Information Society Watch

June 6, 2007, Shuchi Grover, India Together

A recent workshop in Bangalore, the "Computer Training workshop for children and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders" is using computers and digital technologies to help autistic children. This article reports on the proceedings and outcomes of the workshop, which was attended by participants from as far as Chennai and Mumbai.

June 2007, Dataquest India

Autism affects some of the brightest minds, including many in the IT industry, this article details how technology can help. This includes the creation of a working environment with as few elements of distraction as possible and the use of special software which caters to their needs (like the 'dasher' software which allows for typing using a mouse rather than a keyboard which autistics find difficult to operate).

2006, Rajib Mitra

New hopes are streaming with the advent of Information Communication Technology (ICT). Apart from its increasing importance in bringing the hemispheres close ICT has paved the way for the challenged people—physically or mentally—to ameliorate their life by providing appropriate educational environment and equipments suitable for them. But to avail facilities as much as possible through this booming technology international cooperation for copious provisions in respect to ICT, issues in standards and legislations at various levels, universal access to ICT and its challenges and the principles involved in creating standard technological products etc are to be taken care of.

2005, Brij Kothari, Avinash Pandey & Amita R. Chudgar, MIT Press Journal

Same Language Subtitling (SLS) is the idea of subtitling the lyrics of song based television programs (e.g., music videos), in the same language as the audio. Situated in a literature review of subtitling, this article describes the first-ever implementation of SLS on a TV program of film songs, specifically for first-language literacy. Chitrageet, a weekly 30-minute TV program of Gujarati film songs, was telecast across Gujarat state in India, with the lyrics subtitled in Gujarati. The article discusses the results of the pilot study to test the effectiveness of SLS of film songs on the reading skills of out-of-school people.