She made this remark while speaking at the Annual General Meeting of the National Council for the Deaf (NCD) held at BMICH.
She pointed out that technology has to be developed for the well-being of hearing impaired children in the country as early detection and early prevention of hearing impaired children is important.
Minister Senanayake further said during her visit to the USA she was able to obtain 50 million US dollars from the World Bank to be used for the early education of children in the country and she is willing to provide any requirement of the NCD for the betterment of the impaired children'e future.
The AGM presided by NCD, Project Manageress Maud Senaratne had the participation of NCD Officials Lalitha Saleem, Dr. Ananda Soysa, Prof Priyani Soysa, S. Pinto, Mrs. Shirani Dissanayake and Mrs. Delo Perera.
