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My goal is to raise funds to help ensure UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh is able to provide expert, compassionate care for sick children locally, regionally, and globally.I’m fundraising for Children’s Hospital because the Hearing Center is a vital part of ensuring success for children with hearing loss.
1. Educational Liaison: Our Educational Liaison works with patient families and professionals to help make complex questions, easier for families of children with hearing loss. This role was established in October 2019 and is funded entirely with money raised through the efforts of the Friends of the Hearing Center.
2. Music to My Ears program: This program was established in 2012 and is a program designed specifically for toddler and preschool age children to improve their listening and speech skills through music. It is free to families.
3. Milestones Program: To be launched in 2020. This program provides age-appropriate products to children with hearing loss to support their growing independence.
4. Therapy Bags: To be launched in 2020. Patient families will receive their own bag of therapy tools to keep and use in their homes. Traditionally these were kept with Early Intervention therapists and taken from home to home. However, in the age of COVID 19, families need their own tools to use during virtual therapy sessions.