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Experience of the PAVI With ICT

Experience of the PAVI With ICT. Parents Association of People with Visual Impairment (PAVI). Who we are? PAVI is a group of Parents of People with Visual impairment children or visually impaired themselves, who change their disabilities to Abilities PAVI Mission

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Experience of the PAVI With ICT

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  1. Experience of the PAVI With ICT

  2. Parents Association of People with Visual Impairment (PAVI) • Who we are? • PAVI is a group of Parents of People with Visual impairment children or visually impaired themselves, who change their disabilitiesto Abilities • PAVI Mission • Change the live of Visually impaired by • Medical treatment • Advocacy • Raising awareness • Integration • Inclusion • Awarness about low vision • Importance of ICT

  3. Situation of Visually Impaired in Egypt

  4. Magnitude of the problem of Visual Disability In Egypt (WHO) • Egypt population 72 million • National estimate of totally blind vary from 35.3 thousand to 737 thousand • WHO estimate of Visual impaired in Egypt is 4% i. e. 2.200 million • No national estimate of low vision persons • World wide estimate for every blind person there are 3 Low vision persons

  5. Situation of Visually Impaired Persons in Egypt • Number of student special education 2605 ICT is a subject not a media for learning • El Azhar have 2591 Student learn by hearing • Most of low vision are in regular school they drop out in early stages A number of low vision student are in blind schools • Number of visually impaired students in Universities1033 ICT labs are there but not for learning • Choice for universities is not open • 90 % of the V.I females & 70% of V.I males are illiterate • More than 70% are economically deprived • Significant social and cultural barriers. • The main support groups available in Egypt are mostly from the parents of V. I children.

  6. Situation of the visually impaired world wide with Technology • They are in regular schools • They have accessibility at work place • They study what they want in University • They have accessibility to information

  7. Why ICT? • ICT for visually Impaired is his eyes to see the world • It reduce the impact of his disability • It is the best way for communication

  8. Ministry of Communication and Information Technology PAVI IBM USAID Partner ship in ICT program for visually impaired person Universities NGO National Libraries Schools

  9. Aims of the project The aim of the project is to make ICT accessible to the visually impaired in Egypt, and thereby, enhance their opportunities to learn, live, and work independently. The three main objectives for achieving this aim are: • To raise awareness of ICT among both visually impaired and the general public. • To train approximately 40 computer instructors for the visually impaired. • To upgrade the ICT Resource Center at PAVI.

  10. Project Components • Awareness Campaigns/Workshops • NGOs, GOs • Parents, Service Providers • The Visually Impaired • Training and Capacity Building • Training of Instructors • Training the Visually Impaired • Rehabilitation for Sighted and Blind Trainees • Production of Instructor Manuals/Student Work Books • Teaching skills

  11. Out come of our 8 month ICT project • 56 took the TOT training (only 27 Certified trainer) • Trainer trained another 157 students • Having trainee in six different governorate in Egypt • Having trainee from different places national Libraries / blind schools/ Universities / NGOs / Institute of research and statistical studies • Have a specialized manual in E-format / Braille / low vision • Have a display for adaptive technology (software and Hardware) in PAVI • Have a small talking library • The first certified IBM computer centre for the visually impaired in the Middle East.

  12. Success stories • Walid :- loosing his job. • Khaled / Hassan : Got job in technology instituted in Saudi Arabia • Mohamed s: responsible for computer training In rehabilitation of the Military • Mohamed A: working in marketing consulting company • Fatma / Mohamed R / Magdy : They all went back for their master degree. Depending on them self These are example of some success story from the project but there is a lot of others of our member, who ICT change their life from being disable to able

  13. Building on • Programming • 10 student took programming with IBM • Out of the 10 student 3 under 15 years old • VB Net 2005 • Working on regular material softcopy • 9 of them past their 1st exam • Summer program • Last summer 7 student from school • Inclusion • Protocol with the Ministry of education • Change school books to E-format • Integrate 10 cases in schools • Integrate 15 cases in NGO • Work on illiteracy program on computer

  14. Our hopes and Mission for ICT and visually impairment • To consider accessibility in internet sides To work on the pricing of talking soft ware • To have E-books accessible for visually impaired • To advocate for the importance of ICT for the visually impaired • To have a computer for every visually impaired

  15. Thank You

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