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Madras ENT Research Foundation, in association with Warren Estabrooks, director of Learning to Listen Foundation at the North York General Hospital in Canada, will conduct a workshop in Chennai this week to train about 30 medical professionals from India and Bangladesh on auditory-verbal techniques.
The training programme will enable professionals serve children and adults with severe to profound, hearing impairment.
Estabrooks is here to conduct the training programme and he is accompanied by Holly McDonell, one of the first few persons to receive a 'cochlear implant', a device when placed inside the ear, stimulates the hearing nerve fibres and makes a person recognise sound, listen and also help to speak.
'I went to a normal school, participated in various debates, drama and school bands. In fact, I have always done whatever I wanted to do', said Holly at a press meet here yesterday.
Victoria McDonell, her mother, said that in about two months time, with the help of professionals, Holly started responding and was able to listen, understand and speak. Now, Holly is 23 years of age and is a graduate from the University of Sydney in Economics and Law.
Estabrooks, while speaking to presspersons, said she was a living example of how committed professionals can help hearing-impaired children learn to listen and speak. He is also expected to speak at a public meeting here today, from 3 pm to 5.30 pm, at the Little Flower Convent and School for the Blind, GN Chetty Road, on the opportunities available to make deaf children have voices of their own.
Dr Mohan Kameswaran, Cochlear Implant Surgeon, said the cost of the implant ranges from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh rupees, and added that the technology would bring a world of difference to people with mild to profound deafness.
Adults and children between 12 months and 17 years of age, with severe to profound hearing loss and who receive little or no useful benefit from hearing aids could benefit from the cochlear implant. The device helps communicate easily and interact comfortably with others. Trained professionals would assist people with deafness achieve this, he said.
Madras ENT Research Foundation, in association with Warren Estabrooks, director of Learning to Listen Foundation at the North York General Hospital in Canada, will conduct a workshop in Chennai this week to train about 30 medical professionals from India and Bangladesh on auditory-verbal techniques.
The training programme will enable professionals serve children and adults with severe to profound, hearing impairment.
Estabrooks is here to conduct the training programme and he is accompanied by Holly McDonell, one of the first few persons to receive a 'cochlear implant', a device when placed inside the ear, stimulates the hearing nerve fibres and makes a person recognise sound, listen and also help to speak.
'I went to a normal school, participated in various debates, drama and school bands. In fact, I have always done whatever I wanted to do', said Holly at a press meet here yesterday.
Victoria McDonell, her mother, said that in about two months time, with the help of professionals, Holly started responding and was able to listen, understand and speak. Now, Holly is 23 years of age and is a graduate from the University of Sydney in Economics and Law.
Estabrooks, while speaking to presspersons, said she was a living example of how committed professionals can help hearing-impaired children learn to listen and speak. He is also expected to speak at a public meeting here today, from 3 pm to 5.30 pm, at the Little Flower Convent and School for the Blind, GN Chetty Road, on the opportunities available to make deaf children have voices of their own.
Dr Mohan Kameswaran, Cochlear Implant Surgeon, said the cost of the implant ranges from Rs 5 lakh to Rs 10 lakh rupees, and added that the technology would bring a world of difference to people with mild to profound deafness.
Adults and children between 12 months and 17 years of age, with severe to profound hearing loss and who receive little or no useful benefit from hearing aids could benefit from the cochlear implant. The device helps communicate easily and interact comfortably with others. Trained professionals would assist people with deafness achieve this, he said.