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MDHC To Provide UCH Hospital Employees with Training
Beginning in June, Rebecca Novinger, MDHC Programs Coordinator, will provide training workshops to University of Colorado Hospital employees focused on communication strategies and cultural awareness to better serve our patients and their families who have hearing loss. The first three workshops will be tailored for those who work directly with patients and their families - CTAs, medical professionals, and administrative staff. Next year, we will focus the training for upper level management and administration.
There are many common misunderstandings about how to communicate effectively and sensitively with this population and our workshop will address many of them. Attendees will also have the opportunity to learn basic customer service phrases in ASL such as "good morning" and "what is your name?" The workshops are a part of the MDHC mission to improve the quality of life for those with hearing loss and that includes their encounter with health care at UCH.
UCH employees can sign up to attend, for free, on Healthstream.
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Technology Drive Continues
This spring and summer, the Marion Downs Hearing Center will be running a technology drive. If you have any old cell phones, iPods, laptops (desktops are not part of this program), please bring them by the Marion Downs Hearing Center at 1793 Quentin Street, Unit 2, Aurora, CO 80045.
All donated pieces will be turned in for money and all funds raised donated directly to the MDHC Foundation!
Thank you very much to everyone who has already been collecting items!
We will give updates on how much we've raised beginning in the next month!
If you're willing to be responsible for a collection box, please call MDHC at 720-848-3042 or email us at mdhc@uch.edu for more information! Boxes will be placed around campus, including in the restaurants and in the school, as well as all over the community.
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Friend Us! Like Us! Follow Us!
We are jumping on the social media bandwagon in a big way! Find us on Facebook (Marion Downs Hearing Center) and "like" our page. We're also Tweeting (MarionDownsCtr)! Are you on? Send us a message so we can connect! 
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2nd Year of Marion's Way Preschool Beginning
 Our preschool program, Marion's Way, is in the final planning stages for the summer! For more information on our program please contact us directly (see information below). The program will run from June 21-July 28 at the Anchor Center in Denver, CO, meeting Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings. Marion's Way 2011 is a program of the Marion Downs Hearing Center at the University of Colorado Hospital and is supported by the Marion Downs Hearing Center Foundation. This year's preschool is full at this time. To inquire about future openings, please call us at 720-848-3043.
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FREE Summer Camp for College-Bound DHH Teens!
Do you have a teenager who plans to go to college in the next couple years? Is this person prepared for the challenges of leaving home? Will they be ready to be their own self-advocates when their classroom needs are not being met?
Campus Connections is a two-day, overnight summer camp hosted on the University of Colorado, Boulder campus on July 22-23 designed to set every teenager up to successfully graduate from college. View this 4-minute YouTube video about camp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0p01bo24oQ
A taste of the topics, and their speakers:
- "Transition? Whats That?" - Susan Elliott, 2009 National Teacher of the Year finalist
- "Taking The Reins; Becoming Your Own Self-Advocate" - Robert Loveless, Colorado Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
- "The ADA, 504, and What?" - Candice Brandt, DBTAC Rocky Mountain ADA Center
Nearly all of our speakers are successful deaf and hard of hearing professionals who can also serve as role models for the campers.
Grant funding and Foundation support enables us to accept 25 teenagers to attend for FREE as well as apply to win a $500 college scholarship!
Interested teens must submit an application by June 24 to attend camp. The application is available on our website at www.mariondowns.com or by request at mdhc@uch.edu.
Camp is open to teens with all types of hearing loss and communication preferences. We are accepting out-of-state residents as well!
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Downs Honored with Science and Medicine Award
 Every year, the Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Awards recognize outstanding Coloradans for contributions made to enhance the quality of life for residents of Colorado. On May 11, the Foundation celebrated the 26th Anniversary of its Annual Award Program by announcing the 2011 recipients and Marion Downs was among them. Marion was awarded the Science and Medicine Award:
Marion Downs is a pediatric audiologist whose pioneering work with infants helped create the program that today screens 95 percent of all American newborns. She was the first audiologist to venture into the newborn nursery and test whether newborn babies could hear. She developed the first infant hearing screening program and spent 30 years persuading her peers to adopt the test in hospitals. Marion is a Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and the founder of the American Auditory Society. She has published nearly 100 articles and books, including a seminal textbook for audiologists-in-training. She was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame in 2006. Still active at the age of 97, Marion skied until she was 95. In 2007, she published "Shut Up and Live: A 93-Year-Old's Guide for Living." Congratulations, Marion! |
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Thank You...
...to everyone who joined MDHC in our May is Better Hearing Month campaign on the Anschutz Medical Campus and at our Boulder Clinic for free hearing screenings. We're grateful to all of our supporters and enjoyed making new friends. We look forward to keeping in touch with you! |
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