Noida, January 12, 2008: ‘Affirmative Action’—the social
outreach arm of The NIIT Institute (TNI), on its way to accomplish its aim to
increase the literacy level of the mass and heighten their socio-economic state,
has taken another concrete step to reach the differently-abled members of our
society—the hearing impaired.
As part of this initiative, NIIT joined hands with Noida Deaf Society (NDS)
in 2006 and created a program on Visual Design, Graphics and Desktop Publishing
for the hearing impaired, so that their abilities can be better leveraged to
enable them gain a skill of higher value. This initiative would help them be
better employed and find the necessary recognition in the society.
NIIT launched a one year program in October 2006, with Corel Draw, Adobe
Photoshop, Using flash, and Adobe Indesign as its contents. Eighteen students of
NDS were enrolled in the 1st batch.
The 1st batch of students successfully completed the course in December
2007 and was awarded NIIT Certificate in Graphics, Design and Desktop Publishing
by Mr. P. Rajendran, COO, NIIT, here today.
In the last one year, Instructors from NIIT participated voluntarily to
train these students. NIIT Instructors had a completely novel experience while
training these special students who were found to be equally competent as other
students, as far as intelligence was concerned. The students’ visual ability and
graphic design capability were pleasantly surprising.
Taking the association forward, NIIT will start the training program for
next batch of NDS students in January 2008.
About NDS
Noida Deaf Society (N.D.S) was established on the 13th of June 2005 with
the sole purpose of betterment of the Deaf people in and around Noida by Ruma
Roka. Ruma is trained as a sign language interpreter at the NIHH (National
Institute of hearing handicapped). The society is a non profit organization and
runs on private funding at the moment. At present it operates from 469 Sector 29
Noida.
The society has been successfully running the following programs:
- Teaching the written form of English language conducted through the Indian
Sign Language.
- There is a course on the Indian sign language also taught to
hearing-impaired students by a NIHH certified deaf teacher.
- Basic Computer Literacy–MS Office, Internet Browsing and Typing speed. This
course aims at making the deaf able to work in an office environment. It
provides classes for basic and intermediate computer skills conducted by a
certified deaf teacher.
- The society has a DTP course for teaching advanced level of computer skills
such as Adobe Photoshop, In Design and Corel Draw to enable the Deaf students
take up better opportunities in the IT market. This is being run by instructors
from NIIT.
- Tally application training is run every month for these students as they are
considered good with numbers and work with deep concentration.
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