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Healthy Hearing

Special Olympics Healthy Hearing program is a free hearing screening designed to ensure proper audiological care for participating Special Olympics athletes.  Led by volunteer professionals, Healthy Hearing also provides tests for cerumen (ear wax) and otoacoustic emissions tests.

Healthy Hearing began in 1998 and is designed for the following purposes:

  1. To study the prevalence of hearing loss in athletes competing in Special Olympics events, and to report these findings as a means of highlighting the needs of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities

  2. To screen the hearing of athletes who participate in Special Olympics events; to notify them, their coaches and others if follow-up care is needed; and, whenever possible, to provide follow-up care on site at Special Olympics events

  3. To teach and train students, audiologists, physicians, health care providers and educators about hearing loss and ear health problems in individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and about solutions to these problems

In 2012, Healthy Hearing is being offered at the Indoor Sports Tournament at UW Oshkosh on April 14th and Summer Games at UW Stevens Point on Saturday, June 9th.

Clinical Directors

  • David Henry, PhD, CCC-A
  • Jane Elliott, MS CCC-A
  • Tami Gumz, AuD, CCC-SLP/A

More Information

Visit the Special Olympics Inc. Healthy Athletes Page

For more information on the Healthy Athletes Program, contact

Melissa Schoenbrodt
Phone: 608-442-5676
E-mail: mschoenbrodt@specialolympicswisconsin.org