Dhvani (means sound in english) -Early Intervention Centre is comprehensive project of Save The Children India aims to reach out to young hearing impaired children between 0 to 3 years of age. Created with an aim to provide quality service to hearing impaired babies from all strata's of society. It not only provides early intervention services to poor and needy children but also facilitates interventions of providing good quality hearing aids and cochlear implant surgeries.
Deafness is silent and hidden handicap. It cannot be seen hence its ill-effects are not visible to others and therefore hearing impaired child suffers in the world of silence. Deafness in India goes undetected majorly because of "Wait and watch" approach by parents.The delay in detection and intervention of hearing impairment have serious repercussion not only on speech language development of the child but also puts child at a disadvantage in school, society and future opportunities in life.
Dhvani provides access to state-of-art technology and service to hearing impaired children from all strata of society. Dhvani's services include: Audiology Testing - with latest audiological equipments and sound treated rooms. Auditory - Verbal Therapy - an approach which emphasizes on listening. Parental Guidance - to ensure active involvement of parents in the child's mainstreaming process. School Readiness Program and Pre & Post Implant Management & Mapping
Dhvani offers customized audiological, therapeutic, school readiness program, parent guidance sessions to these children. Dhvani has advanced equipment, sound treated testing booths, therapy rooms and qualified, experienced staff. As the name says the focus of our centre is early diagnosis & intervention of these hearing impaired children so as to develop listening skills and spoken language naturally and mainstream them in regular school at age appropriate academic level.
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