By Mohan Kayaka By 2050, nearly 2.5 billion people are projected to have some degree of hearing loss as per a recent World Health Organisation’s (WHO) report. In India, 63 million people (6.3%) suffer from significant auditory loss and four in every 1,000 children are suffering from severe to profound hearing loss. For children diagnosed…
Mysore/Mysuru: Marking World Autism Day today, the city’s All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) will be conducting a month-long awareness programmes starting from Apr.2. AIISH’s Speech Language therapist Dr. Jayashree C. Shanbal said that speech difficulty among children even after five years of birth, loneliness, slow learning are early symptoms of Autism. Noting…
Mysore/Mysuru: The Covid vaccination programme for staff and students of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) was held from Jan.27 to 29. During the 3-day vaccination programme, nearly 700 staff and students were vaccinated. N. Parimala, who is the senior most employee and also Assistant Registrar of the Institute, was the first to…
Mysore/Mysuru: All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), Mysuru, has organised a live phone-in programme on Jan. 22 between 2 pm and 3 pm on the topic: “Middle ear infections: Can they be prevented or treated?” The Resource Persons are: Dr. T. K. Prakash, Associate Professor, Department of ENT, AIISH and N.M. Mamatha, Assistant…
To train pre-school children with communication disorders Mysore/Mysuru: The Department of Special Education, All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), Mysuru, has been carrying out online training sessions for more than 200 children with various communication disorders since March 2020 prevailing COVID-19 pandemic situation. The Department will be providing face-to-face sessions for training pre-school…
Mysore/Mysuru: To commemorate “International Day of Persons With Disabilities (IDPWD)”, the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), Mysuru, has lined up various programmes including an Awareness Week. The awareness programme includes orientation about “IDPWD” awareness week for general public at waiting area. On Dec.3, disability-related quiz will be conducted to clients, and care-givers…
Mysore/Mysuru: Following a staff at the All India Institute Speech and Hearing (AIISH) testing positive for COVID-19, the Institute has been sealed down for three days from today. According to the Institute Director, the Institute would be sealed down for three days from Wednesday as a precautionary measure and the building would be disinfected to…
Mysore/Mysuru: MLA S.A. Ramdas said here that Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa has written to the Centre seeking to name the city’s All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) after Sri Jayachamaraja (JC) Wadiyar and Mysore Airport after Rajarishi Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar. He was speaking as the chief guest at the 136th birth anniversary celebration…
Mysore/Mysuru: Director of All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) Mysuru Dr. M. Pushpavathi, through the Information and Publicity Department’s Facebook page, went live and addressed the parents of specially-abled children and suggested ways to tend to these children at home. “With the lockdown in place, it is the need of the hour for…
AIISH Director Dr. Pushpavathi warns parents Mysuru/Mysore: All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH) Director Dr. M. Pushpavathi has cautioned parents against ignoring any speech and hearing impairment in their wards. She was speaking at ‘Sakshama’ District Convention organised at ‘Madhavakrupa’ on JLB Road here on Friday. Noting that many parents do not bother…
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