Welcome to Ashray Akruti !

Ashray Akruti is a registered nonprofit, non-religious organization working for hearing-impaired children and school dropouts (children without hearing impairment) from slums in Hyderabad, India. In India, every year 25,000 children are born with hearing impairment, which, being an unseen disability is difficult to recognize and doesn’t evoke much support. Recognizing the need to provide fruitful special education facilities to children with hearing impairment, “Little Angels School for the Deaf” was founded by Ashray Akruti in 1996. The school started with five children and now caters to the educational needs of 137 children. Since our inception in 1996, more than 75 hearing-impaired children have been integrated into mainstream schools and colleges. Hearing-impaired children from outside Hyderabad avail residential facilities provided by Ashray Akruti.

At Ashray Akruti, children are accepted irrespective of cast, creed, and religion. The main purpose of the school is to promote inclusion by teaching the hearing-impaired children to communicate without any reliance on sign language, and by providing education to underprivileged children who learn alongside them.

Vision

Empowering hearing-impaired and underprivileged children of Andhra Pradesh to use their innate capacities to reach an optimum level of independence- both personally and professionally; thus transforming a large group of people depending on lifelong support from the State into a group of healthy, positive contributors to the economy.

Mission

We at Ashray Akruti believe in the dignity and potential of every child- with or without hearing impairment. Our mission is to integrate them into mainstream schools so that they can claim their rightful place as equal citizens in future and in return contribute to our society actively.

Core Values

1. Protect Rights and Dignity of the child
2. Quality in services rendered
3. Transparency

Our unique teaching model

• Inclusive classes of hearing impaired and underprivileged children
• Early learning intervention from the age of 3
• Special auditory training and speech therapy for students with hearing loss
• Training in English and mother tongue (Telugu/Hindi)
• Training parents for teaching children at home
• Low student-teacher ratio to ensure high individual attention to children