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Deafness in India
Rapidly Developing Deaf Community

By Jamie Berke, About.com

Updated April 28, 2009

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  • Jammu & Kashmir
    • School For Hearing Impaired, Jammu
    • School For The Hearing Handicap J&K, Jammu Tawi
    • Deaf & Dumb School, Srinagar
  • Haryana
    • Mata Prakash Kaur Welfare Centre For Hearing School & Speech Handicapped, Karnal
  • Himachal Pradesh - Deaf & Dumb School in Simla.
  • Karnataka has schools in Bangalore, Belgaum, Bellary, Dandeli, Dharwar, Gulbarga, Kamagere, Kolar, Mysore, and Sirsi.
  • Kerala - has several schools, in Calicut, Kasargod, Kottayam, Malappuram, Manakala, Moovattupuzha, Quilon, Thiruvalla, Thrichur, Trichur, and Wayanad.
  • Maharashtra has schools in Ahmednagar, Akola, Aurangabad, Chandrapur, Dombivali, Gadchiroli, Kolhapur, Mumbai (Bombay), Nashik, Parbhani, Poona, Pune, Ratnagiri, Raigad, Sangli, Satura, Sindhudurg, Sholapur, Solapur, Thane,
  • Manipur has a government deaf school.
  • Madhya Pradesh has Anand Niketen School For Hearing Handicapped in Bilaspur
  • Nagaland has the Boarding School For Deaf & Dumb in Dimapur.
  • Orissa - Orissa has many schools for the deaf, and schools for the blind and deaf, in Baragarh, Berhampur, Bhubaneswar, Bolangir, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Ganjam, Kalahandi, Kamaraj, Keonjhar, Khurda, Koraput, Mayurbhanj, Phulbani, Puri, Sambalpur, and Sundargarh.
  • Pondicherry has a Governmentt School For The Blind, Deaf & Dumb
  • Punjab has schools in Faridkot, Jullender, Ludhiana, and Patiala.
  • Rajasthan has schools in Ajmer, Bikaner Jaipur, Jodhpur, Kota, Sirohi.
  • Sikkim does not seem to have a school for the deaf but does have a unit for deaf children within a hearing school in Gangtok.
  • Tamil Nadu has many schools, including those in Chennai, Coimbatore, Dharmapuri, Kancheepuram, Kanyakumari, Madras, Madurai, Mayiladutuvinm, Nilgiris, North Arcot, Periyar, Pudukkottai, Ramanand, Salem, Tanjore, Tiruchy, Tirunelveli, Trichy, Tutioorn, and Vellore.
  • Tripura has a school in North Tripura and another in West Tripura.
  • Uttar Pradesh has a school in Ghaziabad.
  • West Bengal has schools in Burdwan, Calcutta, Darjeeling, Howrah, Midnapore, Murshidabad and Parganas.
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