COLUMBUS
CENTER
THE COMMUNICATION
LEADER
March 2008
We Improve Communication for Life
CPD in the
Community
Inside this issue:
• Early Literacy
• Cochlear Implants
From The President
Dawn Gleason, Au.D., President and CEO
Looking to the past - planning for the future
In 1923, Clarence Birdseye developed
a method to quick-freeze food and
created a whole new industry. Garrett Morgan patented one of the first
automatic traffic signals, after witnessing a collision between an automobile
and a horse-drawn carriage. And nine
graduates of a lip-reading class formed
an organization which is known today
as Columbus Speech & Hearing Center.
A lot has changed in 85 years! Just as
Mr. Birdseye never imagined turkey
bacon or Hot Wings and Blue Cheese
flavored tortilla chips, I’m sure that the
founding members of the Center could
not have envisioned what the future
would hold for us.
Innovation and change have become a
way of life in our society, sometimes for
the better (think pre-packaged salad
mix) and sometimes not (cheese in a
can—what were they thinking?) The
Center, like every other business, is
under continuous pressure to change.
External influences like the economy,
the political climate, reductions in State
programs and our funders’ changing
priorities, all affect our ability to provide services. Other factors are driven
more by the needs of the community,
Great Communicators
his streak in 1998 after playing 2,632 consecutive games. Although he finished his
career at third base, this Hall-of-Famer is
still best known for redefining the position of shortstop.
Now in its 17th year, Great Communicators has established a reputation for being a first-rate event featuring renowned
journalists, legendary figures and national leaders. Following that tradition, the
17th Annual Great Communicators will
welcome baseball legend Cal Ripken, Jr.
to the stage.
In addition to being a Hall-of-Famer, Ripken is an author. His newest book is on
the subject of sports parenting, Parenting Young Athletes the Ripken Way: Ensuring the Best Experience for Your Kids
in Any Sport (2006). Ripken has always
placed a strong focus on giving back to
the community.
Cal Ripken Jr. is baseball’s all-time “Iron
Man.” After 21 seasons with the Baltimore
Orioles, Ripken retired in 2001. His name
appears in the record books repeatedly,
most notably as one of only eight players in history to achieve 400 home runs
and 3,000 hits. In 1995, Ripken broke Lou
Gehrig’s record for consecutive games
played (2,130), and he voluntarily ended
While he will no doubt share about “the
love of the game,” Ripken will also put
the spotlight on the many and varied
programs of Columbus Speech & Hearing Center including audiology, speech
and occupational therapy, education,
and programs created specifically to assist those who are Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing,
and Deaf-Blind.
Featuring Cal Ripken, Jr.
Presenting Sponsor
2006-2008
Honorary Chair
Underwritten by
Speaker Sponsor
Media Support
our clients or changes in technology.
There is never a shortage of questions
to answer.
As we move forward and think about
the future, we’re taking time to look
back and reflect on the past. It will
be important to recognize our core
strengths and make decisions that
sustain us. We believe change is a
strategy that allows us to accomplish
our goals. We’ll remain focused on and
true to our mission, while being open
to finding new ways to accomplish it.
This has been the key to our longevity
all along.
Dawn Gleason
President and CEO
Great Communicators 2008
presented by Huntington
Featuring Cal Ripken, Jr.
Tuesday, May 6
11:30 a.m.
Greater Columbus Convention Center
Call 614.261.5418 for ticket and
sponsorship information.
CPD in the Community
Job Try-Out Helps Consumer
In September 2007 Katherine Brice was
facing a difficult decision. Recently laid
off from her job at Kroger Co., Katherine
was ready to try a new career. After decades in the food service industry she
was ready for a change. Katherine, who
is Hard-of-Hearing, was referred to the
Bureau of Vocational Rehabilitation (BVR)
by a close friend. Needing to find a job,
she signed up for an orientation at BVR
and learned about the services available
to her.
Katherine met with a BVR counselor and
was referred to Columbus Speech & Hearing Center’s Comprehensive Program for
the Deaf (CPD) for a work evaluation.
About a month after her evaluation
Katherine started her first CommunityBased Assessment (CBA). A CBA is a job
placement tool that allows consumers
to try a job for a two-week period to see
if it is something that they are interested
in. CBAs are helpful to prospective employees and to the businesses that open
their doors to our consumers. CPD pays
the consumers for the two-week trial
run, businesses get a volunteer to help
with everyday tasks and consumers get
much-needed job experience.
Katherine’s first CBA was at a local animal
shelter, Pets Without Parents. Katherine
spent her two weeks helping with daily
jobs that included walking dogs, cleaning, answering phones, assisting customers, feeding the animals and anything
else that needed done!
CPD Employment Specialist, Donna
Foster-Sillanpaa said, “A work evaluation
is an incredibly useful tool when helping
individuals find jobs, especially if they
are looking to change industries or are
unsure about what they want to do, like
Katherine was.”
After the evaluation Donna and Katherine
decided that she would enjoy a job where
she had the opportunity to help others.
The “category” Katherine fit into included
jobs like working at a nursing home, helping children with special needs or taking
care of animals. Katherine wasn’t sure
exactly what she wanted to do, but she
knew that she loved animals and thought
that sounded like a great idea.
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While she was certain she would enjoy
working at the shelter, Katherine wanted
to give a few other jobs a try before making her final decision. She asked if she
could have some time to try another CBA
and Amy agreed.
Katherine spent time at a local nursing
home, a veterinarian’s office and another
animal shelter but eventually chose to
accept the job at Pets Without Parents.
She has been working at Pets Without
Parents for 3 months and loves her new
job. She says her favorite part is to show
customers the animals, sometimes she
even wants to take them home herself.
Katherine is married and lives in Grandview with her husband and their pets – a
guinea pig, two parakeets and about 12
fish! She would love to have dogs and
cats too, but isn’t allowed in her apartment.
Katherine completed a battery of tests
that helped to assess her skills, likes and
dislikes. The results from the evaluation
are used to place consumers in a job
category.
“I did different things that I hadn’t done
before. Some things I did well on and
not so well on others, but that’s alright,
nobody is going to be perfect on everything. That’s the purpose of finding out
what you can do and what you can’t,” said
Katherine.
located in Clintonville, opened its doors
in 2001. Katherine was the first CPD
consumer to do a CBA at Pets Without
Parents and Amy said she enjoyed the
experience and feels it is a great program
for adults with disabilities that are looking for employment.
“I loved it. That experience made me
sure that I wanted to keep working with
animals,” said Katherine. After just two
weeks at Pets Without Parents, Katherine
was offered a full-time position.
“I’ve known Donna Foster for awhile
and she approached me about having a
consumer volunteer here. Kathy came in
and did a wonderful job, so it was great
for both of us that I was able to offer her
a job,” said Director, Amy Klavinger.
Pets Without Parents, a no-kill shelter
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Donna Foster-Sillanpaa checks in with
Katherine on a regular basis as part of
the 90-day follow up that CPD offers with
all job placements. “We stay with our
consumers for the first 90 days to ensure
that they are adjusting to their new environment and getting the support they
need to perform their job successfully,”
said Donna.
Of her experience with CPD, Katherine
said, “I enjoyed coming here. It was nice
to come into a place where people treat
you normally. On the outside, people
don’t always understand people with disabilities, but everyone here did. Donna
was wonderful, she’s my counselor but
we have become friends, too.”
Facts of Life
Teaching Children the Financial
Facts of Life
By Melinda Swift
Financial Advisor/
Financial Planning Specialist
Smith Barney - Chicago Office
1-800-621-2842
Make investing interesting by engaging
in conversation about companies that
provide popular children’s products such
as toys or clothing.
By default, parents are usually the primary source of a financial education.
However, many young people may
receive allowances—or even sizable
inheritances—without a sound base of
knowledge in saving, budgeting, investing and financial planning. To help the
children in your life develop a responsible
attitude about money, it might help to
consider these points:
Develop a Sense of Financial
Empowerment
Developing responsible spending habits
means encouraging well-thought-out
choices. Guide and advise rather than
dictate how money should be saved and
spent. Keep goals visible with pictures
or create charts that plot the growth of
funds needed. Take children on windowshopping trips to compare prices and
products and adopt the mind set that
every trip to a store is an exercise leading
to a potential purchase. To limit impulse
buying, consider instituting a rule that
prices and products are compared at a
minimum of three locations.
Be a Role Model
There is a significant relationship between the way children view money
and your own spending habits. Instead
of viewing money and personal finance
as a forbidden topic, discuss your own
financial goals and plans. The level and
amount of information shared is up to
you, but bring the younger generation
into at least a portion of your plans. How
you deal with money issues—from the
monthly bills to planning the family vacation of a lifetime—are important and
long-lasting lessons about money management and the value of money.
Give Unto Others
Involve children in your financial decisions regarding philanthropy. Discuss the
merits of gift applications you may have
received and weigh the advantages and
limits of each. Explain the tax advantages
of charitable giving but, at the same time,
stress the altruistic goals of giving. Even
a contribution to a canned food drive
or the creation of a holiday basket for a
needy family can grow into a family-wide
event. By helping children contribute
time or money to a charitable cause, you
can teach them that money is important
in ways other than personal consumption.
Encourage Savings & Investments
One of the simplest ways to encourage
a responsible attitude about money is
to encourage children to save. This could
include designating a portion of a child’s
allowance to a savings account, or making gifts of cash directly to an account in
their name. Discuss account statements
together, and stress the concept of “paying yourself first” with dedicated, regular
deposits. For younger children, set modest, attainable savings goals. For older
children, encourage the development of
a long-term savings plan for the purchase
of a large-ticket item like a computer or
car. Consider an occasional “matching
grant” to encourage regular deposits and
help keep goals visible. Take the time
to explain basic investment types such
as cash instruments, stocks and bonds.
Developing a sound knowledge of basic
financial practices can often go a long
way toward helping the children in your
life achieve lifelong financial security.
Melinda Sherman Swift is a Financial Advisor with Smith
Barney located in Chicago and may be reached at (312)
419-3275 or 1-800-621-2842.
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assumes a 15% capital gains tax rate.
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Patience Pays
Implant Ends Years of Suffering
The first time Sara Jo Hobson thought
she might have a hearing problem was
when she failed biology in the 9th grade.
It wasn’t until 8 years later, when Sara was
in her twenties, that she learned what was
causing her hearing loss.
At age 21 Sara was diagnosed with
Otosclerosis, a degenerative disease
process of the stapes in the middle ear
that causes abnormal bone growth. The
boney growth prevents the ear from
working properly and causes hearing
loss. The cause of Otosclerosis is not fully
understood but research suggests that it
is primarily a hereditary disease. After being diagnosed, Sara learned that her Aunt
also suffered from the condition.
As her hearing loss progressed, Sara
underwent multiple ear surgeries in an
effort to improve her hearing ability.
The surgeries didn’t have much effect
on Sara’s hearing loss - it was getting
progressively worse. After three unsuccessful surgeries Sara received her first set
of hearing aids from Columbus Speech &
Hearing Center.
“I remember
with my
first set
of hearing aids
it sounded like I
was in a
tunnel.
Karen was very, very patient with me
and kept adjusting the hearing aid for
me,” said Sara.
About 6 years ago Sara started to experience increased hearing difficulties.
Her Otosclerosis had progressed to the
point that she could no longer hear or
understand with her hearing aids. She
underwent a few more surgeries but,
again, they were not successful. Sara said,
“I couldn’t understand speech anymore,
I couldn’t hear on the phone either and
it was very frustrating.”
March 2008
Sound-It-Out
Pilot Program Emphasizes Literacy
Karen Mitchell, Au.D., Director of Audiology & Hearing Aid Services has been
Sara’s Audiologist for more than twenty
years. In 2003, Karen suggested that
she might be a candidate for a Cochlear
Implant and recommended an implant
candidacy evaluation. A cochlear implant
is an electronic hearing device designed
to produce useful hearing sensations
for a person with severe to profound
hearing loss by electrically stimulating
nerve fibers of the inner ear. After years
of frustration, in 2004 Sara had her first
successful surgery – cochlear implant
surgery.
“For the first time in years I was able to
sit in a circle with my family and hear
what they were saying. It was a 90%
turnaround from the way it used to be,“
said Sara.
Cochlear implants are not a one-sizefits-all solution, but often can make a
real difference for adults who suffer with
severe hearing loss and those who lose
their hearing late in life.
Today, three years after her surgery, Sara
is still thrilled that she is able to hear and
that she has been able to continue enjoying her life. She has maintained her job
as a Freight Bill Processor at ACASS for
the past 30 years and works part-time at
Mother Angeline McCory Manor, where
she helps residents with their day-to-day
activities and assists in the Café. Sara
said the best part has been her family’s
reaction – her nieces and nephews cheer,
“Aunt Sara can hear!”
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What is literacy? Is it simply the ability to
read and write? Although literacy is the
ability to read and write, it first encompasses a myriad of other important skills.
The process of learning to read and write
begins with an awareness of the sound
system of language, such as rhyming and
matching words with the same sounds,
an awareness of print in the environment
and the development of vocabulary and
oral language skills. Children who develop these essential skills in preschool
and kindergarten have the necessary
tools to become successful readers.
The American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association reports that 1 out of every 5
of school age children suffers from reading failures and that the majority of poor
readers have an early history of spokenlanguage deficits. Speech-language
pathologists play an important role in the
prevention of literacy problems.
During early speech and language development, children learn skills that are
important to the development of literacy.
This stage, known as emergent literacy,
begins at birth and continues through
preschool. Columbus Speech & Hearing Center has started a program called
Sound It Out (SIO) focusing on promoting
emergent literacy skills for children ages
4-5, specifically focusing on young children attending early childcare centers.
This project started with the Columbus
Early Learning Centers and will expand to
serve other community childcare centers
in the future. Through SIO Speech-Language Pathologists will spend 12 weeks
providing instruction and classroom
demonstrations for childcare providers
which will enrich literacy skills for all the
children in the class. In addition, Speech
Therapists conduct early literacy screenings on children in the daycare.
We know that to become competent
readers, young children need to have a
good grasp of oral language, as well as
an understanding of the fundamental
aspects of reading such as alphabet
knowledge, print concepts and phone5
mic awareness. Learning to speak is a
natural process – learning to read is not.
Children who have stimulating literacy
experiences from birth on have an edge
in vocabulary development, understanding the goals of reading and developing
an awareness of print and literacy concepts. Conversely, children who are most
at risk for reading failure enter kindergarten and the elementary grades without
these early experiences. In short, children
raised in poverty, those with limited
proficiency in English, those from homes
where the parents’ reading levels and
practices are low and those with speech,
language and hearing handicaps are at
increased risk of reading failure.
SIO, made possible through funding from
Honda of America Manufacturing, Inc.
and the Ingram White Castle Foundation, addresses United Way’s objective
of increasing the percentage of children
in central Ohio who enter kindergarten
physically, emotionally, cognitively and
socially ready to succeed in school.
SIO is offered at no charge to families with
children enrolled in the Columbus Early
Learning Center - North. Through the
preliminary speech-language screenings
we can identify children who may be at
higher risk for speech-language delays.
In addition to partnering to offer SIO,
Columbus Speech & Hearing Center also
works with the Columbus Early Learning
Center to offer on-site speech-language
therapy services. Speech-Language Pathologists conduct speech evaluations,
lead group and individual therapy and
offer classroom consultations on an ongoing basis.
Thank You For Your Generosity!
The following individuals, businesses and foundations made generous gifts to Columbus Speech & Hearing Center between
January 1, 2007 and December 31, 2007, providing much-needed operational support. We are grateful for your continued
support and apologize if we inadvertently missed your name. Please call 614.261.5413 with any corrections. Thank you!
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Blind of Ohio
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Ringle for Engineer
$25,000+
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Cedar Enterprises, Inc.
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Excellent Vending Service, Inc.
In Honor Of - I.H.O.
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In Memory Of - I.M.O.
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I.H.O Chris & Trina Allison
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Mark H. Shipps
$1,500-$4,999
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Delta Zeta Sorority House
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Grange Insurance Companies
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Hicks Partners, LLC
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JMAC, Inc
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KeyBank
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KPMG, LLP
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Blind of Ohio
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March
March 5 – Hanen Parent Programs FREE Orientation – 6 pm
March 6 – Latest Technology in Hearing Aids Seminar – 3 pm
March 13 – Hearing Aid Demonstration Day, 9 am – 4 pm by appointment.
April
April 2 – Hanen Parent Programs FREE Orientation – 6 pm
April 23 – First day of Talking and Learning About Kids – 6 pm
May
May 6 – Great Communicators featuring Cal Ripken Jr. – 11:30 am
May 7 – Hanen Parent Programs FREE Orientation – 6 pm
May 12 – First day of More Than Words - 6 pm
May 13 – First day of It Takes Two To Talk - 5 pm
May 20 – Latest Technology in Hearing Aids Seminar– 3 pm
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June 4 – Hanen Parent Programs FREE Orientation – 6 pm
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