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Greetings!
As another year comes to a close, we reflect on our accomplishments, milestones, and celebrations at the Marion Downs Hearing Center. It is important to note that YOUR support through volunteerism and charitable giving makes it possible for us to touch as many lives as we do today. After all, giving back is a way of life and a part of the human experience. Few things are as fulfilling and enduring as making a difference in someone's life.
And this year, you helped us touch so many of them.
Happy Holidays to you and your family!
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This Year ...
- Our clinician, Stacy Claycomb, Aud, and her crew of amazing Newborn Hearing Screening volunteers tested the hearing of approximately 3,000 babies at birth in University of Colorado Hospital.
- We received 800 hours of volunteer support which is worth almost $17,000 of service! We are enternally indebited to our volunteers!
- Nearly 100 teenagers participated in our Teen Program, receiving crucial information on self-advocacy skills, community resources, and hearing technology, all designed to promote a successful transition from graduating high school to either starting college or entering the work force.
- Over 50 families benefited from our loaner hearing aid bank, borrowing hearing technology while they waited for repairs, tried new hearing aids, or located financial assistance to purchase aids for themselves.
- Three of our clinicians advanced their education and professional expertise: Ronald Olson earned his AuD, Melinda Anderson earned her PhD, and Tammy Frederickson earned her PhD. Congratulations!
- 42 individuals received cochlear implants in 2010, providing them with more access to sound and communication.
- 85 parents, teachers, teenagers, paraprofessionals, and other members of the general public went through our Sign Language Program, improving their skills and understanding of the language.
- The Foundation Board received approval on the schematic design for the Marion Downs Hearing Center building, allowing us to move forward with our capital campaign to raise funding for the eventual completion of the designs and construction.
- Two of our staff members celebrated the births of new babies, growing the Marion Downs Hearing Center: Welcome Adelynn Novinger (mother, Rebecca) and Waker Anderson (mother, Melinda)!
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Sandra Gabbard, PhD, Herman Jenkins, MD and Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, PhD, were invited professional speakers at the Hearing International Conference and the Shanghai Otology and Audiology Conference in Shanghai, China in October. Drs. Gabbard and Yoshinaga-Itano also traveled to Louyang China to work with audiologists, physicians, teachers and parents in an effort to improve services to deaf and hard-of-hearing children in the Louyang region.
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Kristin Uhler, PhD, was accepted for publication in Journal of the American Academy of Audiology regarding speech perception in infnats with cochlear implants. Kristin is an audiologist with the MDHC.
- After five years of planning and fundraising, during June and July 2010, 8 children successfully completed the first class of Marion's Way, our diagnostic preschool program!
- One of our audiologists, Melinda Anderson, PhD, was accepted for publication in Ear and Hearing and International Journal of Audiology regarding sound quality perception in listeners with typical hearing and listeners with hearing loss using different types of hearing aid digital signal processing strategies. (Arehart, K, Kates, J., and Anderson, M. (2010) Effects of noise, nonlinear processing, and linear filtering on perceived speech quality. Ear and Hearing, 31, 420-436.)
- The Colorado Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing awarded us a $5,000 grant to expand our Teen Program, Connect and Grow! These funds will allow us to expand our program to include an overnight experience on a Colorado based college campus for 10 teenagers from anywhere in the state. Stay tuned for details in 2011!
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