Tech for good: Class12 students develop an app to help the deaf, blind and mute communicate with ease
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Developed by three Class 12 students from Amity International, Delhi, the Practikality app provides an interactive mechanism for the differently abled - the deaf, the blind, and the mute - and is in its final stages of testing. The co-founders of the Practikality app
For seven-year-old Rohan Velanki, a partially mute and deaf child, the
joy of social interaction was a limited experience. A
quiet and reticent child, Rohan began interacting with Sugam, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), which works towards the betterment of abandoned and differently-abled children. Over the course of the next six months,