Listen Foundation has an annual fundraising mail campaign each year called the Non-Event that has been going strong since 1994. Its popularity centers around supporting this amazing program in the comfort of one’s own home…no new dress….no babysitter….no rubber chicken…..no lengthy speeches. What’s not to love??!!
This year the Non-Event celebrates the amazing therapists who make Listening and Spoken Language therapy work.
Ask any parent of a Listen Foundation graduate, and they will tell you how incredible their therapist is and how well this therapy works. But, how often do we stop to think about each therapist’s commitment and how lucky the children, families, and education systems are because of what these unique individuals have committed to doing?
Auditory Verbal Therapy was created in 1969 by trailblazer Doreen Pollack in Denver, Colorado. The principles she developed are still the global standard for teaching deaf and hard-of-hearing children to learn to listen and talk. Becoming this kind of hearing & developmental specialist takes years of training. Very few individuals in the world match the dedication and quality of the Listen Foundation therapists, beginning with founder Doreen Pollock, carried on by her students, to the therapists of today.
These miracle workers serve in families’ lives weekly for years, coaching and guiding parents & children through the steps of making meaning out of sound and giving children with hearing loss access to listening, language, reading, mainstreamed schools and lives of independence just like their typical hearing peers.
Please help us acknowledge these heroes who have chosen this unique awe-inspiring work by not dressing up for an event or buying a ticket but instead honoring these incredible therapists with a gift to the 2023 Non-Event Campaign to support the therapy and programming they provide. Just click on the donate button at the top of this page!
Visit the 2023 Non-Event page for photos, more information, and the opportunity to leave a comment for your favorite therapist.