Updated On: 17 June, 2013 08:03 AM IST | | Soma Das
Sounds Of Silence, which focuses on empowering the hearing-impaired children with mobile phones, recently won the World Education Summit Award 2013 for bringing innovation in education using mobile technology
As part of Sumit Gandhi’s MBA at the SP Jain Institute of Management (Social Internship programme), he worked with a hearing and speech impaired orphanage.He tried to find a way to communicate with them and realised his cell phone came handy. Explaining how this simple tool could revolutionise education, Gandhi says, “I used my phone to ask questions to kids; they replied by re-typing answers. It’s possible to help children shed their inhibitions and interact with the outside world with confidence.”u00a0

Sumit Gandhi (right) with hearing impaired students