Sawyer & Tess Griffin, hearing aid recipients, Lions Patient Care Program
“Deafness still remains isolating — even more so than blindness. When you’re blind, you lose touch with things, but when you’re deaf, you lose touch with people.”
— Helen Keller
Hearing Care
Hearing loss is a growing problem in the United States. Many of those who need hearing care either go undiagnosed for too long or have difficulty affording the care they need.
The Northwest Lions Foundation for Sight & Hearing has several different programs to accomplish its mission of protecting and restoring hearing. In 2004, the Foundation established AUDIENT™, an innovative national nonprofit program providing low-cost, high-quality hearing care for those with limited ability to pay.
Additionally, we support Lions Clubs as they serve their communities, offering prevention and detection services such as the Lions Health Screening Unit, refurbished hearing aids through the Lions Hearing Aid Bank, and financial support for sight care through Patient Care Grants and Project Support Grants.
The subnavigation links on the left will tell you more about each one.
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Research is another way the Northwest Lions Foundation for Sight & Hearing serves its hearing mission. The Foundation has committed $250,000 to help fund a hearing research project led by internationally-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Ed Rubel. The research is being conducted at the Lions Hearing Research Laboratory in Seattle. P.S. Dr. Rubel is a Lion. P.P.S: Our past chairman of the Foundation's Board of Trustees, Fred Minifie, Ph.D., is also chairman emeritus of the University of Washington's Hearing Department. He is a driving force behind the creation of AUDIENT. |