We provide a well-rounded educational program that offers a wide range of services for our children, teachers and parents. Since the beginning, our project has attracted field specialists from Switzerland and Germany. We consult them frequently for staff training and guidance. In order to help our teachers improve their teaching abilities, we frequently send the teachers to other institutions in order to acquaint them with alternate training methods. Such efforts have already established the Hearing and Speech Centre at Mardan. In order to promote a closer relationship between parents and hearing impaired children, Al Hoda established the Parent-Infant Coordination Program (PIC). This program's main aim is to educate parents about special education, awareness, and prevention in order to help their hearing disabled children integrate better with the rest of society. Working jointly with parents gives us additional opportunities to uplift their day-to-day living conditions, and to minimise their economic and health difficulties. Our team will work simultaneously with families to familiarise them with a specific program, which best meets their own needs as a family. Services include: * Home visits for speech/language therapy * Infant/toddler play groups * Parent support groups * Individual or family counseling * Audiological services, including a trial hearing aid program * Lending reference books, video tapes, and computer programs Family resource coordination In addition, we offer consultation and training with day care settings, networking with community and education of other children in the family, resources, and transition to school programs. Outreach Services * In-service training and consultation to other agencies * Volunteer opportunities  Staff Qualifications Our team consists of professionals involved in hearing and deaf deficiency fields with special training in: * Early Childhood Education * Speech/Language and Audiology * Counseling * English as a Second Language Equipment * Latest Computers and Software * Audiometers * Digital Hearing Aids * FM Systems * Musical Instruments  * Diverse Elec. equipment (TV, Video camera etc.) Targets Diagnoses in different areas, audiometric test and re-examination by an otologist will be some of the regular features of the program not only for monitoring purposes, but will call for more participation if the main medical institutions of the District are involved. A school library will be established in the near future to upgrade teacher and parents’ knowledge. Only the selected best literature will be provided to keep up the standard of education in Pakistan. Some of the books are already available at the school. To support the auditory-verbal education of the children, rhythmic, musical education will be incorporated in the routine to develop their hearing skills. Efforts are being made to form a support group including medical students, social workers and organisations working in the area to support the cause.

Organisation of Ear Camps in the rural areas in order to identify the hearing impaired who cannot adjust living in the cities with educational facilities for hearing impaired at an early age. We also will take active participation in the existing government schools in the rural areas. This will not only improve the overall educational standard of the children but will also help them prepare for the economic and social life in the future. We will initiate the latest computer techniques to teach and explain children, teachers and parents what quality education can do for them. We wish to give training to as many children as possible. We want to help some devoted children for higher education, since they might also take an important role in our teaching program later in their respective areas. In addition, we also provide the following facilities: * Ear moulds * Hostel facilities * Health care * Nutrition * Communication * Transportation for Pick/Drop * Tuition Fees Al Hoda Association, a non-profitable institution and voluntary welfare society, aims to do whatever may be required to educate and rehabilitate hearing-impaired children from the poorest families. Its existence totally depends on voluntary contributions, donations, membership fees, and grants to continue its services effectively. We wish to extend our facilities nationwide; to bring educational change particularly to the disabled and underprivileged people in our country. Our main goal is to provide educational facilities to all children. However, the well-off families will have to compensate the cost on their child, which will facilitate us to help educate more children. We have not yet decided how much fees have to be charged, however minimum fees will be equal to our cost on child’s education. We aim to work with parents who have the supporting duties to their children and the children belonging underprivileged families. Al-Hoda will try its best, naturally depending on the financial support of kind hearted individuals to assist as much as possible a great number of less fortunate families in our society. All of these service combined provide an excellent and enriching educational environment for all HSC’s students. We will have a full time audiologist on staff to care for the hearing concerns of our students. We work in partnership with the students and their families to conduct hearing evaluations, hearing aid selection and service. We will also make ear moulds and swim plugs, and maintain a hearing aid stock. We will providing free of charge digital hearing aids to children whose parents are unable and could not afford to purchase hearing devices their children. We believe as a principal the early identification and education of a child is as essential as a foundation of a skyscraper. This source of education is not available to most of our children, whereas 80% population of Pakistan lives in the villages. If a better quality of education is taught in the rural areas particularly to the disabled children, then they would also play a crucial and significant role in the economic growth of our country. The language as a mother tongue cannot be taught, but it can be acquired in the relations between human beings. Use of residual hearing is emphasized from the early education period. We are training our children to use their ears and listen and let them realize that he/she can survive equally like an accomplished / skilled member of the society in all respects.