DEPwD to organise Cochlear Implant Awareness Programme in Faridabad

• Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment will organize a ‘Cochlear Implant Awareness Programme on 6^thMay, 2018 at Faridabad.
• Under ADIP Scheme of the Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (Divyangjan), there is provision for Cochlear Implant surgeries of Hearing Impaired children’s up to the age of 5 years at the cost of Rs.6.00 Lakhs per unit. After Successful Cochlear Implant Surgeries, the child is able to hear and speak like normal Children. Government has empanelled 172 Hospitals (both Government & Private) throughout the country for the surgeries.
• Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for Speech and Hearing Disabilities (AYNISHD), Mumbai is the Nodal Agency for Cochlear Implant Surgeries. During the last 4 years (2014-15 to 2017-18) 1149 Cochlear Implant Surgeries have been conducted successfully.

• A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted electronic device that provides a sense of sound to a person who is profoundly deaf or severely hard of hearing in both ears; as of 2014 they had been used experimentally in some people who had acquired deafness in one ear after learning how to speak.
• Cochlear implants bypass the normal hearing process; they have a sound processor that resides on the outside of the skin (and generally worn behind the ear) which contains microphones, electronics, battery, and a coil which transmits a signal to the implant. The implant has a coil to receive signals, electronics, and an array of electrodes which is placed into the cochlea, which stimulate the cochlear nerve