US toymaker Mattel has introduced its first-ever blind Barbie. To accurately represent individuals with blindness or low vision and to maintain the doll’s accessibility, her eye gaze is directed “slightly upwards and outward.” To enable children with limited vision or blindness to feel the clothes on this Barbie doll, Mattel has included textured clothing with the doll. Additionally, Barbie has …
Adapted from the book Wannabe by Aisha Harris. On her Fox News show The Kelly File, Megyn Kelly’s producers corralled a panel of Fox contributors and commentators to bring my piece “Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore” to the attention of the world. She said I’d gone “off the rails” in suggesting Santa Penguin, and insisted, with …
“I often find myself in the upside down and I embrace it,” says the soft-spoken Jamie Campbell Bower, very different from his menacing on-screen persona of Vecna, the big bad of Stranger Things 4, as we catch up on a post-midnight Zoom call. As Jamie’s Vecna manipulates the minds of the Hawkins residents in the fourth season of Netflix’s science …
English, Mathematics and Science are the three subjects that students, especially the ones studying in government schools, find difficult to fully understand. Audio/ visual aids and other innovative methods are used in various schools to help children easily understand these subjects. But a retired government school teacher in Koppala uses dolls and toys to teach students about various theorems, science …
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