Ashray Akruti is a non-profit organization aimed at empowering people with disabilities, particularly focusing on hearing-impaired children, through education, healthcare, and skills training. The organization has successfully integrated over 270 hearing-impaired children into mainstream education and conducted numerous cochlear implant surgeries, among other achievements. They also offer sign language training to bridge communication gaps and improve job opportunities for deaf individuals.

2. Our Vision
Empower people with
disabilities and people from
underprivileged background
through quality education,
healthcare and sustainable
livelihoods.

3. Our Mission
To create institutional, non
institutional and community
based interventions for the
people to help them become
independent, self-reliant and
contributing citizens of the
country.

4. Core Values
Empowerment Innovation
Accountability &
Transparency

5. The Journey
 Ashray Akruti is a registered non-profit, non-religious organization working for Hearing
Impaired Children
 Started with just five children in 1996
 Now caters to more than 550 children with disabilities across Telangana and Andhra
Pradesh.
 More than 270 hearing-impaired children have been integrated into mainstream schools,
colleges and Universities.

6. Ashray Akruti Current projects
 Education
 Health
 Skill Development

7. Projects at a Glance

8. Achievements so
far
650
students
are
provided
with
special
education
183
youth
trained in
Multimedia
&
Animation
& placed
successfully
95
Cochlear
Implant
surgeries
conducted
till date
65
children
undergoing
therapy at
our
rehabilitati
on facility
100000
children
screened at
camps
conducted at
various Govt.
schools &
slums
10000
new born
babies
screened
through our
free
services
75
Children
are
undergoing
Auditory
Verbal
therapy
40000
people
Got free
services like
PTA,BERA
through our
Hearing
Clinic

9. Skill Development
Aim: To provide training in sign language to address the scarcity
of sign language interpreters in the country and also provide
opportunities for employment.
Objective:
 To Bridge the communication gap between Deaf employees
and the staff.
 To build better relationship with deaf people.
 To create job opportunities as interpreters.
 To develop professionals in the Disability sector.

10. A language that
employs signs made with the
hands and other movements,
including facial expressions
and postures of the body, used
primarily by people who are
deaf.
What is Sign Language?

11. Development of Sign Language in different countries
In fact, there are somewhere between 138 and 300 different types of sign language used throughout the world today.

12.  Why do some of us learn German? Or Japanese? French? To converse
with those who speak those languages.
 Why then isn't it necessary to learn to converse with the deaf?
 They are not less intelligent than us. They just don't always speak the
same language as we do. There is a need to educate and employ deaf
persons...mainstream them in every sense of the word.
 Wouldn't it be lovely to see children with HI playing with hearing kids in
a park and having no trouble communicating?
It happens in most developed countries, why not ours?
Why must we all learn to sign?

13. Who MUST learn to sign? [we believe everybody should]
 People who work with children who have learning or speech related
issues with or without deafness.
 Teachers from schools for deaf children.
 Teachers in inclusive schools
 People in the service industry, armed forces, legal, medical,
entertainment fields...
 Those looking for careers as interpreters for the deaf.
 Deaf instructors.
 Those who would like to make friends with persons who are deaf.
 Most importantly - Parents and family of deaf persons

15. Indian sign
language is a
full language
just like Hindi ,
English and
Marathi
ISL is the
Language of
the Deaf
Community of
India
ISL has it’s
OWN
grammar
Every Country
has it’s own
sign language
Indian Sign Language

16. Benefits of Learning Sign Language
 Learning Indian Sign Language fluently helps him or her connect with other Deaf persons and the larger
Deaf community.
 It enriches and enhances your cognitive processes higher abstract and creative thinking, better problem
solving, greater cognitive flexibility, better listening skills, greater academic achievement, and more!
 Increasing Demand for Indian Sign Language Interpreters & Professionals.
 Opportunities to work with Best NGO’S , Schools, Colleges and Corporates as part time or full time in
India.
 Earn Good and Service Better

17. Eligibility criterion:
Any candidate who satisfies the below criteria's is eligible for admission into
the course:
a) Senior Secondary (10+2)/equivalent with minimum 50% marks
b) Should possess Normal range Hearing capacity
c) Fluency in at least one of the languages (i.e., English, Hindi or Telugu)
d) Functional hands
Intake capacity:
 100 students will be trained in a duration of one year.
 Total four batches consisting 25 students per batch will be
trained for three months each.

18. Success Stories
 Candidates Name: C . Gunashekhar
 Profession: Sign language interpreter at Amazon
 Education: Graduate
 Before: Lived a life of hardships, Job search,
Financial problems, Jobless unwell father
 After: Completed course successfully and was assisted
 to find employment with Amazon.
 Today: Mr. Guna works for Amazon
 & Bridges the communication gap between 30 deaf
employees and other staff at Amazon.

19.  Candidates Name: Raj Kumar
 Qualification: Graduate
 Profession: Sign language interpreter at Amazon
 Before: Sign Language Course: Worked as an
Office boy at D mart .
 After: Works as “Sign Language Interpreter’’ at
Amazon

20. Status prior to Training Program Launch
 Total Number of students enrolled 77
 Students trained successfully 70
 Training is provided not only to the keen college students but also to the
siblings, parents or other family members of hearing impaired persons.
 Students placed as interpreters with a package of Rs. 20,000/