Florida Financial Assistance

Local Service Clubs such as Lion?s, Rotary, Kiwanis, and Sertoma frequently are open to considering providing funds or matching funds to support hearing aids and services for children residing in their communities. Contact people for these clubs can often be found in your local telephone book.

The Sertoma Speech and Hearing Foundation of Florida (SSHF) has been providing financial support in Pinellas County and the surrounding area for many years and has a keen interest in assisting financially-needy families with infants that have been referred from newborn hearing screening programs. It is feasible that this financial support may reach beyond the Pinellas area. Contacting the SSHF office and requesting an application for the services and products listed below can request funding. In certain areas of the state families may be referred to a provider specified by the SSHF. Call for more information.

If you have private insurance, you will want to check about the coverage for your child?s needs including audiology testing, hearing aids, follow-up services, and speech/ language/auditory therapy. It may be necessary to advocate and educate insurance companies and/or your employer in order to obtain any coverage for your child?s needs.

Sertoma Speech & Hearing Foundation of FL, Inc.
5640 Main Street
New Port Richey, FL 34652
Contact: Craig McCart / Tammy Rostel
Phone: 727-848-5371
Fax: 727-534-5419
Email: mccart@allkids.org

National Funding Sources
 

A G Bell
www.agbell.org
Resources for financial assistance include habilitation, rehabilitation services, hearing aids and other assistive devices.

The Lions Clubs International
300 22nd Street
Oak Brook, IL 60521
(708) 571-5466

Children?s Hearing Aid Bank
Hearing Aid Foundation, Inc.
20361 Middlebelt
Livonia, MI 48152
(800) 521-5247

Miracle Ear Children?s Foundation
P.O. Box 59261
Minneapolis, MN 55459-0261
(800) 234-5422

Disabled Children?s Relief Fund (DCRF)
PO Box 7420
Freeport, NY 11520
Promotes the growth and development
of children with disabilities, increases
public awareness and supports efforts that strengthen compliance with state and federal laws for the benefit of
children with disabilities.

Piolet International
244 College Street
PO Box 4844
Macon, GA 31213-0599
(912) 743-7403

AUDIENT Alliance for Accessible Hearing Health Care
www.audientalliance.org

The Starkey Fund
6700 Washington Ave. .SO
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
1-800-328-8602

Hear Now
9745 E. Hampden Avenue
Suite 300
Denver, CO 80321
(303) 695-7797

Quota International
1420 21st Street NW
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 331-9694

Kiwanis, International
3636 Woodview Place
Indianapolis, IN 46268-3196
(317) 875-8755
(800) 549-2647

Rotary International
1 Rotary Center
1560 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201
(708) 866-3000

SSI
1-800-772-1213
Pure Tone Average must be greater than 90 dB and aided discrimination less than 40%.

The HIKE Fund (Hearing Impaired
Kids Endowment Fund) International Center for Job?s Daughters
233 W. 6th Street
Papillion, NE 68046
Provides hearing devices for children
with hearing impairment from newborn
through 20 years of age, whose parents are financially unable to meet this special need.