State Commissioner for Persons with Disabilities K.S. Lathakumari on Thursday said that the Department of Health and Family Welfare had been requested to establish early intervention centres across the State under the National Health Mission (NHM).
So far, the department had set up such centres in Mysuru, Hassan, Mandya, Mangaluru, Kodagu (in Madikeri), Raichur, Shivamogga, Davangere districts and also in Bengaluru city (at Victoria Hospital). In the eight districts, the centres had come up in the district hospitals, she added.
Speaking after inaugurating the International Association of Communication Sciences’ International Audiology Conference at the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing here, she said the initiative of early intervention centre was launched in 2021-22 for providing speech training for hearing impaired children below four years by establishing training centres.
