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Child’s Voice’s Continues Partnership With Hinsdale Junior Women

Grant Will Bring Technology to Classrooms

The Hinsdale Junior Woman's Club continued their partnership with Child's Voice with a donation for a SMART Board. This a multi-year project to enhance students’ visual, verbal, and kinesthetic learning.
The Hinsdale Junior Woman's Club continued their partnership with Child's Voice with a donation for a SMART Board. This a multi-year project to enhance students’ visual, verbal, and kinesthetic learning. (Child's Voice)

The Hinsdale Junior Woman's Club (HJWC) recently donated $4,351 to Wood Dale-based Child’s Voice for the purchase of the school’s final SThe

Based in Wood Dale and the Roscoe Village neighborhood in Chicago, Child’s Voice 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 SMART Board project ensures that children have full access to the classroom technology found in their mainstream schools, as well as familiarity and comfort with this technology.

“SMART Board technology allows teachers to bring multimedia lessons to class, no matter where class may be,” said Child’s Voice’s Director of Advancement Kate Bousum.

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The Child’s Voice program serves nearly 400 children and their families each year from all six collar counties including the city of Chicago and surrounding areas across more than 60 zip codes.

This is the second time HJWC is supporting the SMART Board project. Child’s Voice thanks the HJWC for their generosity.

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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.

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