Testimonials

Shankar Subbiah

Assistive Technology and Accessibility Consultant at Agate Infotek, Chennai, India

“The special educators in Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute Coimbatore have used GEOMKIT to teach Geometry to the children with visual impairments (totally blind). Their feedback is as below:

  1. The GEOMKIT is innovative, first of its kind the special educators have seen in their special education learning. It encourages the children to explore and draw with confidence and feel it by touch.
  2. The children get the clear and distinctive idea of angles and measurement of length at concept level as they are drawing them themselves.
  3. The different concepts of geometry from simple to complex can be dealt with.
  4. They are able to draw precisely the angles or cut sectors, like their sighted peers are able to do.

The special educators would like to see students at primary level use GEOMKIT to learn the concept of line, curved line, circle and other conceptual math.”

Pushpa Madhwal

Special Educator at Saksham Blind School, Noida, India

“Nice product! GEOMKIT is fulfilling the requirements of visually impaired students extremely well. Their limitations are very well kept in mind while designing. The magnets used in the kit has resolved the problem of placing the components in right place appropriately on the board. Children at our school have been very excited to use the kit. The best part is that they are able to use it independently. Almost all the figures and constructions can be drawn with the help of GEOMKIT. Definitely it will help in developing interest in the children to study geometrical concepts. But, yes, training is required before it can be used correctly.”

Pankaj

a blind GEOMKIT user, student of class VII attending School with Inclusive Education in Noida, India

“When the teacher used to teach geometry in the class full of my sighted colleagues, I used to just sit and listen – I could not make any sense of it. But after using GEOMKIT, today when the teacher told us to draw a line, an arc on its one corner, an angle on the other, and then connect the intersection – for the first time I could understand what he was saying. I shouted – sir, I can do this too!”

Prashant Naik

Xavier’s Resource Centre for the Visually Challenged (XRCVC), Mumbai, India

“GEOMKIT is a good low-cost option to promote geometry for visually impaired. Great Work!”

Shakila Maharaj

Owner, Disability Management Services at DMS Global, South Africa (a blind herself)

“Simple and creative. Highly valuable for junior learners. Waiting to see GEOMKIT available for sale.”

Akila S.

Senior Engineer (Assistive Technology) at National Institute of Speech and Hearing (NISH), Thiruvananthapuram, India

“Both GEOMKIT and Braille LINEVIEW Slate are very user-centered and intuitive.”

Anshuman, Aishwarya, and Nandini

Vision Empower, Bengaluru, India

“These kits would surely benefit students and give them new tools to explore. The quality of lines created by GEOMKIT is a revelation. Liked the concept of LINEVIEW Slate and LAPcanvas Statistics Kit.”

Nirmalendu and Gesu

Microsoft Research India

“An eye opener to learning Mathematics. Loved how simple and scalable it is.”

Naveen Kumar

Enable India

“This will enable future generation Visually Impaired to learn Maths and Science without much intervention.”