Success Stories

Ravi Teja

Ravi Teja was born with profound hearing loss. His disability was identified only when he was 10 months old. His family was quite shocked by the discovery and was unsure about his future, and how to educate him.
They enrolled him in a special school in Hyderabad when he was 3 years old. After 4 years of training there, the improvement in his speech was almost nil. That’s when Ravi was enrolled in Ashray Akruti’s Little Angels School for the Deaf. Within weeks of his admission here, there was a stark improvement in his speech. He got intensive speech therapy in school and we trained his mother as well to teach him at home. As a result of the special attention and therapy, Ravi Teja secured 76% marks in 10^th class Board Exams. He went on to do his intermediate studies in the MPC and completed the course with an aggregate score of 60%.

Ravi is now pursuing the engineering course at Swami Vivekananda Institute of Technology in Secunderabad, where he studies without special inputs and with normal students.

Ganga Devi

She hails from Podalakuru village, situated about 500 kilometers from Hyderabad. Her parents were shocked to learn that their daughter was born with profound hearing loss. With a minimal annual income, they had no access to any facilities in their village to educate her or develop her thinking. Then they learnt about Ashray Akruti and they enrolled her in the Little Angels School for the Deaf in 1997, at the age of 6.
At Ashray Akruti, we helped Gangadevi to read, write and talk without the use of sign language. She had no speech skills when she joined our school. The special inputs here helped her progress in academics and also communicate without sign language. She studied till 7^th standard at the Little Angels school, and then went back to continue her education. Unable to get proper guidance and coaching at her local school, she found it difficult to continue her education and came back to Ashray Akruti. With the continuing special inputs and help from our faculty, Gangadevi cleared her 10^th class exams with an aggregate score of 70%.
Gangadevi is now pursuing her polytechnic course (E.C.E.), pursuing a dream which her parents would not have dared to dream 11 years ago. She is confident that she will complete this course even though she no special inputs or special coaching at her polytechnic college and looks forward to a bright future ahead.

 

Mohammad Monish

Monish was born in Kolkata with profound hearing loss, which in turn affected his speech development. Having heard about Ashray Akruti, a family friend of theirs  recommended that Monish be enrolled here for special education. He was given admission in the school in 1998, at the age of eight years.
When Monish joined Ashray Akruti, he had no speech and language skills and the sounds he made were incomprehensible. The special education and intensive speech therapy at Ashray Akruti has helped Monish to progress immensely academically as well as in speech and language. He is now able to speak in sentences and is able to communicate with others. He is very good in academics and is a keen learner. His favorite subject is Science.

He loves to play with other children and his favorite game is chess.  He has been scoring 80% and above  in all the tests conducted. This year he received Helen Keller’s Students award given by the Deaf Way Foundation for his strong academic performance.
Monish has probably found some of the open doors in his life with help from Ashray Akruti…doors hitherto unopened…doors which have an enriching, fruitful and successful life behind them.

Shreya Lal

 

 

Shreya suffers from ‘profound hearing loss’. She has been studying at Ashray Akruti since 2006. Earlier she studied in Vidyaranya High School. After getting enrolled in Ashray Akruti, she got the proper Audio-Verbal training she required and was taught to speak rather than communicate in sign language. Shreya’s favorite subject is Maths and she is very good in studies. This is evident from the fact that she passed the 2009 SSC Board exams with distinction (73%). She is also very good in drawing and sketching. She loves to make friends and is a very good swimmer.

 

Presently she is pursuing her Intermediate (Commerce stream) from Villa Marie College and also learning Multimedia & Computer Animation in the recently launched Multimedia Training center of Ashray Akruti. She is very hard working girl and her hearing handicap didn’t come in her way to pursue her dreams. Her ambition is to become a software engineer.

 

 

M. Jupiter

 

 

Jupiter’s family belongs to Kadapa (about 450 Km away from Hyderabad). They shifted to Hyderabad for the sake of providing better education to their son. When Jupiter was three years old, his parents came to know about his hearing impairment. This left them in a state of shock. They enrolled him in Ashray Akruti. He studied here for three years from Std. III to V. Later his parents enrolled him into a normal school as they thought that he could be integrated into a mainstream school. But they were not very satisfied with the new school and with the progress of their child. Then again they got him enrolled in Ashray Akruti.

 

After getting Intensive Speech Therapy in Ashray Akruti, he started speaking few words and is improving eventually. He is a keen learner and is very good in academics. From Std. I to VII he studied in Telugu medium and from Std VIII onwards, he chose to switch over to English medium.

 

He wants to become an engineer and aims to study in IIT. He secured 70% in his SSC Board examination in the year 2009. Presently he is doing his IIIT from Rajiv Gandhi University, Krishna Distt.