GITAM professor develops kit to enhance Braille learning

Teaching Braille to visually impaired radical usually requires sizeable clip and idiosyncratic attraction from instructors.

For these reasons, Braille literacy complaint successful the state is debased (1%, overmuch little than the wide literacy complaint of 77.7%).

To code this challenge, Mohammed Khwaja Muinuddin Chisti, Assistant Professor, Department of EECE, GITAM-deemed-to-be University, designed an innovative Learning Assistant Embedded Kit (LAEK) to empower visually impaired students to larn Braille independently. He says helium has registered for a patent connected his invention.

The instrumentality consists of a 3×2 hollow hemispherical Braille compartment equipped with sensors that accurately observe embossed patterns placed by the student. The strategy decodes these patterns and provides audio feedback, announcing the corresponding letters, numbers oregon instructions.

“This exertion volition alteration students to larn and modify Braille independently, importantly reducing their dependence connected teachers. It volition heighten the self-learning experience, physique assurance among learners and alteration teachers to efficaciously negociate aggregate students without overloading them - making the teaching-learning process much efficient,” said Mr. Mohammed.

While appreciating Mr. Mohammed’s innovation, Dosapati Chaitanya Sai Ratna Kumar, Regional Centre Manager, Visakhapatnam, Vision Aid, and who suffers from 30% ocular impairment said: "India is location to a 3rd of the world’s unsighted people. Braille is presently an outdated method for the visually impaired aft the instauration of the astute acquisition system. Almost 99% of the visually impaired trust connected astute gadgets similar laptops, astute phones, apps, to explicit themselves either orally oregon done writing.

Speaking to told he Hindu, Mr. Chaitanya said: “On behalf of the visually challenged, I would suggest that technologist should enactment connected upgrading the achromatic cane (which helps the visually impaired navigate safely by sensing obstacles similar side-walks and stairs and alerting others astir their imaginativeness impairment) with Bluetooth enabled audio sensors. We privation achromatic canes that tin usher america much efficaciously by detecting objects accidental a dog, a snake oregon a tiny pothole connected the road. The achromatic canes indispensable beryllium synced to our smartphones. If it is developed, it tin payment radical with 80% to 100% ocular impairment. More importantly, these devices indispensable not beryllium costly.”

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