Umang
Education & Research Centre for the Hearing Impaired
Goals
Our overriding goal is to help children become informed capable, responsible and empathic citizens of the nation and the world. It is to this end that we dedicate all our efforts.
- To provide services to deaf children in the form of a model school containing an Early Intervention Programme (0-5 years), a Pre-Primary Programme (Nursery and K.G), Primary, Secondary and a Higher Secondary School for the deaf, and a Resource Centre catering to the needs of deaf children and other children with language acquisition problems studying in regular school who need additional help. (Especially in the areas of language and speech development as well as children outside the city who are unable to attend the school.)
- To set up a cross disability vocational training centre and provide pre vocational, vocational and management training in appropriate skills to young deaf adults and other differently- abled adults so as to enhance career and employment prospects.
- To conduct research and prepare materials to create awareness of the problems of deafness, the necessity of early intervention and also research, develop and disseminate innovative materials for use by schools and parents to improve educational services provided to deaf children.
- To initiate early intervention and preventive programmes in rural and urban area through community based programmes and also initiate programmes for safe motherhood and maternal health.
- To establish a modern, state of the art diagnostic and prescriptive centre for the early detection of deafness along with a habilitation centre for cochlear implanted children and children fitted with conventional hearing aids.
- To start a mobile diagnostic unit and early intervention unit that can go to rural areas to aid early identification and habilitation of deaf children. Effective early intervention greatly reduces the debilitating effects of profound deafness on a person’s life by helping establish good communication and language skills.
- To start a centre for the training of professionals in special education, audiology and speech therapy, counseling, interpreting and parent education.
- To start a financial initiative to help deaf individuals and their families get funds for hearing aids, education, setting up their own business, implants etc.