind and Visually Impaired Adults
Prof. John Ravenscroft
Identifying and supporting economic needs of families with visually impaired children, including children with cerebral visual impairment
Pallavi Deshpande
Life Skills Training For The Visually Impaired & Disability Rights
Dr. G N Rao
Best practices in Operating a Tertiary Low Vision Center: Synopsis
Dr. Linda Lawrence
The importance of Vision: Visual development and Low Vision in infants and small children
Neha Sharma
Best Practices in Communicating with individuals with MDVI
Neha Sharma
The Role of Orientation and Mobility in the World of the Visually Impaired
Dr. Barry Kran
Overview of CVI: Definition and considerations around assessment and habilitation
Dr. Alexis "Lexi" Malkin
Overcoming Barriers to Low Vision Care
Dr. Bhavani
Iyer
Advances in Low Vision Technology
EVENTS & WEBINARS
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Dr. Pooja Desai is MHA, DOMS, MBBS.
Vision-Aid has launched a Covid-Care Webinar Series, a live session where eminent people from the field of medicine, healthcare, life sciences and other areas will share important information about Covid and how citizens need to respond to it.
Dr. Pooja Desai is MHA, DOMS, MBBS.
The speaker for the session was Dr. Pooja Desai, an eminent Ophthalmologist working in the USA. She is a public health graduate currently working as an analyst for a healthcare organization in the United States offering expertise in the economic recovery post Covid Pandemic. She completed her medical degree
back in 2012 following which she worked as a consultant ophthalmologist in various municipal hospitals in Mumbai for 6 years. During her tenure as a physician, she have performed numerous cataract surgeries and offered medical expertise to treat various vision issues
May 23rd between 8:30 PM – 9:30 PM IST (11 AM – 12 Noon EDT).
Please adjust for your own time zone!
Dr. Pooja Desai
Covid-Care Webinar Series
Dr. Sam Taraporvala
Best Practices in Awareness and Advocacy Programs for the Visually Impaired
Kirby Lindgren
Best Practices in Online Education for the Visually Impaired
Dr. Loubaina Buxamusa
Best Practices in Vision Rehabilitation - An Occupational Therapy Perspective
Dr. Kathryn Miller
Basic Assessment and Management of Pediatric Low Vision Patients
David Kingsbury
Best Practices in Assistive Technology Training Instruction for Blind and Visually Impaired Adults
Prof. John Ravenscroft
Identifying and supporting economic needs of families with visually impaired children, including children with cerebral visual impairment
Pallavi Deshpande
Life Skills Training For The Visually Impaired & Disability Rights
Dr. G N Rao
Best practices in Operating a Tertiary Low Vision Center: Synopsis
Dr. Linda Lawrence
The importance of Vision: Visual development and Low Vision in infants and small children
Neha Sharma
Best Practices in Communicating with individuals with MDVI
Neha Sharma
The Role of Orientation and Mobility in the World of the Visually Impaired
Dr. Barry Kran
Overview of CVI: Definition and considerations around assessment and habilitation
Dr. Alexis "Lexi" Malkin
Overcoming Barriers to Low Vision Care
Dr. Bhavani
Iyer
Advances in Low Vision Technology
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Try to learn something about everything, and everything about something
– Thomas H. Huxley
INFORMATIVE VIDEOS
Vision-Aid provides a platform for many a visually impaired people to revel in their skills. We have seen and experienced a large number of the visually impaired population show-case successes in their life despite the loss of sight. Whether it be graduating from a course, to de-mystifying MOOCs, or even launching Vision-Aid’s services, these Videos provide a glimpse of what success means to those with low-vision and visual challenges.
Feel free to write to us at voa@visionaid.org if you need webinars in other topics that are currently not available on this site.
MAKING COVID-19 INFO EASY TO UNDERSTAND WORLDWIDE
In India and globally, amid the continuing COVID crisis, one of the big challenges faced by Persons with Disabilities (PWD) is their inability to access vital information and resources published by governments and organizations because this information is not digitally accessible to persons with disabilities.
Thursday, May 20th, was “World Accessibility Day”. To commemorate this global accessibility awareness day, Vision-Aid organized a special webinar on the important topic of making Covid-19 information accessible for persons with disabilities.
John is leading a crowd sourced initiative using Artificial Intelligence technology to make information accessible, readable, and easily understandable. For more info, see EasyCOVID19.org and EasyText.AI.
Send us a note to voa@visionindia.org if you need more of such videos and webinars.
John is the Director of INDEX at U Mass Amherst and is in charge of the Massachusetts State’s web site for disseminating information for persons with disabilities. John is also a faculty member at U Mass, and also participates in the World Wide Web (WWW) standards bodies for defining Web Accessibility Standards globally. John is a prolific blogger and prides himself on writing “one – minute blogs” which are very popular with his broad base.
CCA GRADUATION CEREMONY | MEET & GREET STUDENTS OF LACHHMAN DASS VISION-AID RESOURCE CENTER (AGRA)
Watch the Vision-Aid meet-and-greet event for Delhi students. We count this as memorable to both Students and all guests. Over 100 persons attended including around 20 of our visually impaired students, Our friends at Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital, and several esteemed guests attended the event.
Our Chief guests were Mr. Ram & Mrs. Meetu Gupta. Vision-Aid is so grateful for their support, and for gracing the event also sharing gracious words at the event.
GRADUATION PROGRAM: STUDENTS WITH VISION DISABILITIES
You will be glad to know that 100’s of our students with vision disabilities have graduated from Vision-Aid’s instructor-led online courses. Vision-Aid conducted online graduation programs having sponsors and esteemed guests including people like Dr. Chuck R. Severance a well-known Coursera instructor.
Watch the students as them express their success, the excitement that education holds for them, and the impact Vision-Aid has created in their lives
LAUNCHING OUR DIGITAL ACCESSIBILITY TESTING CENTER
Watch the launch of a world-class Digital Accessibility Training & Testing Center. In this video, we walk you through how Vision-Aid’s DATTC can bring accessibility to your Website. Our DATTC has been used by companies worldwide. You can be one of them soon.