Gordon Kerr is the founder of Canadian International health services. He is a leader in the promotion of hearing aids to the needy people around the world. His group CIHS is planning a training session for 55 teachers in Barbados who work with hearing impaired children. Certainly on this trip he will continue to support these teachers use and teaching of sign language but he also wants to introduce them to the value of hearing aids.
Kerr points out that many teachers in developing countries promote sign language over hearing aid usage simply because they do not have access to hearing aids. This Canadian volunteer group CIHS hopes to help change this.
In 1975, Kerr launched this organization to help developing countries gain access to hearing aids with fellow Canadian, Don Hood, an audiologist.
