EnAble India is an organization involved in empowering people
with disabilities, to rehabilitate them and help them be self
dependent by providing employment assistance. Pankhudians at
Bangalore recently got an opportunity to get a good guidance
from Enable India on how to interact with and train the visually
impaired. The presentation was given by Ms. Nandhini, Ms.
Shantala and Mr. Santosh each of whom seem to be deeply
committed and passionate about the cause for which they are
working. The presentation started off with Nandhini explaining
us about the various technical terminologies related to the
visually impaired and that it’s a myth that people with
disabilities have any ‘sixth sense’. We were told about the
behavioral aspects of the visually impaired and how to deal with
them. Like for example – small children have various habits like
poking their eyes, head banging, making shrill noises etc which
can be a faux pas socially. In this case, the children should be
advised not to do so or divert their habi