The Early Intervention Programme This is designed for children between the ages of 0-3 year and their parents and families. Parents are encouraged and helped to become partners in their child's learning process.

The Preschool This caters to children between 3-6 years. Learning to communicate is the most important part of a deaf child's early education. The focus here is on developing effective communication skills, which include spoken language, speech reading, auditory processing, pre-reading and pre-writing skills along with age appropriate motor, cognitive social and emotional skills through a wide variety of meaningful activities.

The Primary School Here a great deal of emphasis is placed on developing independent speaking, reading and writing skills through a thematic language based curriculum enriched with poetry, music, band, art and craft, sports, indoor games and computer education. Each class has its own class library with books produced 'in house'.

The Mainstream Programme A number of children studying in the school are identified and prepared to enter mainstream schools. Parents are helped to identify schools and teachers are sensized and trained so as to make the transition easier for the child.

The Resource Centre assists a number of children studying in mainstream schools in English, Gujarati and Hindi to enhance their language and speech skills through individually designed programmes.

Educational Materials Development Centre The centre is developing appropriate linguistic material in printed and electronic form to support the language and speech curriculum.

We are also translating and captioning available books into Gujarati so as to enable us to set up our own internal library. Work is also ongoing on the preparation of modules to be used for training parents and 'balwadi' workers especially in rural areas.

The Outreach Programme makes services available to deaf children and their parents in areas outside the conventional ambit of deaf organizations based in cities.

Diagnostic camps are organized and technical assistance is provided to local organizations wanting to set up services for the deaf.

Workshops are held in collaboration with other government and non-government agencies to train 'balwadi' teachers, parents and health workers and to bring about awareness of various issues in the area of disability especially hearing impairment.

Our Future Plans include a vocational training and management school, a sign language study centre, a centre for training professionals as well as an initiative- Deaf Voice promoting the networking of deaf individuals, their parents and professionals. We also hope to be able to establish a financial assistance and information cell.

In the near future we hope to set up an audio logical service centre and an ear mould laboratory, a mobile diagnostic unit and a computer centre.