STCI’s (Save The Children India) work focuses on vulnerable children, empowering them with education, protection and skilling. All our initiatives focus on early interventions and system strengthening as the two main programmatic pillars.

Our Disability programme include a school for the hearing impaired and children with intellectual disabilities, and Dhvani, An Early Intervention Program ensuring early identification, intervention and mainstreaming of children with hearing loss.

 Earlier in 2020, the Canterbury Christ Church University, UK in collaboration with SCHOOL for Development and Impact, a research organization, studied the Dhvani programme to identify its potential for impact and scale. Several relevant findings and specific recommendations have emerged, that enables Dhvani to empower agencies and ensure that children with hearing impairment are identified and get treatment and therapy as early as possible. Please find attached a concise report on the top line findings and also the main report.

At the Round Table scheduled on the 4^th of December 2020, a select group of experts and practitioners have been invited to discuss perspectives on disability, international models in early interventions, and models for scale.

The format is as follows:

1. Each speaker is allocated 5-7 minutes on a specific topic
2. 15 minutes for engagement and discussion post this

We request you to present your views on:  “Relevance of studying Early Intervention to inform Policy and Practice”

We request you to share a high-resolution photo and a short profile description to enable appropriate communication material to be developed for the event.  

Details of the STCI Virtual Round Table

Topic: Scaling an Early Intervention Programme for Children with Hearing Loss

Date: Friday, 4^th December 2020 

Time: 12 noon to 2pm  (5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, IST)

Itinerary

Participants	Topics	Timings
Farida Bagasrawala  Save The Children India	Welcome & Introduction	5:30 – 5:35pm
Esther Coren Canterbury Christ Church University	Relevance of studying Early Intervention to inform Policy and Practice	5:35 – 5:55 pm
Dr. Benazir Patil SCHOOL for Development Impact	Top line findings and Recommendations of the study – ‘Mapping the service journey of children with hearing impairment from initiation to successful integration into mainstream schools’
Dr. Gaurav Gupta WHO	WHO’s perspective on Disability, with a focus on Hearing Loss	5: 55 – 6:45 pm
Dr. Sumedh Andurkar RBSK	Hearing Disability within the context of RBSK in Maharashtra
Padmashree Dr Milind Kirtane Hinduja Hospital	Strengthening of public health system to address Early Identification & Intervention in communities
Dr. Suni Mathew AYJNISHD (D)	Gaps in Existent models in the Early Identification & Intervention
Paige Stringer Global Foundation	Challenges & Enablers in Early Identification & Intervention, to achieve scale
Ramesh Padmanabhan, Armman	Scaling through technology and government collaboration
Dr. Chandrashekhar Dabhadkar Academy of Indian Paediatrics	Closing the Loop: From Practitioner to Parent
Ritu Nakra Hear Me Speak
	Discussion	6:45 to 7.15pm
Havovi Wadia Save The Children India	Vote of Thanks	7.15 – 7. 20pm