• With the help of our donors, our students now have 2-Phonak digital hearing aids from Switzerland. Since technology is transforming the way the deaf adjust to the hearing world, most notably in the form of cochlear ear implants and digital hearing aids, we can restore significant easures of hearing, especially in young recipients a great step forward in hearing rehabilitation.
   
• Young hearing-impaired people will be very well integrated into hearing society. The next nearest audiology facility to Hearing & Speech Centre (HSC) is in Islamabad, which is at a distance of 3 hours from Abbottabad. HSC is working to set up its own in-house Audiologist Lab and Clinic Services to improve early diagnosis of hearing loss. This is achieved using audiometry accessible in a wider range of settings; Hearing tests, hearing aids repair and earmoulds facility to increase the availability and cost effective maintenance of such vital devices.
• HSC now offers a curriculum of upto 10th grade is recognized and affiliated with the Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Abbottabad.
• We as a developing nation must face the challenge of managing a team of well qualified teachers. In 2009 the teacher-parents coordination and teacher training programs have been restructured according to particular needs and better future prospects.
• Due to the growing number of children, the school’s building project is a high priority. It will create a total educational environment including the school, residential facilities, and extracurricular programs with interdisciplinary teams planning for each student’s social, emotional, academic and physical development and will unlock the future prospects to students and staff members.
• By establishing a close collaboration with M/s Habib University Foundation in Karachi, we see a further positive step towards more knowledgeable and skillful teachers introduced into every classroom.
• HSC provides services to children who are deaf maximizing their individual strengths and develop necessary to foster life-long learning. During 2009 our common goals with relevant in the field.
• We are truly committed to develop a skilled teaching program with the help of Swiss-Pakistani professionals to restore our educational system. This provides further job opportunities and better prospects of life to our young people coming out of colleges and universities. 4