Large Print Books for the Low-vision Students
This post was published on: August 31, 2017
Blind Youth Association Nepal (BYAN) conducted a meeting with representatives from Curriculum Development Centre (CDC) and Department of Education on 30 August 2017 (14 Bhadra 2074), to discuss about making the text-books low-vision friendly.
The Executive Director of CDC, Mr. Krishna Prasad Kapri, Deputy Director of the Department of Education, Mr. Ganesh Prasad Poudel and Deputy Directors of CDC, Ms. Sarala Poudel, Mr. Dharmaraj Tripathi, and Mr. Pushparaj Dhakal along with Mr. Ramchanrda Gaihre, General Secretary, BYAN and Mr. Vishwo Ram Shrestha, Program Manager of BYAN, were present at the meeting which concluded on a note to publish books with appropriate fonts and larger texts and pictures in order to make the books low-vision friendly.