Hearing Speech and Deafness Center

Filing Period

Jul 1, 2009 to Jun 30, 2010

Signed

May 12, 2011

Return Version

2009v1.7

Gross Receipts

$3,351,818

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Speech Language and Literacy programs: Speech and Language Therapy, Ned Behnke Speech Language Pre-school, and Paul G Allen Literacy Lab serving 427 clients. This program provides speech therapy, auditory verbal therapy, language development, reading and learning development and associated services to people of all ages. Clients are those with challenges including hearing loss, speech development, cognitive delays, learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders and social skills development. This program includes a birth to five program for children with communication challenges or disabilities. The Early Childhood Education department is comprised of the 59-year old, nationally renowned Parent-Infant Program (PIP). PIP provides home visits, communication/learning development playgroups, parent support groups with a licensed family counselor, individual counseling sessions, sign language classes, speech/language therapy, and audiology services for children with hearing loss, deafness or deaf-blindness for the birth to three age groups. A second component is the Rosen Family Preschool Program which offers the same services as PIP in a bi-lingual environment (spoken English and American Sign Language) for the same population, ages three to five. The students are primarily graduates of PIP. Both program areas work closely with public and private schools and assist in a successful transition to the next learning environment.

Activity 3

Audiology - provided audiology diagnostics and assistive listening technology to 1971 clients. This program provides hearing screening, evaluation and consultations for people of all ages. In addition, the program fits, dispenses, services and repairs hearing aids and regularly includes a "Gift Aids" for low income and special populations (i.e children of Chernobyl with hearing loss). The Audiology Department also provides aural rehabilitation classes for people with hearing loss and their families, and represents HSDC in larger industry-wide initiatives. This program includes a specialty store providing state-of-the-art assistive technology to individuals, government agencies, businesses and educational agencies throughout the United States. With the primary showroom in Seattle, products are also available from the Tacoma and Bellingham offices and through the Internet at www.hsdc.org. Store staff are recognized as technology and accommodation experts and consult frequently on accessible workplaces and classrooms.

Filer

EIN

91-0681207