Project Profile
 
Project:

Cochlear implant for children with profound hearing loss, studying at CPAL’s School “Fernando Wiese Eslava”

Social Field:
Auditory-oral education for hearing impaired children.
Investment needed:
  • 1 cochlear implant $ 15,000
  • 20 cochlear implants $ 300,000
Project beneficiaries:

Children with profound hearing loss that come from socio-economic backgrounds of extreme poverty.

 
Project goals and expected impact:
  • To give children, who do not show signs of auditory improvement from the use of hearing aids, the opportunity to have an adequate auditory speech perception.  
  • To improve the auditory speech perception in children with profound hearing loss, with an adequate program of auditory training that is fundamental for the Auditory – Oral Methodology. 
  • To stimulate the acquisition of spontaneous language in hearing impaired babies and children .
  • To promote an adequate socio-emotional development that will allow the children to satisfactorily adapt to society.
  • To achieve early integration hearing impaired children to regular schools.
 
ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION AND THE PROJECT LEADER
Country:
Peru
Organization:

“Fernando Wiese Eslava” School of the Association “Centro Peruano de Audición, Language y Aprendizaje” (CPAL).
Mission:

We are a school that offers high quality auditory - oral education to babies, children, and adolescents of both sexes with hearing loss and average cognitive skills. With the help of hearing aids and specific and up-to-date methodology, our goal is to achieve early integration of our students into regular schools.  We incorporate the family to the values of the institution and we work towards achieving awareness and sensitivity in society in search for integration with equality.
Organization’s Sponsors:
  • Centro Peruano de Audición, Lenguaje y Aprendizaje
  • Private Companies in Peru
Other projects/activities of the organization
  • Audiologic evaluation to children
  • Hearing screenings to children in pre-school and school age, at a national level
  • Hearing screenings to hospitalized high risk children
  • Training teachers of children with hearing loss at national level
  • Prevention of hearing loss
Project Leader:

Maria Matzumura – General Director of Centro Peruano de Audición, Lenguaje y Aprendizaje (CPAL)
 
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