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As a group of hearing impaired students attempt to gain communication skills in a voice therapy class, the clatter of their mechanical learning aids interrupts the sound of English syllables.
This is the typical scene at one of the learning sessions being held in the Deaf Biblical Ministry, a special school for the hearing impaired at Dimapur in Nagaland.
Selected for an award as “the best school for the hearing impaired last year by the President of India, the institution aims at making its students self-reliant by teaching them vocations.
Yanger Walling, who set up the school with his wife in 1987, recognised the need for an exclusive school for the hearing impaired in north-east India.
Walling says that he believes in the innate strength of the disabled and does not see them as less than normal people in any way.The children are taught the same syllabus prescribed by the State Education Department for normal schools, in the sign language.
“They are called disabled but they are definitely able in many ways. We find it very interesting to work with them. When we work with them, we learn of many talents that remain hidden in them. We try to motivate them. They can’t compete with normal people but in some ways they do much better than normal people,” Walling says.
Typing, weaving and tailoring are among some of the vocations that comprise the curriculam taught in this school. The first four batches of students have successfully passed the secondary school examination.
We have a weaving unit here. All the workers are our own trained people who are either disabled or hearing impaired. They are doing very good work. We get orders from the Government and high officials. We weave clothes for our own use like bags and cushion covers. We sell them here and have a good local demand for our products, says Walling.
Walling, who has received special training in dealing with hearing impaired in the United States, runs the organisation with the contributions from friends and well- wishers.
As a group of hearing impaired students attempt to gain communication skills in a voice therapy class, the clatter of their mechanical learning aids interrupts the sound of English syllables.
This is the typical scene at one of the learning sessions being held in the Deaf Biblical Ministry, a special school for the hearing impaired at Dimapur in Nagaland.
Selected for an award as “the best school for the hearing impaired last year by the President of India, the institution aims at making its students self-reliant by teaching them vocations.
Yanger Walling, who set up the school with his wife in 1987, recognised the need for an exclusive school for the hearing impaired in north-east India.
Walling says that he believes in the innate strength of the disabled and does not see them as less than normal people in any way.The children are taught the same syllabus prescribed by the State Education Department for normal schools, in the sign language.
“They are called disabled but they are definitely able in many ways. We find it very interesting to work with them. When we work with them, we learn of many talents that remain hidden in them. We try to motivate them. They can’t compete with normal people but in some ways they do much better than normal people,” Walling says.
Typing, weaving and tailoring are among some of the vocations that comprise the curriculam taught in this school. The first four batches of students have successfully passed the secondary school examination.
We have a weaving unit here. All the workers are our own trained people who are either disabled or hearing impaired. They are doing very good work. We get orders from the Government and high officials. We weave clothes for our own use like bags and cushion covers. We sell them here and have a good local demand for our products, says Walling.
Walling, who has received special training in dealing with hearing impaired in the United States, runs the organisation with the contributions from friends and well- wishers.