AURED (Aural
Education For The Hearing Impaired)
We
believe in the right of every hearing
impaired child to
communicate in spoken language.
Our
goal
is
integration for
hearing impaired
children to become
independent, participating
and contributing
citizens in
mainstream society.
Name
of Organization:
AURED
Aural Education For the Hearing Impaired
Address:
Registered Off:
No. 9 Garden Homes
The AURED Charitable Trust:
1st Road
, Khar-West
Mumbai 400 052
India
AURED
Anand Niketan
King George Vth Memorial
Dr. E. Moses Road
Mahalaxmi, Mumbai
400 011
India
Telephone:
Trust:
91 22 2604 8798
AURED:
91 22 2492 6721
Email:
aztyabji@vsnl.net
aured@vsnl.net
Trustees:
Aziza T. Hydari
Kumud Misra
Sheila Naharwar
Rajni Khatau
MNM Cama
Benvimita Lam
Legal
Status
Charitable Trust
Registration
Number: E13546/BOM
Date of
Registration: 15.10.91
FCRA
Registration
083780527
Income
Tax Registration
Exemption under Sec. 80 G
About Aured and its Philosophy
Aured was
founded in 1986.Its aim is to habilitate hearing impaired
children and integrate them into mainstream schools. The
specific method used is known as the Auditory Verbal
Approach.
It enables
children to develop their residual hearing. They learn to
listen and speak, and this facilitates their integration
into society.
Over the
last 19 years, Aured has worked with hundreds of children,
growing from 3 students in the back room of an apartment to
over 140 currently enrolled students in a ‘barrack’ at
Mumbai’s King George Memorial Trust.
Children take part in one-on-one teaching sessions .
Therapy is conducted in 4 major languages - English, Hindi,
Marathi, and Gujarati. Parents, are the primary caregivers,
and are required to participate in teaching sessions to
enable them to learn how to implement AVA in their homes No
sign language or lip reading is used.
The Focus
of the Organisation:
To integrate
hearing impaired children to become independent,
participating, contributing citizens in mainstream society.
This is done using a very specialized method called Auditory
Verbal Approach, which teaches a child to listen and speak
by making use of every bit of hearing it may have. The basic
idea is to equip these children to function in a hearing
world as normally as possible.
Achievements:
·
Therapy and habilitation for hearing impaired
children who have undergone cochlear implants. Children are
referred from
Delhi
,
Hyderabad
,
Agra
, Pune,
Surat
, Ahmedabad,
Baroda
,
Rajkot
,
Nasik
, Ankleshwar, Gorukhpur, Bikeneer,
Jodhpur
,Jaipur,
Dhulia
, Satara, Chiplun,
Calcutta
,
Chennai
,
Sri Lanka
,
Dubai
,
Saudi Arabia
,
Nairobi
,
Mozambique
,
Thailand
and
Pakistan
.
·
Workshops are conducted for training teachers, therapists,
audiologists,
professionals and parents from a number of cities. We also
train qualified primary school teachers who wish to
specialise in training hearing impaired children
·
All
the children presently at Aured are integrated into regular
schools.
Early
Intervention – 0-3 years
Audiological Management and Hearing Aid
selection
·
Audiograms & mapping for C I recipients
conducted on premises.
·
AURED has a well-stocked library with the
latest books on AVA, as well as audio and video cassettes
and are regularly updated..
This enables teachers and parents to update their
knowledge on new technology and on the amazing possibilities
now available in this field.
·
Free medical advice & or attention from
the eminent doctors, attached to the
Centre in an honorary capacity.
·
Hearing Aid Bank and a loan facility for
Cochlear Implant
·
Distant learning via e mail conducted.
·
Teaching aids and books developed by AURED,
specific to AVT are made available and can be used by all
parents and therapists irrespective of what language the
child is taught in. These aids follow the development stages
of AVT.
·
A CCTV system for central monitoring of
therapy rooms, to enable visitors, parents, therapists to
view sessions without disturbing the child.
·
Taking
AVT to the villages
·
Certificate
Of Recognition from World bank
Projects
on the Anvil:
·
AURED by taking its particular expertise into
rural areas and setting up a pilot project in rural
Maharashtra
, will be fulfilling its vision
of making services work for poor people.
·
AURED has been approached to help set up
Centres in other countries and cities in
India
, and has started the process.
·
Developing
CD Roms for teaching, keeping within the parameters of AVT - A pilot project was
done to determine the practicality of developing CD Roms
that could be used in conjunction with auditory verbal
therapy. Based
on the findings of this project and other conceptual notes,
a platform has been outlined for a package of teaching aids
including CDRoms, flash cards, and instructional booklet.
These would be structured as lessons with
illustrations and animations. This package will be of great
assistance to outstation children who cannot attend regular
biweekly sessions and can be translated into any language.
- Teacher
Training Project
Impact India Foundation - an International
Initiative Against Avoidable Disablement – which is
promoted by UNDP, UNICEF & the WHO in association
with the Government of India, has approached the Aured
to conduct a Teacher Training Project
to help teachers identity students suffering with
hearing problems and help in management of the same.
- Adopt
a Child scheme: Fees at Aured are charged on a
sliding scale, but since the majority of children come
from impoverished backgrounds, the income generated is
minimal. Aured survives almost entirely on donations of
money and equipment. To help these children, Aured has
begun the Adopt a
Child scheme encouraging both Corporates and
Individuals to adopt a particular child and monitor the
child’s progress through correspondence with both the
child and the organization.
How you can help:
By
contributing to our corpus
Invest
in individual projects
Contribute
an annual sum of Rs.15,000/- . This will subsidise the cost
of individual
therapy and provide a years supply of hearing aid batteries
for a single child.
Sponsor
a pair of hearing aids. These may cost between 60,000 –
1,30,000/- per pair, depending on the child’s audiological
requirements. Hearing aids of the highest quality are
required to enable children develop listening skills.
Sponsor
a Therapist. Rs.10,000/-
per month
Sponsor
a Workshop.
Travel,
Accommodation, Venue, Fees for Participating Professionals,
and Organising Expenses.
