FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER

The Center’s operations are organized through three major components:

Timely Access to Hearing Healthcare Professionals:

1. Rapid response by phone, e-mail, or walk-in, to field parent/family inquiries regarding any pediatric and adolescent hearing loss issue or question;
2. Situation-specific expertise to callers, through access to clinical professionals including League audiologists, speech pathologists, psychologists, and social workers;
3. Onsite staff support to parents and families.

Education to Parents and Families:

1. Dissemination of A Parent’s Guide to Hearing Loss: One Step at a Time (An Audiotory/Oral Approach), a comprehensive, multi-resource educational kit for parents and providers about issues related to childhood hearing loss, developed with a grant from the J.C. Kellogg Foundation in 2005;
2. Easily accessible educational information via League website (www.lhh.org).

Resource Referral and Advocacy:

1. Recommendation of “best practice” books, videos, pamphlets, bibliographies, and reference materials for parent use and information;
2. Information about and reference to relevant workshops, seminars, events, and programs;
3. Assistance to parents and families in advocating on behalf of the needs of their child (Early Intervention, in and out-of-school supportive services and technology, etc.).

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