The Man Who Was Disappointed with What He Saw (Broadcast)

This man, "SB", was blind until his sight was restored at age 50, and who found it hard to learn to see.

 

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/

 

The Man Who Was Disappointed with What He Saw (Broadcast) 

S.B grew up blind. But at middle age his sight was returned to him. His case transformed the field of visual perception, but it's also the bittersweet story of the fruits, and spoils, of science.
Chris

SVH Music Workshop for Blind students at Shantipur, Nadia March 23-24, 2018

Adventure sports for the Blind: trek, Judoka 2018

How vulnerable are persons with loss of vision in India? April 2018

Reshma Khatun & Md Mojammil, two blind students of Lighthouse for the Blind School: how Society for the Visually Handicapped, Kolkata, India mainstreamed them, an accout 09-03-18

You will see here photos of Reshma Khatun & Md Mojammil, both minor Blind students of the Lighthouse for the Blind (LFB), Kolkata visiting our Library today to receive scholarship funds donated by WgCDR D K Roy, Kolkata. You can also spot Reshma in the profile photo of this page right on the left seated. What happened was that almost 6+ years ago I was invited to a community service program relating to screening of vision inside the Belgachia slum.
A volunteer from Hope Foundation informed me that two Blind children, one girl, the elder one & one boy the younger one were residing close by & would I like to home visit them? I promptly went with her inside the lanes & bye lanes of the slum & knocked at the door of a 4ftX6ft room full with various daily usable items. On a wooden hard bed I found Reshma jumping up & down & Mojammil standing on the floor. I had a doubt that they were undernourished as Mojammil had walking problems. I counseled the mother Parvin Bibi who has an eldest daughter who is sighted & going to school next door.
Back home I contacted Mr M B Chhetri (fondly called Chhetrida, a reputed physiotherapist from the Indian Inst of Cerebral Palsy,) fixed up a date with him & brought him for a home visit. Chhetrida suspected Vitamin D loss in Mojammil & advised consulting local R G Kar Hospital.
This process too was taken care of & all credit goes to the mother Parvin who cooperated so much to mainstream her children. Their father worked as a daily mason & hardly found time during daytime. Finally Parvin agreed to admit her children to a special school as earlier she had a very bitter experience with Sarva Sikhsha Mission Resource Centro. Principal Amio Satpathi of LFB warmly welcomed the two kids who are now regularly attending the school for the last 3 to 4 years, their mother untiringly escorting them to & fro using Metro Rail service from Belgachia to Kalighat. SVH was there right through by her side for any support she hesitantly asked for. Both Reshma & Mojammil now can breathe fresh air of education, music, sports, group participation like any other child of their age. SVH is grateful to its donors & volunteers for this small commitment done with dedication !

Hearing & Speech Impaired Cricketer Abhishek Sinha--highest scorer in 2nd Division League from National Atheletic Club, Kolkata. Dreams of joining mainstream First Division.004-03-2018

SVH creates awareness about community service for the Blind jointly with St Xavier's College, Kolkata

03 February 2018
Dept of Social Work, St Xavier's College, Kolkata deputed to SVH BCom Hons students in two lots: one, from day session four boys Nitish Himatsingka, Rahil Jaysawal, Tushar Shah, Raunak Pareek & two, from Evening session girls Avantika Agarwal, Nikita Dudweta,,Nikita Golchha, Sakshi Saraf, Saloni Dalmia, Shrestha Anand & Varsha Daiya to complete their 30 hours of social work under NSS scheme.,
For the boys we gave four assignments i.e. raise small funds from friends & relatives to purchase Braille paper, go to the paper shop at Sealdah & buy to understand the difficulty a Blind student has to face to buy paper independently, to take an interview of Mr Dilip Loyalka the first Blind Chartered Accountant (1983) in India, an LLB & an Income Tax Practitioner managing his CA firm J Loyalka & Co & computer editing of digital audio books for Blind students. They have completed their assignments and video-recording was done of the entire task. Due to technical problem it was not possible to upload the material here.
For the girls as you will see from the photos below they were given an orientation about the digital audio book recording through a Voice Recorder by our Section in-charge Mrs Chandralekha Sinha. Next they were shown by SVH front office staff Sangeeta Hazra,the technique of editing raw data recorded through the software Soundforge.They were then given clips of recordings to complete editing at home & submit.