Hearing Aid Plan is unmatched

The Hearing Aid Plan services the majority of children with hearing loss in the province and provides excellent testing by trained audiologists who understand the educational and linguistic needs of their young clients. The staff have developed strong relationships with students, parents, teachers of the hearing impaired, speech pathologists, classroom teachers, doctors and the cochlear implant team.

This team approach has produced programs that are respected around the world. Often they are the first qualified professional a child with mild, moderate or fluctuating loss meets.

They work closely with aiding children from newborns to young adults and are part of an unofficial “team” whose goal is to provide access to the hearing world for children with a hearing loss.

This is time-consuming work which a private clinic can’t duplicate.

You don’t just fit a deaf child with a hearing aid and send him on his way.

The aid is the first step in a long journey to acquire language.

He may need many different devices at school and several aids or set of aids during his educational life.

He will need lots of repairs, replacements and close monitoring.

The H.A.P. does most repairs without charge and provides loaner aids so no child goes without amplification for even a day. No private clinic does this.

This closure will rob these children and young people of experienced delivery of amplification at an affordable cost and set back programs for those with hearing loss for years.

Barbara Scott, Saskatoon