IN BRIEF (Page: 3, Date: 11/06/2002)

From: China Daily | Date: November 6, 2002 | Copyright information

BEIJING

Deaf kids cured

Some 163,000 deaf children have managed to recover their hearing and speaking ability thanks to a rehabilitation programme that China launched in 1988. Official sources showed some 30,000 babies are born with impaired hearing ability and another approximately 800,000 deaf children under the age of seven have hearing problems.

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