Biden Opens Up On Stuttering
Last week, Vice President Joe Biden made an appearance on The View and spoke about his experiences stuttering. In an emotional moment, Biden said, “when you stutter, it’s the most debilitating thing, It’s hard to ask ‘will you go to the pr-pr-pr-pr-prom.’ They look at and go ‘this guy must be an idiot.’” We commend Biden for…
Better Hearing and Speech Month Coming Soon!
May 1st marks the start of Better Hearing and Speech Month – a month of recognition and awareness of hearing and speech disorders, and the professions that work closely with them. Our annual celebration kicks off in all three offices with free earplugs! Make sure to drop by and pick up your free pair starting…
Taking Hearing Health Home
If you’ve been in our offices you’ve probably heard one of our audiologists speaking about the importance of ear protection and hearing health. Have you ever wondered if they take their own advice to heart? Well Doctor Lokanis wanted to share with all of you how her family protects their hearing. This weekend her family…
ASHA Health Care and Business Institute
This past weekend Speech Program Director Maryam Sadrzadeh and Marketing Director Jody Norwood attended the American Speech Language and Hearing Association’s (ASHA) Health Care and Business Institute in downtown Seattle. The two-day conference brought together educators, clinic directors, office personnel and speech-language pathologists for clinical updates and business updates. Highlights of the weekend included; strategies for managing cognitive impairment,…
New Interactive Site for Teens
Searching the internet today we came across a new site launched this weekend for people to share their stories, thoughts and inspirations on hearing loss. The site is aimed toward teens and was created as an Eagle Scout Project by a young hearing impairded man named David. The site, deafteens.org allows teens, parents and professionals…
Happy Administrative Professionals Day
We want to thank each and every one of our administrative professionals at ESHC for all of their hard work! Our fabulous team of front and back office personel runs the office smoothly day to day allowing us to make a difference in the lives of others. This Administrative Professionals Day we want to thank…
ESHC Celebrates National Volunteer Week
Did you know that this week (April 18-24) is National Volunteer Week? The week was declared in 1974, and calls people throughout the nation into action to help others. ESHC is celebrating this week by digging in and putting together over 7500 earplugs to be distributed throughout the month of May for Better Hearing and…
World Voice Day
Today is World Voice Day, a day celebrated by speech-language pathologiists, otolaryngologists, head and neck suregons along with other voice health professionals world wide. The awareness day encourages men and women, young and old to assess their vocal health and take action to improve or maintain good voice habits. In celebration, we wanted to share…
Free Speech and Language Screenings
The speech team, in celebration of Better Hearing and Speech Month, is offering local preschools and daycare centers the opportunity to host a speech and language screening at their site free of charge. Screenings are helpful in identifying children who need a more thorough assessment. Speech-language screenings are brief, relaxed and simple to conduct! The therapists will…
ESHC Featured in LACE Newsletter
Last week we were asked by Auditory Rehabilitation software company LACE to be featured in their upcoming newsletter. The newsletter is sent out to 4,000 audiologists and medical practices around the country. LACE asked our audiologists and audiology assistants to give tips to other practices on how our program is run, and the steps we…