The Hear, Hear PEI Planning
Committee is excited to announce that we will be ready to start accepting applications for
hearing aids this month as we put the final pieces of the program into place.
We are very excited to get going!
When we’re ready to officially
launch the program we will announce it here and in the media. For now, though, there
are some steps that you can take to prepare if you are planning to apply to the
Hear, Hear PEI Hearing Aid Assistance Program.
They are:
1.
Determine if you meet the Program’s financial
criteria: Annual
HOUSEHOLD income: Single person family - $20,000 or less; two person family -
$30,000 or less; add an additional $10,000 income allowance for each dependent
child (i.e. two parents with one child = $40,000 or less household income).
2.
If you meet the financial criteria, get a referral
for a hearing test from your family physician,
nurse practitioner, public health nurse, or speech language pathologist
so that the cost is covered by the Province (we do not cover the cost of
hearing tests). A copy of a recent
hearing test (less than 12 months old) has to accompany your application form
so this is an important step.
3.
When you have your referral, contact PEI
Hearing Consultants, our partner clinic, at 902-629-8834 to set up your
appointment with Steve Wong for the hearing test.
4.
Steve will have our application forms there and
will fill in his section of the document after your test is completed.
5.
You will then take the application home to fill
in the remainder. Incomplete applications
will not be accepted so please be sure to include everything that is required.
Our selection committee will meet
in mid March to review the first round of applications so get your completed
application in as soon as possible. We decided to post these steps tonight so
that you will have an adequate amount of time to prepare.
Every effort was made to keep
the cost of the hearing aid program as low as possible. As a result, we are so
pleased to tell you that we are able to offer hearing aids to our successful
applicants for $100 a pair! A custom ear mold may require an extra cost.
Mike and I would like to
extend a huge thank you to Steve Wong from PEI Hearing Consultants and Annie
Lee MacDonald from the PEI Chapter of the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association for
all of their work and dedication in developing the Program with us. We couldn’t
have asked for a better planning committee and we certainly couldn’t have done all
of this without them!! Thank you Steve and Annie Lee!
A big thank you also goes out
to our hearing aid donors! We appreciate each and every one of you!!
Finally, as always, we are
looking for donations of used hearing aids. The number of people we can help each
month is dependent on the number of hearing aids we get donated. Please help to
spread the word!!
If you have any questions,
please email us at hearhearpei@gmail.com.
Thanks,
Rose and Mike
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