Hearing-impaired student eager to help his community
POKHARA, AUG 23 -
Arjun Shrestha, a 30-year-old man from Putalibazaar-4 in Syangja who cannot hear and speak since birth, has been carrying out a research on teaching methods for hearing-impaired students at various schools in the country.
Shrestha, who is pursuing Bachelor of Arts on Sign Language and Deaf Education at the US-based Gallaudet University under a scholarship programme of the Nippon Foundation of Japan, said he is utilising his thee-month vacation for the study.
Stating that he is the first Nepali hearing-impaired man to pursue higher studies on deaf education in the university on scholarship, Shrestha said he aims at launching a project on the development of quality education system for hearing-impaired children after completing his studies in 2015. “I wish to establish a national science centre for deaf education and sign language in Nepal,” he said, adding that he already 12 districts in Nepal for the ongoing research.
Before he was selected for the scholarship programme in 2011, he studied Bachelor’s degree in business management from Tribhuvan University.
As a only hearing-impaired person in his family, Shrestha got full support from his family for studies. He completed his school level education from the Srijana Deaf Residential Higher Secondary School at Lekhnath in Kaski and later taught at the school for some time. “I studied with a lot of hardships and now I want to dedicate my knowledge and experience
to helping hearing-impaired people,” he said.
Being associated with various organisations, Shrestha has visited various countries, including India, China, Malaysia, Japan, Vietnam, Costa Rica, Germany and the US to learn about education for the deaf.
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