How You Can Help
How Does Your Support Make a Difference?
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The tangible impact of your support on human life, career success, and community is IMMEASURABLE! Your support helps Bolesta to:
- Provide our core Listening and Spoken Language Therapy Program to help deaf children learn to communicate exclusivly through spoken language.
- Grant approximately $25,000 annually in financial assistance for therapy services to families in need.
- Eliminate the personal, social, academic, and economic toll of deafness.
- Help promising young deaf students achieve academic success along with their hearing peers.
- Reduce the public educational costs of educating the deaf from $25,000 annually to $6,785.
- Close the gap between chronological age and language age in children who are deaf and hard of hearing, resulting in the attainment of linguistic competency at levels equal to their hearing peers.
- Increase the earning potential of the deaf who communicate with spoken language by 30% over individuals who sign or lip-read, adding $2.5 billion annually to the U.S. economy.
- Provide training opportunities for industry professionals and public school personnel so children everywhere can benefit from needed services.
- Allow kids to be . . . well, just kids. This means they can attend mainstream schools and classrooms, participate in sports, sing, dance, talk on the phone, play musical instruments, and participate in all other activities available to their hearing peers.
In Fact . . . You'd Never Know They're Deaf!
