The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : School for deaf celebrates 80th annual day

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Wednesday, Jan 24, 2007
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Tamil Nadu

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School for deaf celebrates 80th annual day

Staff Reporter

Doctors will soon visit schools for audiology tests: Minister

DANCING IN TANDEM: Students of the Little Flower Convent for the Deaf performing at their annual day programme on Monday. — Photo: K.N. Muralitharan .

CHENNAI : The 80th annual day celebrations of Little Flower Convent Higher Secondary School for the Deaf were held on Monday, with a variety programme by students.

Dr. Poongothai, Minister for Social Welfare, who commented on the performance of the disabled children saying "I am lost for words," noted that soon national identity cards would be issued for people with disabilities, after which children need not visit the Government Hospital for undergoing tedious audiology tests as the doctors themselves would be the visiting the schools.

The Government was planning to provide a subsidy for downtrodden children to get cochlear implantation surgery. She applauded the school management for helping the disabled children overcome their disabilities and assured the parents that their children were under safe hands.

Describing Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi as a brand ambassador for the disabled, she said the present government had undertaken a number of welfare measures for the disabled and referred to the setting up of a Special Commission for the Disabled as a case in point. Indira M. Kameshwaran, Executive Director and Correspondent, Speech and Hearing Institute, and industrialist Malaiappan participated.

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