Project Profile
 
Project:

Scholarships for hearing impaired children studying at CPAL’s School “Fernando Wiese Eslava”.
Social Field:

Auditory-oral education for hearing impaired children.
Investment needed:
  • Annual Scholarship for 1 child:         US$ 2,500
  • Annual Scholarship for 100 children: US$ 250,000
Project beneficiaries:

Disadvantaged children suffering from profound hearing impairment.

 
Project goals and expected impact:
  • Stimulate acquisition of spontaneous language skills in hearing impaired infants and children.
  • Provide a flexible and individualized learning program focused on the attainment of skills for children to reach their maximum potential.
  • Promote an adequate socio-emotional development for the children to adapt successfully to their communities and overall society. 
  • Achieve early integration of hearing impaired children to the main school system.
  • Support the families of children with hearing loss by providing values, knowledge and training to enable them to participate in their children’s educational process.
  • Provide informative campaigns to promote the prevention of deafness.
  • Raise awareness about the hearing impaired children’s community.
 
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION AND THE PROJECT LEADER
Country:
Peru
Organization:

Centro Peruano de Audición, Lenguage y Aprendizaje (CPAL): “Fernando Wiese Eslava” School”
Mission:

“ Fernando Wiese Eslava School” offers high quality auditory - oral education to infants, children, and adolescents suffering from hearing loss and poor cognitive skills management. The goal is to achieve early integration of students into the main school system. To this end, the School employs the use of hearing aids and specialized up-to-date training methodologies. The School also incorporates the respective families in the education process and develops awareness raising campaigns about non-discriminatory practices.
Organization’s Sponsors:

CPAL
Private sector donors
Other projects/activities of the organization
  • Children audiotory evaluation
  • Hearing screenings for pre-school and school age children, at a national level
  • Hearing screenings to hospitalized high risk children
  • Training o f teachers of hearing impaired children at national level
  • Prevention of hearing loss
Project Leader:

Maria Matzumura
 
Contact information:

Martin Pizarro 172
Valle Hermoso, Monterrico
Lima 33 - Peru
Telf: (511) 7069040
Fax:  (511) 7069050
postmaster@cpal.edu.pe
www.cpal.edu.pe