From the Director’s Desk
About 50 people braved the heat of August to join the HSF for our Summer Roundup and Hoedown Sunday, August 29 on the banks of the Little River.
The fundraiser, organized by the $10 Club of Maryville, helped raise money for HSF’s Hope and Hearing Program, a new program dedicated to providing auditory processing disorder evaluations, Audiological evaluations and newborn hearing screenings for children on TennCare.
Proceeds from the event will help the Hearing and Speech Foundation support audiological testing for 30 children or newborns. Thank you to all who helped make it a success!
Foundation Update
The Hearing and Speech Foundation is pleased to announce the online publication of our 2009 Annual Report.
From new leadership to a successful implementation of a new program, 2009 was a year of change and growth for HSF. A few highlights from the report include:
- We added 162 new patients to our hearing aid assistance program and renewed 54 patients.
- We fitted 272 hearing aids, of which 151 were donated through the new hearing aid recycling program (HARP).
- In Jamaica, audiologists fitted 78 hearing aids on children at the Caribbean Christian Center for the Deaf.
- Our training program published the first chapter for the training manual.
- The R&D team stepped onto the global stage at an international conference in Florida.
The Foundation would like to thank all those involved in 2009 who helped bring the opportunities for growth we now face in 2010 and beyond.
