Addressing the education incongruity among the visually impaired population is the need of the hour.

People with visual impairment, children in particular, face major issues when it boils down to learning anything throughout their life. Children with such disabilities are usually low on self-confidence which leads to social, emotional and intellectual partitioning. Currently, the affected people have limited access; learning for the visually impaired people remains constrained to the text which can be accessed and presented through Braille and audio devices. However such traditional methods pose a lot of issues in terms of the learning of the visually impaired. Simple concepts like fractions, pie charts, or the water cycle, or complex diagrams like a combustion engine require visual imagery for children to understand which they have no standard access to. Teaching impaired students is currently a highly labor-intensive task, requiring multiple efforts from the teachers and repetitive instructions to the students. There is also an over-dependence on a special educator’s motivation, skill and time since all accessible material is created by hand and administered in 1-to-1 contact hours which is certainly expensive, time consuming and thus inaccessible for a very large chunk of the target population. Repetitive recitals also trigger social awkwardness and discomfort among the students. Children with visual impairment go through a lot of social isolation due to taboos associated with their disability. This leads to a life burdened with low self-esteem and lack of self-reliability. Aids existing in the market that are accessible and inclusive should promote independent usage for the children, which is definitely the need of the hour. They need to be designed to nurture their natural curiosity and hunger to learn from an early age. Read less