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        • INDIVIDUAL & GROUP INSTRUMENT CLASSES (AGE 4 -12)
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      • HART FAMILY EDUCATION COORDINATOR
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      • DR. NANCY YOUNG, MD
      • LOANER HEARING AID PROGRAM
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    • MUSIC CLASSES & INSTRUMENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
    • EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS (UP TO AGE 4)
    • INDIVIDUAL & GROUP INSTRUMENT CLASSES (AGE 4 -12)
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    • BIRTH TO AGE 3
      • FACTS ABOUT HEARING LOSS & HEARING LEVELS
      • TYPES OF HEARING TESTS
      • AUDIOGRAM
      • EARLY INTERVENTION
      • MUSIC ENRICHMENT FOR BIRTH TO AGE 3
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        • INDIVIDUAL & GROUP INSTRUMENT CLASSES (AGE 4 -12)
        • MUSIC ENRICHMENT FOR BIRTH TO AGE 3
        • SCHOOL BASED MUSIC PROGRAMS
      • EARLY CHILDHOOD VIDEOS
      • MUSIC THERAPY
    • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
      • AGES AND STAGES
      • LITERACY
      • HART FAMILY EDUCATION COORDINATOR
    • CLINICAL & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
      • FREE FAMILY EVENTS
      • DR. NANCY YOUNG, MD
      • LOANER HEARING AID PROGRAM
      • POLICY AND ADVOCACY
  • MUSIC TO MY EARS – MTME
    • MUSIC CLASSES & INSTRUMENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
    • EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS (UP TO AGE 4)
    • INDIVIDUAL & GROUP INSTRUMENT CLASSES (AGE 4 -12)
    • SCHOOL BASED MUSIC PROGRAMS
    • MUSIC THERAPY
    • MUSIC ENRICHMENT VIDEOS
  • EVENTS
    • 2023 Rock The Town For Hearing
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FHSR PROGRAMMING

The Foundation for Hearing and Speech Resources (FHSR) began in the 1950s as a group of parents and professionals seeking to help deaf adults and children. FHSR is an indispensable voice and source of services in Illinois for children who are living with hearing loss. FHSR offers programs to meet the educational, clinical, and social needs of our children, including education coordination services for children with cochlear implants; loaner hearing aid programs; literacy programs; music education initiatives; advocacy and awareness-raising efforts.  The overarching goal of the programs FHSR creates and funds are to level the playing field for children living with hearing loss so they have the same opportunities as their hearing peers. 

MUSIC THEORY - SQUARE

Early Childhood Music Enrichment 

Individual & Group Instrument Classes

School Based Music Programs

Music Therapy

Carter Williams, 3 years old with Audiologists Kathleen Colella (left) and Susan Reynolds (center);

Loaner Hearing Aid Banks

Dr. Nancy Young

Free Family Events

Policy and Advocacy

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Ages and Stages

Hart Family Cochlear Implant Education Coordinator

Literacy

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MUSIC TO MY EARS (MTME) SCHOLARSHIP

The Music To My Ears Scholarship Program allows children with hearing loss to attend weekly music enrichment classes and experience the joy of music with their caregivers and hearing peers.

The scholarship will provide one year of tuition-free music classes for children up to 12 who are deaf/hard of hearing and living in the Chicagoland area.

A $900 donation will sponsor a year of classes for one deaf/hard of hearing child. This amount will allow a child who might not otherwise be able to afford weekly music classes experience the joy of music with their hearing peers.

OUR MAXIMIZED APPROACH

We are always seeking ways to improve our offerings and to make sure we are providing the absolute best to our families.  Sound like something you’d like to be a part of?  We thought so!

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  • HOME
  • PROGRAMMING
    • MUSIC PROGRAMMING
      • MUSIC TO MY EARS – MTME
        • EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS (UP TO AGE 4)
        • INDIVIDUAL & GROUP INSTRUMENT CLASSES (AGE 4 -12)
        • SCHOOL BASED MUSIC PROGRAMS
      • EARLY CHILDHOOD VIDEOS
      • MUSIC THERAPY
    • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
      • AGES AND STAGES
        • BIRTH TO AGE 3
        • PRESCHOOL
        • GRADE AND MIDDLE SCHOOL
        • HIGH SCHOOL
      • HART FAMILY EDUCATION COORDINATOR
      • LITERACY
    • CLINICAL & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
      • LOANER HEARING AID PROGRAM
      • FREE FAMILY EVENTS
        • CHEERS FOR EARS
        • BOWLING WITH FRIENDS
        • MOVE FOR KIDS
      • POLICY AND ADVOCACY
        • SPEAKER SERIES
  • PARENT RESOURCES
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  • EVENTS
  • ABOUT US
  • INSIGHTS
    • BLOG
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Menu
  • HOME
  • PROGRAMMING
    • MUSIC PROGRAMMING
      • MUSIC TO MY EARS – MTME
        • EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS (UP TO AGE 4)
        • INDIVIDUAL & GROUP INSTRUMENT CLASSES (AGE 4 -12)
        • SCHOOL BASED MUSIC PROGRAMS
      • EARLY CHILDHOOD VIDEOS
      • MUSIC THERAPY
    • EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
      • AGES AND STAGES
        • BIRTH TO AGE 3
        • PRESCHOOL
        • GRADE AND MIDDLE SCHOOL
        • HIGH SCHOOL
      • HART FAMILY EDUCATION COORDINATOR
      • LITERACY
    • CLINICAL & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
      • LOANER HEARING AID PROGRAM
      • FREE FAMILY EVENTS
        • CHEERS FOR EARS
        • BOWLING WITH FRIENDS
        • MOVE FOR KIDS
      • POLICY AND ADVOCACY
        • SPEAKER SERIES
  • PARENT RESOURCES
  • PARTNERSHIPS
  • EVENTS
  • ABOUT US
  • INSIGHTS
    • BLOG
    • NEWSLETTERS
  • DONATE
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FHSR is a qualified 501(C)(3) tax exempt organization. Tax ID number 36-6082810.

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FHSR’s MARCOM Gold Award-Winning Website was developed in collaboration with Carlson Integrated, LLC.

MarCom Awards is an international creative competition that recognizes outstanding achievement by marketing and communication professionals. MarCom Awards is administered and judged by the Association of Marketing and Communication Professionals. Judges are industry professionals who look for companies and individuals whose talents exceed a high standard of excellence and whose work serves as a benchmark for the industry. There were over 6,000 entries from 41 countries in the MarCom Awards 2021 competition.

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