In 1986, a young teacher of the deaf gave up her job to start her own centre. It was in the kitchen of a south Mumbai flat with just a couple of children enrolled for therapy. But in that little space, she found the freedom to experiment with auditory aural therapy, which was then a new method of helping profoundly deaf children learn to speak and live normal lives.
Aziza Tyabji (later she added Hydari to her name) had spent almost a decade teaching in schools for the deaf and she could see that they needed to reinvent themselves. . .