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HISTORY
All Ears! Center, located in The Woodlands, TX, is a nonprofit organization where experts guide children and families along their hearing loss journey towards mainstream education, heightened literacy, and lifelong independence. All Ears! offers pediatric audiology, advanced hearing technology, specialized speech therapy, and family-focused parent education. Early intervention is critical, particularly in the period between a child’s birth and three years of age. These years are full of experiences and information that shape a child’s brain, and sound-rich environments play a major role.
All Ears! Center opened in 2014 as a partner program with the Early Learning Program (ELP) preschool located at The Woodlands Community Presbyterian Church, providing an educational environment and support for families who choose listening and spoken language as a communication option for their child with hearing loss.
All Ears! Center began with just six children, but now serves patients from 152 unique zip codes across Texas, including families driving from McAllen, TX, and Abilene, TX — nearly 400 miles and six hours from the All Ears! Center clinic!
EXPANSION IMPACT
Two to three of every thousand babies are born with hearing loss. To put this in local terms, in Montgomery County and Harris County, there are 72,000 babies born annually. This means that nearly 225 babies will be born with hearing loss.2
Existing infrastructure is inadequate to serve the needs of communities across the Greater Houston area and beyond. The post-newborn hearing screening follow up rate in the region is only 52%. Simply put, that is leaving babies behind.
Our new expansion campaign will allow All Ears! Center, which currently provides care to over 1,000 patients, to double capacity and serve over 2,000 children.
- Each new audiologist will allow for 840 more audiology appointments a year:
- Ability to serve 300 more children and their families
- Increased amount of auditory brainstem response (ABR) exams, which diagnose newborns with hearing loss
- 60 more auditory brainstem response (ABR) exams, which diagnose newborns with hearing loss
- Each new speech therapist hired will allow for up to 1,000 more appointments a year:
- Services and support for 40 more families with children aged 0-5
- Increased preparation for mainstream education for 34 more children
1) https://www.heaIthyhearing.com/report/52814-hearing-loss-statistics-at-a-glance
2) https://heaIthdata.dshs.texas.gov/dashboard/births-and-deaths/live-births
