Having red my previous article “Sighted friends –This is for you”. , the following article was written by one of my friend Ruwani De Silva Basically, this article is based on a Sinhalese teledrama named “Sanda” telecasted on ITN and the drama had been created on a story featuring a blind girl. I suppose, this article too will give you ...
The Sighted world is always a challenging place for those of us living with sight loss. There are many aspects of everyday life which require us to tackle many obstacles in order to live our lives to their full potential. To overcome some of those life challenges, blind or visually impaired person look for assistance from sighted persons. In this ...
As posson poya is about to dawn in a few days time, I felt that posting an article about an ancient Buddhist site which I recently visited would be appropriate. It was a day outing and was organized by the Abimansala –Anuradhapura with the aim of changing the monotonous of totally dependent war heroes. The day outing was planned to ...
Due to no or limited eye sight, blind or visually impaired persons have always been deprived from fully enjoying visual events such as a movie, tell drama, documentary, stage drama and sports event. On the other hand one might think that what the heck that blinded person could gain from a movie or visual medium, but one should not forget ...
It is no doubt that getting around is the most challenging aspect of a newly blinded person, so Mobility and orientation module is included In almost all rehab programs for blinds. Hence I also had received the white cane training at the army rehabilitation centre, but I have yet been struggling to get around independently in an unfamiliar environment. However ...
The playing of chess has become a favorite passion and hobby of many blind persons around the world. For me, it has helped to deal with not only with my blind friends but also with sighted companions on equal grounds. By and large, loss of vision has not affected me to learn and play chess but adoptive chess set is ...
One second is all it takes to know what time it is. That is, if you can see your watch or clock. On the other hand, if you are blind or have low vision, it would be a very different situation. You may even think of resorting to the help of others in doing this vital task due to the ...
Yenuli with her parents at 7th month Yenuli at 1 year with me and my parents at Anuradhapura Yenuli is playing with a little puppyI am posting this article to my little daughter who is still 1 year and 9 months old, knowing the fact that she is still not able to read this or understand any of these. Yet ...
I am posting this article to my little daughter who is still 1 year and 9 months old, knowing the fact that she is still not able to read this or understand any of these things. Yet I am certain one fine day she will read this and realise how she was brought up by her parents. Most of these ...
Since most of my previous articles were based on blindness, I just felt that posting something relevant to my personal life would be appropriate to have a bit of variety. This posting is about how I met my wife and got married. One day in the year 2007, one of my batch mates happened to stay at Ranaviru Sevana after ...
Reading is a very important aspect in human life. Some do this as a hobby while others do this as a way to gain knowledge& information. It has always been a problem to a blind or visually impaired person to read a book in its original form due to the fact that books are basically printed on a plain ...
For many people, the mobile phone is an essential communication tool, but their complexity and requirement of visual interaction has often made them difficult for blind and partially sighted people to use. Therefore, several screen reader software’s and applications have been developed to aid blind & visually impaired persons to get the full use of the mobile phone just as ...
The National Sportsmeet for the Disabled The same year the National meet was held at the Sugathadasa stadium with the participation of many civil athletes. In the national meet my performance was further improved and I was able to set-up three national records for the 100m, 200m and the long jump events for which I was presented with the award for ...
The long jump When I was schooling, the long jump was my strongest event and since I was doing fairly well in running, we decided to give it a try. First we practice the run-up; it began with 2 steps then 4 steps. Particularly in the long jump event of totally blind athletes, running in a straight line is the ...
I assumed that adding a video at the beginning of this posting would be more sensible than putting it at the end. One day I was invited to a party which was organised to share the joy of the 2002 FESPIC Games (Far-East and South Pacific Games) that were held in Busan, South Korea. There was an army officer, ...
More often than not, when I’ve been introduced to somebody who visits Abimansala-Anuradhapura, the following chunk of words is often used by the commandant- Lt. Col. Kanishka Bandara. “This is Major Dushyantha Yapa, our special education officer; he is totally blind but uses the computer very well”. Subsequent to that, a query is regularly raised by most of them asking ...
Following the medical treatment I had from India and also the other treatment from indigenous medicine to religious practices during the period from April 1999 to March 2000, it dawned to me that the possibility of seeing this world yet again through eyes was bare minimum unless a spectacular technological finding immerges or miracle takes place. When I was at ...
Even for me, it is hard to believe that 15 years have gone by since my injury and surprisingly I haven’t felt it as that long as since it’s been filled with lots of excitement. By looking at me now, I am sure that nobody would most likely think that I have had such a tormenting passage of life and ...
I was then a 2nd lieutenant and was the acting OC of the Bravo (B) Company. It was quite an enjoyable and exciting passage of my life although I had to face lots of hardships due to inclement weather, training and particularly the pressure given to us by seniors. During that time, on a regular basis, LTTE and our troops ...
In the third quarter of year 2012 I was able to step in to another important chapter of my life, it is to work in Abimansala � Anuradhapura as its Special Education officer. The Abimansala has been built in close proximity to “Nuwara wewa” adding an added glory to the sacred city of Anuradhapura. This centre was built with the ...
