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Fundacion pa Esnan cu Problema di Oido

Active in these sectors:

Provides services for: Children, Youngsters, Elderly, People with disability, Adults

The foundation is managed by an office manager and employs a speech therapist, a hearing therapist and an administrative assistant. There is also a counselor for hearing-impaired children in mainstream education. The object of the foundation is to do everything to promote the physical, mental, social and material well-being of the hard of hearing and deaf in Aruba. It seeks to do so by: performing hearing tests, providing social guidance, speech therapy and educational assistance and providing hearing aids to its clients. The foundation is also responsible for the coordination and rehabilitation of cochlear implants in children and adults.
The foundation is financed to a small degree by Land Aruba; other income proceeds from donations, membership fees and the like.

Purpose of the organization

The object of the foundation is to do everything to promote the physical, mental, social and material well-being of the hard of hearing and deaf in Aruba.

Services/Activities

Services
- Hearing tests
- Making ear molds
- Ordering, customizing, maintaining and repairing hearing aids
- Mediating in the funding of hearing aids
- Speech therapy for clients
- Social guidance for clients and their parents/caretakers
- Educational assistance to children with hearing impairments in mainstream education
- Mediation and coordination of the Cochlear Implantation Team Aruba for a cochlear implant (CI) for adults and children.
- Speech therapy rehabilitation of clients, adults and children with a cochlear implant.