Hearing impairment

Renowned ENT surgeon Dr Jayant Gandhi and Dr Devangi Dalal have helped underprivileged children between the ages of 1 and 20 gain access to high-quality digital hearing aids, training and support, all free of cost.

For many students, virtual learning is not a platform which they are familiar with. And in the case of children with visual and hearing impairments, it's even more difficult.

Deafness is a silent disability. Unlike poor vision, where one can easily know if he/she cannot see properly, there is no way for people to determine hearing issues early on.

The innovation with its amazing possibilities managed to bag the second prize at the MIT Innovation Challenge and will soon find financial backing for developing working prototypes.

Kingsley David, founder of the online news portal for the hearing impaired, Sign TV, is striving to bridge the gap between the hearing impaired and the able-bodied through his initiatives.

Kids with even 100 percent hearing impairment can speak fluently and be a part of mainstream society. But just providing a hearing aid is not enough. Suniye, a Delhi-based NGO, is empowering hearing impaired kids in amazing ways.

If you thought just providing hearing aids to the hearing impaired could help them hear, you thought wrong. So did Elita Almeida until she met this Kolkata-based NGO, which seems to have cracked the right model to deal with deafness in an effective way.

This peppy video starring young guns from Noida Deaf Society dancing to the tune of Pharrell Williams' "Happy" will make your day. While it's difficult enough for a person who can hear the song also to dance to it, these young performers make it look so effortless!