All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Mysore
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Thirty one years ago, in the year 1965 on 9th August the All India Institute of speech and Hearing, then named as the All India Institute of Logopedics, was established to meet the long felt need to serve the Speech and Hearing Handicapped in India. The Foundation stone for the AIISH building was laid by the then President of India, Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, on 25th July 1966.
AIISH was made a registered Society in October 1966,Governed by an Executive Council, it is the financed by the Government of India through the Minister of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi.
Since its inception, AIISH has made rapid strides in achieving the objectives enshrined in the Memorandum of Association. New units, sections, departments, have been added from time to time.
The
objects for which the Society was established :
I. Training
To provide and assist in providing general, professional and technical education and training in Speech and Hearing for graduate, post-graduate and doctorate courses of a University.
To provide and assist in providing general, professional and technical education and training to various categories of personnel e.g., medical, paramedical, non-medical, etc.
To undertake, organise and facilitate study courses, conferences, lectures, seminars and the like to promote the above mentioned objects.
To undertake and provide for publication of journals, research papers, etc., and to establish and maintain libraries and information services in furtherance of the objects of the Society.
To invite representatives of governments, universities and other organizations of India and of foreign countries to deliver lectures on subjects in which the society is interested.
To co-operate with international agencies engaged in speech and hearing research and training an arrange for inter-change of personnel, material and data.
To Institute, offer and grant prizes, awards, scholarships, research grants and stipends in furtherance of the objects of the society.
II. Research
To provide and assist in providing facilities and encouragement to research in speech and hearing, their disorders and the concerned diseases of ear, nose and throat.
To provide and assist in providing clinical and surgical services for those with speech and hearing handicaps and ear, nose and throat diseases.
To assist in the development of speech and hearing clinicals in hospitals and other centres.
VI. Public Education
To educate the public about persons with communicative disorders.
To stimulate interest in speech and hearing through publicity and mass communication and to co-operate with other agencies and institutions or professional associations.
V. Administration and Finance
To create administrative, technical ministerial and other posts under the society and to make appointments thereto in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Society.
To appoint and hire services or discharge/terminate the services of personnel and to pay them in return for the services rendered to the society, salaries, wages, gratuities, provident fund, and other allowances or remuneration in accordance with the rules and regulations of the Society.
To borrow and raise money and funds to further the objects of the society and to raise or collect funds by gifts, donations, subscriptions or otherwise of cash and securities and any property either movable or immovable and to grant such rights and privileges to the donors, subscribers, and other benefactors as the society may consider fit and proper.
To invest and deal with funds and money of the society.
To subscribe to, or become a member of, or to co-operate or amalgamate with any other association or society whose objects are similar.
To accept and undertake the management of any endowment or trust fund or donation to further the objects of the society.
To do all such other lawful acts, deeds, things either alone or in conjunction with other organizations or persons as the society may consider necessary, incidental or conductive to the attainment of the above mentioned objects or any of them.
To negotiate and enter into contracts on behalf of the society and vary and rescind such contracts.
To undertake any other function;on that may be assigned to the society by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (Department of Health), Government of India in connection with Speech and Hearing.
Director
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing,
ManasaGangotri,
Mysore - 570 006.
Phone : +91(821)514449
Fax : +91(821)510515
E-mail: dir@aiish.ernet.in