Balavidyalaya School for Young Deaf Children Organised an International Conference on Parenting Deaf and Hard Of Hearing Children - ‘Listen from Infancy & Talk for a Lifetime’
The conference is to bring together policy makers, special educators, speech therapists, audiologists, doctors, psychologists, social workers engaged in the field of deafness and parents of children with hearing difficulty . Chennai 19 December2019 : Balavidyalaya the School for Young Deaf Children organized a two-day International Conference on Parenting Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children. The conference was inaugurated by Dr.Suni Mathew, Director, Ali Yavar Jung National Institute of Speech & Hearing Disabilities, Mumbai in the august presence of Dr.Christine Yoshinaga Itano, Research Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado, USA and Dr. Ratna, Former Director, AIISH, Mysore &AYJNISHD, Mumbai. Deafness in young children interrupts the developmental process for acquiring spoken language normally observed in hearing infants. Where deafness is significant and permanent, the consequences of early failure to develop communication, language, a...