"Project for Improving Newborn Hearing Examination and Developing Education for Children with Hearing Impairment in Yerevan"

 

December 7, 2009 Mr. Iida, First Secretary of the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Armenia as a witness on behalf of the Japanese Embassy and Mrs. Tamara Manukyan, Co-chair of the NGO "Havat" signed a Grant Contract launching a new project titled "Project for Improving Newborn Hearing Examination and Developing Education for Children with Hearing Impairment in Yerevan".

The goal of the project is to provide

  • The Maternity Hospitals of Republic of Armenia with a equipment for neonatal hearing screening
  • Audiological centre of "Arabkir " JMC with sound isolation room
  • 40 under school age children with hearing problems in integration centre of "Arabkir" JMC and 140 children with hearing loss in special N 15 with FM systems

OAE devices which have been purchased step by step will be delivered among maternity houses. Already two specialists from two maternity hospitals passed training courses to get capacity to work on that equipment. We are going to pass them two OAE devices. Every month at those maternity hospitals up to 500 newborns will be observed. Detected newborns with hearing loss will be under supervision of specialists from medical centers. At those centers they will get appropriate help, such as hearing aids and lessons of speech- therapists. It will improve their normal speech development and give them opportunity to be integrated at ordinary schools and society. Next two months we are going to organize training of another two specialists from other maternity hospitals.

 
   
 
FM systems are already passed to special school for deaf children (one telephone and 12 receivers) and to integration centre of "Arabkir" MC. 140 children with hearing impairment study at school. FM system is set up in a class room, were they pass a special subject: speech development. There are both group and individual classes. In the centre there was sent two telephones and 14 receivers. 5 teachers and 40 children of pre- school age use those devices in both group and individual classes.
  
 
 

Sound-isolation room. All children who come for hearing testing will be observed in that room. Every year up to 200 first-visit children will be observed as well as 900 children with hearing injures, who are under our consistent observation.

Beneficiaries of the project are all that children with hearing loss, who were mentioned above as well as their parents and families. Of course our society will benefit from it also, because can save human resources.

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