UPES teacher attends WHO workshop on disabilities

Tribune News Service

Dehradun, August 13

Dr Neelu Ahuja, head of computing research Institute, R&D centre, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), attended a workshop organised by the Centre for Rehabilitation and Advancement of Disables (Cradle) in collaboration with the WHO Regional Office for South-East Asia, in New Delhi on August 10.

She has been working on a project involving IT interventions in developing tools and technology beneficial for people suffering from “learning disabilities”, especially dyslexia’–reading disabilities, ‘dysgraphia’–writing disabilities and ‘dyscalculia’–disability with numbers. Dr Ahuja’s suggestion of enhancing involvement of academia in general and the large student community in particular in this endeavour was appreciated and welcomed. During the question and answer session she stressed incubation and entrepreneurial support to youths so that they could contribute to improving the access to assistive technology for disabled and elders.