To make this a reality the Foundation focuses on three areas of programming
Clinical Services * Education * Music
FHSR Clinical Programming: FHSR directly funds these key support positions at The Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago:
The Hart Family Cochlear Implant Education Coordinator, Bilingual Social Workers and the Loaner Hearing Aid Bank.
FHSR Education Programming: FHSR partners with the Chicago Hearing Society through their CHOICES program to fund the expansion of the READ literacy program and DEAR Day throughout Central and Southern Illinois.
FHSR Music Programming: Created to commemorate the Foundation’s 60th anniversary in 2018, the Music to My Ears Program provides tuition free early childhood music classes, individual instrument lessons along with classroom and after school programing, to bring music into the lives of children living with hearing loss.
Give the Gift Of Hearing
This year in honor of Louise Hart, founding Director, the 2020 Annual Appeal will support essential services provided by the Audiology and Cochlear Implant Program at the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago.
The Audiology and Cochlear Implant Program‘s multidisciplinary 23-member team consists of audiologists, speech language pathologists, social workers, nurses, the Hart Family Cochlear Implant Education Coordinator and surgeons, all with specialized training and knowledge.
Every contribution to FHSR helps improve the lives of children with Cochlear Implants.
We hope you will consider making a gift to support these efforts.
Your Gift Could Support
- The Hart Family Cochlear Implant Education Coordinator – Assisting over 150 patients and families each year to ensure every child can meet their educational goals.
- Loaner Hearing Aids – Loaner hearing aids help ensure that a child’s hearing and communication are not affected due to lack of a device, or their family’s ability to pay for one.
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Retention Clips For Hearing Aids – Retention clips serve as a “security system” to attach the hearing aid to a child’s clothing with a plastic loop that helps keep the hearing aid from being lost and provides families with a way to protect this important device. Retention clips are also not covered by Medicaid and Lurie Children’s provides them to children free of charge.
Music To My Ears Scholarship Program
One year of tuition-free early childhood music classes
The Foundation for Hearing & Speech Rehabilitation (FHSR) is proud to partner with The Merit School of Music and The Old Town School of Music to create the Music To My Ears Scholarship Program commemorating the Foundation’s 60th Anniversary. The Scholarship provides one-year of tuition-free early childhood music classes for children (up to four years of age) and instrument lessons for children (over four years of age) who are deaf/hard of hearing living in Chicago and the surrounding Suburbs.
Music to My Ears Scholarships applications are currently available.
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