Aziza Tyabji Hydari was teaching in schools for deaf children for nearly a decade when she left her job in 1986. The centre she set up, Aural Education for the Deaf (AURED), was an experiment with auditory aural therapy.
A cochlear implant or a hearing aid is not enough because the child doesn’t recognise sounds. At AURED, therapists help develop recognition of sounds and reactivate the circuit between the ear and the brain.
The leap she took has been hugely beneficial for children with hearing disability. She began in her kitchen, but now AURED is a proper facility. . .
