Karnataka Handicapped Welfare Association

Aim To provide rehabilitation services for the hearing impaired, especially for the underprivileged, and those in rural areas.

Constituency Served

urban and rural children with hearing disability, 4 1/2 -18 years


Details of Work

KHWA has two residential schools in Bangalore and Hassan for 350 hearing impaired children, with computer training from Std 8 upwards. It has diagnosis and assessment camps in rural and semi-rural areas. It provides training for parents, and has a ten-month diploma course for teachers of the hearing impaired. It distributes hearing aids free to economically disadvantaged persons, and offers job placement services. It also has boarding facilities for 50 orphan children.

Fact File

Karnataka Handicapped Welfare Association

    Status

  • Society

    • Category

  • Disability

    • Sub Category

  • Speech and Hearing Disability

    • Level of Work of the Organization

  • Local, State

    • Establishment

  • 1979

    • Focus

  • hearing disability, teacher training, school, home

    • Help Welcome

  • books, toys, donations, blankets
Contact Information

Mr K M Patil , Secretary , Mon-Fri 9.15-3.15, Sat 9.15-12.30
CA-6, behind Mini Bal Bhavan, Jeevanbhima Nagar Bangalore- 560075.
Ph : 25262783