Geometry Kit for Visually Impaired Kids


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Creator/Artist: Minal Agarwal

Category: Product Design

Document: P3 Project

Batch: 2017-2019

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Presentation pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Purba Joshi


Detailed Description

The number of blind people in India is 12 million, out of which 26% are children. These children will be making major contributions to the society in coming years. Due to slow cognitive development and the inability to see, visually impaired kids face a lot of difficulty in education and learning. There are requirements for special methods and tools to make them understand various educational concepts. It was observed that due to the lack of certain resources, visually impaired kids are deprived of learning more visually inclined (diagram or picture) topics. Geometry is taught in upper primary schools to sighted students; however, due to the complexity and unavailability of proper instruments, it is not taught in the majority of blind schools in India. This design project dedicates itself to helping the visually impaired children to learn basic geometry and be able to construct simple geometric diagrams.