Welcome to our new Ontario Clinic

We are excited to annouce the opening of our new Ontario clinic, which opened June 2009.  

Susie Jones, SLP attends training program on CIs

Susie Jones, speech-language pathologist at The Hearing & Balance Center recently completed a two-week training program in the San Francisco Bay area for professionals who provide services for children with cochlear implants.  Professional Preparation in Cochlear Implants (PPCI) is a collaborative effort between Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Smith College.  The onsite course work was supplemented by rigorous advance study and long term follow up, including a mentorship, that will culminate with a three-day capstone experience next summer.  Some of the topics from the training session included: speech acoustics, cochlear implant candidacy and mapping, spoken language development and auditory learning, cognition, goal-setting, parent coaching, and measuring progress.   Sessions were held at Let Them Hear Foundation, The California Ear Institute and The Jean Weingarten Peninsula Oral School for the Deaf.

“The program was wonderful!” reports Susie.  “I came home with new ideas and tools to better support children and their parents as they learn to develop listening and spoken language with the help of a cochlear implant or hearing aids.”

It was inspiring to learn from and network with other professionals who are so committed to helping children with hearing loss reach their full potential.  I’m excited to share all that I learned with other therapists and families in Idaho!”

Susie Jones, M.S. CCC-SLP takes a break at the beach after a long day at PPCI.

Hearing Aid Tax Credit

The Hearing Aid Tax Credit Bill has been reintroduced into both the House of Representatives (H.R. 1646) and the Senate (S. 1019).  If this bill is enacted it would allow a $500 tax credit per hearing aid every 5 years.   Please send a letter in support of this bill.  The following website has a link that helps you customize a letter to your Senator and Congressman. http://www.hearingaidtaxcredit.org/

Paint the Town

This is the 3rd year we have had a group of staff members that have volunteered for Paint the Town.   Paint the  Town is a community wide event that helps paint homes of individuals that are unable to do so themselves.   http://www.nhsid.org/services/paintthetown.html  Everyone involved had a great time.   Our team leader this year was April Fagerson, an audiologist from our Meridian clinic.  She did a great job organizing everybody. 

Susie Jones, speech language pathologist from Boise clinic, working hard.

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