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About Pee Dee Speech and Hearing
With the help of many wonderful volunteers, Pee Dee Speech and Hearing Center has served over 300,000 individuals over the past 50+ years. In 1968 the Center was established to assist those with speech-language and hearing problems. Within the confines of the Center was a very active preschool for the hearing impaired as well as a full diagnostic audiology clinic and speech-language clinic. To this date, we continue to provide these same services with the exception of the preschool (the public schools and other government agencies have assumed this role). The Center has also added an outreach hearing conservation program designed to help prevent hearing loss due to excessive noise exposure.
Pee Dee Speech and Hearing Center continues to thrive and serve the Pee Dee region and beyond. Staffed by a well-trained and experienced group of dedicated people who believe strongly that effective communication (speech and hearing) is an essential human need and, as such, a basic human right. Without it, no individual or community can exist or prosper.
Eight-month-old Kenneth hears for the first time with his new hearing aids
Pee Dee Speech & Hearing Center Board of Directors (circa 1980)
Allen Lewis, Sandra Morris, Frances Johnson, Betty Ann Chase, Peggy Stokes, Dr. Douglas Snowden, Mary Hepburn, Ann Thomas, Mary Alice Busch, Jacque Miller, Amy Tallon, Cookie Ryan, Jill Heiden and Dr. Carlana Hendrick. Not pictured Marilyn Stokes, Dr. Lawrence Chewning, Thomas Grossman, Mike Hogan, Ann Bird, Fred Avent, Betty Woodward, Meade Brockington, Parks Garrison, Lana Ross, and Michael Biediger.
Bob Hope and General William C. Westmoreland, US Army arriving at the Florence Airport in 1977 to attend a benefit to raise funds for the new Pee Dee Speech & Hearing Center building on Baroody Street. Hope, one of the world's most famous actor/comedians, delighted crowds at the fund-raising event held at Francis Marion College.
LINKS TO MORE RESOURCES
United Way United Way of Florence -- www.uwflorence.org
Audiology
Associations/Organizations
Alexander Graham Bell Association – www.agbell.org
American Academy of Audiology – www.audiology.org
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association – www.asha.org
American Tinnitus Association – www.ata.org
Boys Town Research Hospital – www.boystownhospital.org
National Center for Hearing Assessment & Management – www.infanthearing.org
Hearing Loss Association of America – www.hearingloss.org
Hearing Protection
ABC Safety – www.abcsafetymart.com
Etymotic Research, Inc. – www.etymotic.com
Macks Earplugs and Swim plugs – http://www.macksearplugs.com/
“Tinnitus Distraction” Devices (sound machines)
Brookstone – www.brookstone.com
Sleep Machines – www.sleepmachines.com
Tinnitus Treatment
Tinnitus Retraining Therapy – www.tinnitus.org
Tinnitus Retraining Therapy – http://www.tinnitus-pjj.com/
Assistive Listening Devices
Adco Hearing Products – www.adcohearing.com
Harris Communications – www.harriscomm.com
Silent Call Communications – www.silentcall.com
Speech-Language Pathology
Autism
Autism Society of America – www.autism-society.org
Wrightslaw – www.wrightslaw.com
National Autism Association – www.nationalautismassociation.org
Autism Speaks – www.autismspeaks.org
South Carolina Autism Society – http://www.scautism.org
Articulation
Starfall – www.starfall.com
Linguisystems – www.linguisystems.com
Super Duper Publications – www.superduperinc.com
Language
Linguisystems – www.linguisystems.com
Super Duper Publications – www.superduperinc.com
The Hanen Centre – www.hanen.org
Professional Organizations
American Speech-Language Hearing Association – www.asha.org
South Carolina Board of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology www.llr.state.sc.us/pol/speech/
Literacy
Starfall – www.starfall.com
Reading Rockets – www.readingrockets.org
Wrightslaw – www.wrightslaw.com
LD Online – www.ldonline.com
Bright Solutions for Dyslexia, Inc. – www.dys-add.com
The International Dyslexia Association – www.interdys.org
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development – www.nichd.nih.gov
Stuttering
The Stuttering Foundation – www.stutteringhelp.org
National Stuttering Association – www.nsastutter.org
Apraxia / Oral Motor
Apraxia-Kids – www.apraxia-kids.org