During recent years, the nature of the Hearing Impaired students' elementary and high school experiences changed many more impaired students leaving high school today (compared to 10 years ago) and have attended local educational programs where they are more likely to have received some integration with hearing students during academic instruction.

Though there are a lot of high schools for hearing students, there is a no separate higher secondary school that offers science stream.

As a social responsibility, our Chancellor "Kalvivallal" Thiru T.Kalasalingam wants to start this innovative SIX-year B.Tech program for hearing impaired students to enable them to go for well-equipped and decent jobs in industries. Kalasalingam University (KLU) represents the nation's first effort to educate the hearing impaired students within an Engineering University setup planned principally for hearing students. We train these people to adopt the current changes in the industries and excel themselves on par with regular graduates.

The main objective of this program begins with a barrier-free communication environment. The communication environment at KLU gives hearing impaired students freedom to focus on the joy and business of learning and to engage in a high degree of interaction with classmates and professors, both in and out of the classroom.

Salient Features

• First University in India to offer B.Tech programs for people of speech and hearing impaired.
• Lateral Branching out options are available.
• Skill based modular curriculum is formulated.
• Barrier-free communication environment for the students.
• Provides meaningful employment in industry, business,government and education for the hearing impaired students to uplift their social and economical stature.
• Teaching aids include a combination of sign language,lip reading and visual communication.