Our Projects

In this completely updated sixth edition, Hearing in Children thoroughly examines the current knowledge of pediatric audiology, and provides a medical perspective on the identification, diagnosis, and management of hearing loss in children. This enduring text has been the chief pediatric hearing resource used worldwide by audiologists for nearly 40 years. All proceeds from Hearing in Children are donated to support projects of the Colorado Hearing Foundation.

The non-profit Marion Downs Center in Denver, CO provides state-of-the-art, culturally sensitive services, resources, education, and research to support the needs of individuals with communication challenges and their families. The mission of the MD Center is to improve quality of life through compassionate, multidisciplinary, and high-quality services and education. Their goals are to identify and support the early identification, education, and literacy of those most vulnerable to early learning challenges as well as engage and educate the community and professionals in the areas of hearing loss, deafness, and communication challenges.

Dori’s Discovery Days is a weekend camp educational adventure for deaf and hard-of-hearing children (ages 7 -11), their parents and siblings. Families will develop new skills that will help their disadvantaged school-aged children. The camp is sponsored by the Colorado Hearing Foundation and the Bill Daniels Center of Children’s Hospital Colorado and is held annually in the Fall season…

Located in Spokane, WA, HOPE (Hearing Oral Program of Excellence) is a pre-school and toddler program for children with hearing impairment. Funding for the school helps offset operational expenses and scholarships for students whose families cannot afford the special education services. Spokane HOPE provides excellent listening and spoken language studies for young children wearing cochlear implants, hearing aids and other assistive listening devices.

As the non-profit arm of the American Academy of Audiology, the AAA Foundation serves to raise public awareness for audiologists and the audiology profession. The AAA Foundation sponsors scholarships and awards for students and professionals as well as lectures and research grants.

The Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss aims to make a direct and lasting impact on babies and young children who are deaf or hard of hearing and living in low- and middle-income countries by providing them and their families access to the early identification, hearing technology, and locally-based professional expertise they need to learn to listen and speak and achieve their full potential.

The Jerry Northern Scholarships in Pediatric Audiology are awarded annually through the American Academy of Audiology Foundation. Candidates are full-time graduate students enrolled in an audiology degree program (AuD, PhD, AuD/PhD) and in good standing at a U.S. university. Applicants must be at least in their second academic year in the graduate program and have completed at least one course in pediatric audiology. Each university audiology program may nominate only one student per year for this scholarship opportunity. Information for applicants is available at audiology.org/foundation

The Colorado Hearing Foundation sponsors an annual spring symposium entitled “The Journey Through Adolescence” conducted by the staff of The Bill Daniels Center within Children’s Hearing and the Children’s Hospital Colorado in Denver. The conference is aimed at professionals and parents seeking to understand the complex years of adolescence. Speakers offer insight into the social competencies, as well as the social isolation and chronic loneliness in adolescents who are deaf or hard of hearing. The Bill Daniels Center for Children’s Hearing provides comprehensive, family-centered care for children who are deaf and hard of hearing.

The Colorado Hearing Foundation sponsors an annual program to identify outstanding audiology student clinicians at participating universities. The Outstanding Audiology Student Clinician Award recognizes exceptional clinical performance and commitment to excellence demonstrated by a graduating AuD scholar. The recipient of this award is selected by the university audiology faculty and is based on consistent performance at the highest levels of clinical skills and best practices in delivering patient-centered hearing care. This awardee is noted for their enthusiasm and positive attitude, clinical acumen, professionalism, knowledge, respect, empathy, compassion, and equity of care for all patients.

We are pleased to be a “Leader of the Pack” sponsor for Paragon Service Dogs of Henderson, CO. This unique organization has trained and placed more than 1,400 carefully selected and custom trained dogs with deaf and hard-of-hearing people. Hearing dogs are trained over a two-year period to alert to sounds like phone or doorbell rings, and smoke alarms providing security and safety for their hearing-impaired partners.