China Strives to Help Deaf Kids Recover Hearing

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Monday, March 04, 2002

China Strives to Help Deaf Kids Recover Hearing

China has devoted no fewer efforts to helping deaf children and treating their handicap than developed countries since March 3 was designated "National Ear Care Day" two years ago.

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China has devoted no fewer efforts to helping deaf children and treating their handicap than developed countries since March 3 was designated "National Ear Care Day" two years ago.

Li Xue, a seven-year-old deaf girl being cared for at the hearing recovery center for deaf children in this capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, can now enunciate greetings to guests clearly and even recite a nursery rhyme.

According to Han Yougui, the center's director, Li Xue is now able to communicate with others in simple sentences, following a period of special hearing training, which started last February.

Currently, the center has 12 teachers, who look after deaf children full time.

When Guo Ke, a senior manager of a Danish company engaged in developing hearing aid technology, visited the center, he expressed satisfaction at the progress the children were making, and commended the teachers.

Han Yougui said that the center pioneered a special administration system combining nursing, medical treatment and language training.

Now the system has been spread all over the country, ensuring that the average recovery period can be reduced to two years, half the state-stipulated time.

The new system has also enhanced the enrollment rate of deaf children from the former 16.5 percent to 60 percent in Heilongjiang.

Some 3,500 deaf children in Heilongjiang have received hearing recovery training, accounting for 5.7 percent of the total deaf children in the province.

Statistics show that China now has 20.75 million people disabled in hearing and language, and deaf children under seven years old number 800,000.

Experts consider that the majority of deaf children can recover their hearing and participate fully in social life by wearing hearing aids or receiving scientific language training.

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