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From black and white to color: from deafness to hearing...
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From black and white to color: from deafness to hearing... |
Hearing For Children
“I’m just as deaf as I am blind. The problems of deafness are deeper and more complex, if not more important than those of blindness. Deafness is a much worse misfortune for it means the loss of the most vital stimulus— the sounds of voice that bring language, set thoughts astir and keep us in the intellectual company of man.”
Helen Keller
Hearing For Children is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization dedicated to making cochlear implants available worldwide to as many needy and deserving deaf children and adults as possible. This is accomplished by outright gifting of implants, providing low or no interest loans for their purchase, and by promoting cost-effective research to create low-cost, high quality, safe and effective cochlear implants. Donations are tax-deductable.
Our method is to enable those who need a cochlear implant to contribute what they can toward that implant, so that even when accepting such a gift their dignity is preserved, and their sense of independence and empowerment enhanced. For example, if the patient or patient’s family can afford some of the purchase price of an implant, Hearing For Children will provide the remainder of the cost. If the family does not have the resources to offer any payment toward the implant, Hearing For Children Society will furnish the implant and, in conjunction with local individuals and organizations, work to find something the patient or her family can do to help others in their local community. We also gather reports from the patients and their families about what the cochlear implant has meant for them, and the changes catalyzed in their lives.
Individual loans, gifts and proportional grants are provided through the surgeons and audiologists who are working with hard-of-hearing patients, and we assist them to identify patients who are candidates for assistance.