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The holiday season is upon us as is the end of the first ranking period of the school year. As report cards come home throughout the school year take a moment to review your child's Individual Education Plan or 504 plan. (As a part of these plans, you should have yearly meetings with your child's teacher as well as any specialists who work with him or her). If you have any questions about the grades your child has received or the work, call your child's teacher and request a meeting. Many teachers will do a phone conference with you if a face to face meeting is inconvenient. Not only are you your child's best advocate, you may also be the person with the most knowledge about how deaf and hard of hearing children learn.

Here are two websites that I have found that have helped me to understand how the Deaf and hard of hearing learn: www.babyhearing.org/LanguageLearning/index.asp and www.as.wvu.edu/~scidis/hearing.html

Happy Holidays from my family to yours!

Deb Pinkham serves on the Warren Center’s Board of Directors and is a teacher at the Mary Snow School in Bangor.

This year marked the tenth anniversary of our purchase of our home at 175 Union Street in Bangor. We moved into the building from a rented space less than half the size. We didn’t even furnish some of the rooms for nearly a year after moving.

Due to the faith the community has placed in our services, we have grown over these ten years to the position of now being quite overcrowded at times. In the last year we have rented place in two other locations to accommodate our programming.
Our audiology program was new ten years ago. Today we have two very busy audiologists using two testing booths. Over the past year we have set a new record almost every month for the number of new referrals received.

Some days it is a challenge to meet the demands of this growth, but that is a good problem to have. We would like to say thank you to all the clients, physicians, board members, community members, and staff who have made this growth possible.

This is one of our most commonly asked questions. Children frequently need new earmolds every few months or at least yearly because they are growing. Parents might notice a gap at the back of the earmold where it fills the bowl portion of the ear, this is a good indication that a child is ready for a new pair of earmolds.

In adults, although the ears will continue to grow, the change is more subtle. If the earmold starts to feel loose in the ear or if you are experiencing more feedback than what is normal for you its a good idea to check the fit of your earmold with your audiologist.

Earmolds, even those that are fitting well, need tubing changes over time. When the earmold tubing becomes hard or difficult to bend call your audiologist for an appointment to have the earmold retubed.
This is a great time of year to check and make sure your earmolds are fitting before the cold weather sets in.

Written by Warren Center Audiologist Dr. Amanda Samoluk, CCC-A & Dr. Kim Starkey, CCC-A
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Straight from Maine kitchens, here is a collection of recipes to suit every taste. From Moxie floats to the Governor’s recipe for Pasta Carbonara the Warren Center Cookbook has it! It features over 100 recipes from staff, community members and clients. All proceeds from the spiral bound cookbook will benefit the Warren Center’s speech and hearing programs.

“The cookbook is not only a beautiful book full of delicious recipes, but all of the proceeds from sales of the cookbook go directly back to the center,” Program Director and cookbook editor MaryBeth Richards says. “Funds from the cookbooks will assist the Warren Center in helping the residents of greater Bangor hear and speak better.”
The cookbook can be purchased at the center for $8.00 or ordered by phone for an additional $2.00 for shipping and handling. Beautifully bound it has a variety of colorful and tasty appetizers, entrees and desserts.

For more information: call the center at #941-2850 or email masaxl@warrencenter.org. Don’t forget your name and contact information.
Cookbooks can also be found locally in Bangor at Rebecca’s, Grasshopper Shop, St. Joseph Hospital Gift Shop, Lippincott Books, BookMarcs, Bangor House of Pizza, Shepherd’s Path, Lamb’s Bookstore, Frank’s Bakery, Miller Drug Store, and at Mr. Paperback; Ellsworth, Bangor,and Dover-Foxcroft, and Whole Life Natural Market, Machias.

She provides services for both children and adults. To arrange an appointment for

We have a new satellite office in Piscataquis County.

We have served the county for many years at on site locations.

Now Speech Pathologist Judy Sternal can see clients like Maxwell in a private

space at the Charlotte White Center on Main Street in Dover-Foxcroft.

Clinical Director Amy Bragg and her husband Ron help out
Designer Paul DiMeo at the Maine Extreme Makeover location.