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Annual Family Holiday Party - This Saturday! | |
Please join us this Saturday for our annual Holiday Party with our community partners, Colorado Families for Hands & Voices and CSDB's Early Intervention Programs. This is a no-cost event open to all families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing. We'll have arts and crafts, cookie decorating, and Signing-Speaking Santa Claus himself will make a personal visit! Follow this link for more information.
WHEN
Saturday, December 3
12:30-2:30pm
WHERE
MDHC Administrative Offices
1793 Quentin Street
Aurora, CO 80045
(Park in the parking lot behind the building)
RSVP
By: December 2 at www.mariondowns.com |
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Teen Receives Gift of Hearing After Family Donates Implant | |
There was not a dry eye in the room as two families met for the first time to give thanks for something many of us take for granted. Daniela Hernandez, 16, received the gift of hearing from the family of now deceased Ann Grotzky. Hernandez can't hear without a cochlear implant. Her current implant has seen its fair share of wear and tear making hearing still difficult. A new one would have cost her family around $8,000. Janeane Golliher's mother had the costly cochlear implant device Hernandez needed. Just 3 weeks after receiving it however, she passed away. The expensive device was donated by the family to Hernandez.
"It means a lot to me because I've always wanted to get a new one but we didn't have enough money," Hernandez said.
Read more of the CBS Denver story...
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Marion Downs Interviewed on Colorado Public Radio | | | On November 15, Marion Downs was interviewed by Colorado Public Radio for her contribution to the field of newborn hearing screenings. She discussed the differences in testing methods 40 years ago compared to today and how our more sophisicated instruments play a critical role in the early identification of hearing loss. Follow this link to hear the full interview. |
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Please Support Our Programs | | |
We accomplished a lot in 2011.
- 8 children attended Marion's Way Preschool; all received scholarships.
- 3,000 babies were screened for hearing loss at birth.
- 100 people took classes through our Sign Language Program
- 65 high school students participated in the Teen Program; 1 received a $500 college scholarship
- 100 audiologists, researchers, and teachers received professional training.
- 3 practices in rural Colorado received technical assistance and tele-audiology services.
- 5,000 people received services in our comprehensive clinical program.
However...we did not reach our fundraising goal this year. Your help and support are necessary to the survival and expansion of these programs.
Please consider making a year-end , tax deductible donation to the Marion Downs Hearing Center Foundation today.
A donation of...
- $50 - One Marion's Way Preschool student's books for the summer
- $150 - The sign language class tuition of one low-income individual
- $200 - The food expenses of a Family Picnic for over 100 people
- $500 - A college scholarship to one high school teenager
- $1,000 - One high school teenager's experience in our Teen Program
- $2,000 - The tuition of one Marion's Way Preschool student from a low-income family
Make a pledge (one-time or recurring) on our secure website today.
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No-Cost Genetic Counseling in Rural Colorado Available Through Grant | | The Colorado Department of Health and Environment has teamed with the Marion Downs Hearing Center to provide no-cost genetic counseling to families in rural Colorado. Genetics counseling can help families understand the cause of their child's hearing loss. See this flyer for more information.
If you are interested in referring a family to this service or making an appointment yourself, please contact us at 720-848-3042 or rebecca.novinger@uch.edu.
NOTE: This service will only be available at no-cost for the duration of the grant which concludes in Spring 2012.
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Help Us Clean Up! | |
We now have over 1,000 names in our database! WOW!
Over the years, people move, email addresses change, and cell phone numbers are added. We want to make sure we have your most CURRENT and ACCURATE contact information. Nothing bugs us more than a wasted stamp on a returned holiday card or a bounced email to an invalid address.
Please click on the Update Profile/Email link at the bottom of this page to make sure we have your complete, accurate contact information. Thanks for helping us declutter!
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Remembering Dr. Raymond Wood II | | |
Dr. Raymond Perry Wood, II, passed away in his home in Denver on October 6th after a prolonged illness.
Please join us at for a memorial at 5:30pm on Monday evening, December 12th, at the Marion Downs Hearing Center. Contact us at 720-838-3042 for more information.
Dr. Wood completed his Otolaryngology (ENT) residency in Denver at University of Colorado. In the late 1960's, he accepted a position as an ENT instructor at the University of Colorado Medical School where he stayed until his retirement late in the 1990's. His particular joy was actively teaching his specialty and hosting medical students from around the world in his home. Dr. Wood was a close friend of Marion Downs and a supporter of the Marion Downs Hearing Center in our early years, serving on our Foundation Board.
We have established the Ray Wood Memorial in his honor which will go toward the naming of an ENT exam room in the new Marion Downs Hearing Center building.
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