Camden’s Story
Meet Camden – our 2023 FHSR Champion Child! Camden is an energetic, outgoing, and curious 3 ½ year old who loves reading, pretending, and going to school. He also happens to have hearing loss. If being pirate or a builder is up your alley, you would love to go on an adventure with Camden! Camden’s […]
Meet Anna Tess
FHSR EDUCATION COORDINATOR – ANNA TESS In recent years the Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources (FHSR) has heard from families a need for a parent/teacher resource to support their child with hearing loss in educational settings. To answer this need, FHSR has created the Education Coordinator program to support parents, teachers and administrators with […]
Amplified – A mini-series podcast about growing up with hearing loss
Katie Radasevich AuD CCC-A (Associate Board Co-Chair) and her parents, Rudy (Board Co-Chair) and Eileen Radasevich discuss Katie’s hearing loss diagnosis on its 30-year anniversary. Katie Radasevich already demonstrated a speech and language delay when she was identified with a significant hearing loss at age two. Listen to Katie and her family share the journey […]
Roselynn’s Story
Roselynn is FHSR’s amazing patient champion for our 2022 Annual Appeal!Born with bilateral hearing loss, Roselynn has overcome many obstacles to become the fairytale princess loving talkative singing little girl we know today. Identified with mild to moderate hearing loss, Roselynn was first fitted with hearing aids at Comer Children’s Hospital in 2018. Thanks in […]
Tips for Improving Hearing Aid and Cochlear Implant Retention
By: Associate Board Member EmilyAnn Duffley Every parent of a young child with hearing loss knows that it is sometimes a challenge to keep the devices on their busy child’s head when they are being active. If a hearing device falls off of a child while on the playground or during sports, it is easy […]
Pitch perception and Cochlear Implant users
Did you know that cochlear implant users perceive pitch in an entirely different way than normal hearing listeners? This can sometimes make it difficult for people with cochlear implants to appreciate the melody of music or understand tone of voice. Let’s put this into an analogy on the piano. Pretend that all the keys on […]
Connections Webinar: Creating a music rich environment in homes for infants with hearing loss
Create a music rich environment! How playful interactions at home with music and movement stimulate cognition and foster sound production.
Live from Merit: Music Education for Deaf/Hard of Hearing Children with FHSR
Today, visionary music educators are finding that music education especially benefits children who are deaf/hard of hearing (DHH).
An Interview with Jen Haney, Family Education Liaison
FHSR interviewed Jen about her role as a Family Education Liaison and tips for parents about navigating accommodations and special education plans. She is the Hart Family Education Liaison for the Cochlear Implant Program at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. She is a licensed teacher of the deaf and hard of hearing, and a credentialed Early Invention evaluator and provider.
The Past, Present and Future Landscape of Cochlear Implant Technology
Jeff Graunke from Cochlear Americas shares what we have learned about cochlear implants in 30 years and outlines the challenges we still face in the upcoming future.
