Would you like to help the speech impaired? Institute of Career Studies has the details
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The Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for the Hearing Handicapped (AYJNIHH), Mumbai, was established in August 1983, under the Union ministry of social justice and empowerment. The institute has regional centres in Calcutta, New Delhi, Secundarabad and Bhubaneswar. It offers a bachelors degree in hearing, language and speech, two postgraduate courses in audiology, speech and language pathology, and hearing, language and speech, as well as BEd programmes for the hearing impaired. Apart from the degrees, the centres also offer long-term training programmes and provide clinical, outreach and extension services.

AYJNIHH is also in charge of the District Disability Rehabilitation Centres — started under the Gramin Punarvasan Yojana launched in 2000 — in the districts of Kolhapur and Buldhana in Maharashtra; Gangtok in Sikkim; Surat, Rajkot and Jamnagar in Gujarat; Jalpaiguri and Murshidabad in West Bengal and Bambolim in Goa. The objective of the programme is to provide rehabilitation to people with sensory (hearing and vision), physical and mental disabilities.

The notification for admission to AYJNIHH appears in all leading national dailies in March or April. The prospectus and application form can be collected either from the institute (K.C. Marg, Bandra Reclamation, Bandra West, Mumbai-400050) or the regional centres in person or by post on payment of Rs 500 (Rs 300/ for SC / ST / PH candidates) in cash or through a demand draft favouring the director, AYJNIHH, Mumbai.

For further details, log on to www.ayjnihh. nic.in.

Eligibility:-
For a bachelors degree in audiology, speech and language pathology (BASLP), candidates need to have completed Plus Two from a recognised university or board with physics, chemistry and biology or computer science. Applicants should have completed 17 years of age on January 1 of the year of examination.

Entrance exam:-
The exam is held in June at centres in Mumbai, Calcutta, Chennai, Delhi, Guwahati and Mysore. Fifty per cent of the seats in the BASLP course at Mumbai is reserved for candidates who make the grade in the Maharashtra Common Entrance Test (MH-CET). Admission to BASLP at the Secunderabad centre is on merit basis.

Pattern of exam:-
The (MH-CET) consists of objective-type questions of the Plus Two level on physics, chemistry and biology.

How to prepare:-
It is important to be have all the concepts clear. Practise solving objective-type questions within a time limit. Since the syllabus for the exam is similar to that of Plus Two, it makes sense to dovetail your studies rather than pursue divergent tracks. For example, for home work, practise questions on atoms, gravitation, light, sound, and the circulatory, respiratory and nervous systems while the topics are being taught in class.

Some of the books you can refer to are Mathematics by M.C. Khanna and Tata McGraw Hill publishers, Physics 10 + 2 by H.C. Verma and Chemistry by O.P. Agarwal and Tata McGraw Hill publishers. For biology, consult books on the subject by M.P. Kaushik and Ramesh Gupta. For general knowledge, you could prepare from books by O.P. Khanna and Maniram Agarwal.

Sources: The Telegraph (Kolkata, India)