How can I help?
Your support of the Hear and Say Centre helps to give a gift for life…the gift to a deaf child of sound and speech, giving them the ability to achieve their potential.
Giving a child who is deaf or hearing impaired the ability to communicate with clear, natural speech and language opens the door to a life in the world of sound, to opportunities for a full education, employment of choice, social integration with the hearing world and the chance to contribute to their community.
Although this is intensive and therefore expensive therapy, costing the Centre an average of $10,000 per child per year, the centre’s program is provided at no cost to the family, apart from a nominal clinical levy. Government funding provides for 20% but the centre must raise the remainder, over $1.4m annually through corporate and community support and fundraising.
The Centre provides a family-based program, with support and education for the family unit. Children attend from diagnosis of their deafness until school-entry age, when 92% of the Centre’s children enter mainstream education with their hearing peers. The remaining 8% have additional disabilities. This is compared to 33% in Europe.
The Hear and Say Centre was opened in July 1992 with six children and now is represented in four Centres throughout the state, with over 200 children currently enrolled and a waiting list.
There are many ways you can help either financially or in kind or through volunteering.
Your support on an individual, community or corporate level will be most appreciated and will help make a difference to a child’s future.
It is only through the ongoing support of the community that we have been able to change the lives of hundreds of deaf and hearing impaired children and their families.
The Centre is certified as a charity - registration number 1190.
The Centre is endorsed by the ATO as a deductible gift recipient and an income tax exempt charitable entity.
ABN 32 058 430 069
For further information fill in the enquiry form on the contact us page or contact the Centre directly:
Hear and Say Centre
PO Box 930
Toowong 4066
Email: mail@hearandsaycentre.com.au
Phone: 07 3870 2221
Phone: 1300 651 114
Fax: 07 3870 3998