A sword driven by instinct and heard is ” See the Sound ”, the initiative organized by the Cultural Circle Grazia Deledda Parma Campus Sports Center. Match regular, where athletes Fencing Club La Farnesiana you are blindfolded and have faced the team of blind Accademia Fiorentina.
SOFTWARE FOR THE BLIND A challenge not competitive, with no winners or losers, to promote the fencing lessons for the blind Club La Farnesina, which will start in February, and to give visibility to the extraordinary project “Soundsight Training ‘, software that allows people who are blind can train the ear through the relationship between the sounds and put and the echo that results. The software was created at CERN in Geneva by the creative genius of the engineer Irene Lanza and the doctor Marco Manca. “The importance of the project lies in the fact that people who are blind can work in a protected environment, a virtual gym where making mistakes and learning – said Paola Macioni Circle of Grace Deledda Parma -. Currently the project is under crowfounding, the goal is 250 thousand euro. If we reach the figure by the year the software, which is free and open source, will be available from 2017. “
Also present at the event Andrea Grossi, CEO of the Italian Paralympic Committee, and John Marani, councilor the sport of the City of Parma. “Lately the sport parmesan, expanded area of Paralympic sports, saw the birth of new positive experiences, such as the Disabled Sports – said Marani -. Events like this are important because they approach new people to the sport. “
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