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School news: March 29, 2009 : Schools : Boulder Daily Camera
A new group with the Boulder Valley School District's deaf/hard-of-hearing program has adopted a service project that is connected to local audiology mission trips. The district's "Girls Group" -- a bi-weekly club of three fifth-grade girls and two high school mentors who all wear hearing aids -- has made donation cans to place in local audiology offices soliciting used hearing aids and earmolds.
Their collections will go with local service workers on Boulder's annual Mante mission trip, a 20-year-old project supported by Boulder Community Hospital to serve Boulder's sister city: Mante, Mexico. The girls chose the project after learning that hundreds of children from impoverished rural areas are tested and fit with hearing aids and earmolds.
Other earmolds and aids were donated to Soaring Hope International mission trip to rural China. More than 300 children in a school for the deaf and a rehabilitation center in Chaopyan were tested and provided hearing aids on the trip last year. The group worked with audiologists from the University of Colorado and Boulder Community Hospital, who provided facilities for and instruction on cleaning the donated equipment.
This service project has helped connect Boulder Valley students with the world community of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. They've learned how lucky they are to have the resources, technology and support that provide appropriate education to deaf and hard-of-hearing students in any school they choose, officials said, and they have up-to-date and clean hearing aids.
Girls Group also knows how to have fun: They go bowling, make holiday cookies, get their nails done and watch movies with captions. Group leaders say, "It has been an invaluable connection between the high school mentors and the fifth grade students. Just to see other kids wearing hearing aids brings an acceptance and feeling of normalcy to being the only student in your school with a hearing disability."
The group is still taking used hearing aids and earmolds for future mission trips. You can send any donations to our BVSD audiologists, Jan Sakamoto and Sandy Johnston, at the Education Center, 6500 Arapahoe Road in Boulder.
A new group with the Boulder Valley School District's deaf/hard-of-hearing program has adopted a service project that is connected to local audiology mission trips. The district's "Girls Group" -- a bi-weekly club of three fifth-grade girls and two high school mentors who all wear hearing aids -- has made donation cans to place in local audiology offices soliciting used hearing aids and earmolds.
Their collections will go with local service workers on Boulder's annual Mante mission trip, a 20-year-old project supported by Boulder Community Hospital to serve Boulder's sister city: Mante, Mexico. The girls chose the project after learning that hundreds of children from impoverished rural areas are tested and fit with hearing aids and earmolds.
Other earmolds and aids were donated to Soaring Hope International mission trip to rural China. More than 300 children in a school for the deaf and a rehabilitation center in Chaopyan were tested and provided hearing aids on the trip last year. The group worked with audiologists from the University of Colorado and Boulder Community Hospital, who provided facilities for and instruction on cleaning the donated equipment.
This service project has helped connect Boulder Valley students with the world community of deaf and hard-of-hearing children. They've learned how lucky they are to have the resources, technology and support that provide appropriate education to deaf and hard-of-hearing students in any school they choose, officials said, and they have up-to-date and clean hearing aids.
Girls Group also knows how to have fun: They go bowling, make holiday cookies, get their nails done and watch movies with captions. Group leaders say, "It has been an invaluable connection between the high school mentors and the fifth grade students. Just to see other kids wearing hearing aids brings an acceptance and feeling of normalcy to being the only student in your school with a hearing disability."
The group is still taking used hearing aids and earmolds for future mission trips. You can send any donations to our BVSD audiologists, Jan Sakamoto and Sandy Johnston, at the Education Center, 6500 Arapahoe Road in Boulder.