Gordon Flesch Supports Child's Voice's Early Intervention Efforts

Child’s Voice recently received $4,000 for its Early Intervention Program from the Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation.

The Gordon Flesch Company is one of the largest independent providers of office technology solutions in the nation. Family-owned since 1956, the Gordon Flesch Company employs more than 600 people throughout 26 offices in the Midwest, with their corporate office in Madison, Wisconsin.

The Gordon Flesch Charitable Foundation is managed entirely by company associates. Each year associates nominate organizations close to their hearts and close to their communities. The foundation’s board of directors reviews nominations and selects award recipients. Grants are generally awarded to non-profits that assist people dealing with disease, illness, or disaster.

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, all with the end goal of transitioning graduates back to their neighborhood schools. The Child’s Voice program also includes early intervention services and audiology testing and support. At its two locations in Wood Dale and the Roscoe Village neighborhood in Chicago, Child’s Voice serves nearly 400 children and their families each year.

The Early Intervention Program serves children from just a few weeks old through the age of 3. Early identification of hearing loss and early access to sound through a hearing device (like a hearing aid, cochlear implant, or combination of these) gives a baby’s brain the opportunity to hear sounds and language. Through center- and home-based therapy services that focus on creating a partnership with parents and caregivers, babies and toddlers learn to listen and to speak through daily routines, interaction with family, and play.

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