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Child’s Voice Receives Grant From Driskill Foundation
Funds Used for Teaching Science, Math, and Music
Child’s Voice, which serves children with hearing loss from birth through age eight, has received a $15,000 grant from The Walter S. and Lucienne B. Driskill Foundation. The funds will be used for Child’s Voice’s STREAMM project.
The project is a wide-ranging initiative to bring interactive learning to the classroom with the help of many northern Illinois partners, including the Driskill Foundation. The STREAMM program will enhance components already in place as well as introduce new visiting artists and opportunities. STREAMM at Child’s Voice stands for Science, Technology, Reading, Engineering, Art, Math, and Music.
Child’s Voice, based in Wood Dale and the Roscoe Village neighborhood in Chicago, helps children with hearing loss learn to listen and to speak. Students wear hearing aids and/or cochlear implants, and programs use a child-focused, research-based curriculum, with the end goal of transitioning graduates back to their neighborhood schools. The Child’s Voice program serves nearly 400 children and their families each year.
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The Driskill Foundation’s mission is to ignite the young people of Chicagoland and DuPage area to develop and unleash the power of their curiosity and creativity, inspiring them to live lives filled with meaning, passion, purpose, hope, and a thirst for knowledge.
The Driskill Foundation’s support for the STREAMM Program allows each child to explore their curiosity, utilize different methods of learning through art, music, reading, and STEM, and develop their language skills through a variety of vocabulary opportunities.
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Other partners include the Farny R. Wurlitzer Foundation Fund at the DeKalb Community Foundation, the McMahon Family Fund at the DuPage Foundation, and the Kiwanis Club of Streamwood, and the Rotary Club of Schaumburg/Hoffman Estates.
Visit us and find more information at www.childsvoice.org. Follow us on Facebook, on Twitter @Childs_Voice, on Instagram @Childs_Voice, and on LinkedIn and YouTube, and please use #SmileyCV.
