Healthy Hearing (Audiology) Volunteer

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What we do: Help us provide hearing screenings to our Special Olympics athletes: children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Events occur year-round throughout the Tampa Bay area.

Who we need: Audiologists, Speech Language Pathologists and students, trained on-site to provide screenings.

Benefits of Helping Special Olympics Florida Healthy Community Healthy Hearing:

• Feeling good about helping those who cannot afford serviceor who did not know help was available to them
• Experiencing the joy of seeing athletes know if they have been diagnosed with hearing loss that help is available to them and they will be able to receive a free hearing aid from Special Olympics.
• Enjoying the camaraderie of working togetherwith a group of your fellow professionals
• Having the ability of increasing the number of patients in your practice: your practice will grow once word gets around that you work with persons with intellectual disabilities
• You can earn credit for hours volunteering if your school, agency, or professional organization requires it.