Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 30: Brett Lee, former Australian cricketer and Cochlear’s Global Hearing Ambassador, was in the city of temples, today to create awareness about the Universal Newborn Hearing Screening (UNHS) programme.
Dr Navneet Gupta renowned Audiologist and Speech Pathologist, Assistant Professor, Department of ENT at ASCOMS & Hospital, Chief Consultant at JK Electronic Ears, Prime Speech & Hearing Clinic, while talking on this occasion said, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), hearing loss is the most widespread sensory deficit disorder in human beings globally today.
He said the challenges for a child born with hearing loss are manifold. It is proven that a child with hearing loss cannot develop normal speech and language abilities. This hampers the child’s learning at school, college, constraints job opportunities and limit his world in few yards.
A cochlear implant is the only solution that can benefit children with severe or profound hearing loss. Unlike hearing aids, which simply amplify sound, a cochlear implant system bypasses the parts of your ear that no longer work properly and delivers sound in the form of electrical signals to the hearing nerve directly.
Cochlear implants are not new to India anymore. They have helped countless children to overcome their hearing loss and lead successfully in different walks of life. This noble cochlear implant program at JK Electronic Ears & Prime Speech & Hearing Clinic was started in 2000. Under its social initiative, JK Electronic Ears(JKEE) have been organising Hearing Screening camps in remote areas of Jammu and Kashmir so that people even from rural areas could also get benefit of newer advancements in Hearing health care and through its periodic campaigning , JKEE has been able to create an awareness base among rural masses about hearing related problems and its intervention. Till date, over 80 number of cochlear implant surgeries have been conducted through the JK Electronic Ears with excellent hearing and speech outcomes in the implanted patients.
JK Electronic Ears, Prime Speech & Hearing Clinic already started a surgical programme at Jammu with ASCOMS Hospital last year and so for 10 cochlear implant surgeries have been done for both paediatric and geriatric population under aegis of ENT department of ASCOMS.
Dr Navneet Gupta also, said, “early identification and early intervention of hearing loss is crucial in the development of normal speech and hearing skills among young children.
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