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Email
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Phone
03-341 6705
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Address
275 Riccarton Road
Christchurch 8041 Office hours: Tuesday-Friday: 9am-3pm |
Our mission
To offer an excellent, sustainable service to all those who are hearing impaired and to those associated with them, in order to enhance their immediate and future expectations and potential.
To offer an excellent, sustainable service to all those who are hearing impaired and to those associated with them, in order to enhance their immediate and future expectations and potential.
Who are we?
Christchurch Hearing Support is a voluntary organisation formed in 1938. Hearing Associations throughout New Zealand offer unbiased information about hearing matters to all, and a valuable first-port-of-call to the hearing impaired, their families and friends.
We rely on donations, subscriptions and grants to maintain our work. Bearing this in mind our web site has been created to provide you with information, references and assistance to hearing problems.
The work of Hearing Support Christchurch is coordinated by the President, the board and the manager. The manager and the services coordinator look after the day to day running of the group.
Christchurch Hearing Support is a voluntary organisation formed in 1938. Hearing Associations throughout New Zealand offer unbiased information about hearing matters to all, and a valuable first-port-of-call to the hearing impaired, their families and friends.
We rely on donations, subscriptions and grants to maintain our work. Bearing this in mind our web site has been created to provide you with information, references and assistance to hearing problems.
The work of Hearing Support Christchurch is coordinated by the President, the board and the manager. The manager and the services coordinator look after the day to day running of the group.
How we can help?
We can assist you in the following ways:
We can assist you in the following ways:
- Provide information on what/who is available to assist you in your daily activities and where and how to access.
- Provide information and demonstrate Assistive Listening Devices that may help you each day, such as telephones, TV, alarm clocks, personal listening devices.
- We can arrange for you to trial these devices in your own home for a short time before you decide what works best in your situation.
- In some cases (if you fit our criteria) we can assist financially to help you to own your own hearing device.
- Sale of hearing aid batteries at competitive prices - all sizes catered for.
- Sale of other miscellaneous items that may assist you such as badges.
- We provide a service to Rest Homes to assist Rest Home Residents who struggle to clean and/or maintain their hearing aids. Our Field Worker visits facilities on a regular basis to carry out this essential work.
- Working with Hearing NZ to improve services and facilities for the hearing impaired, and to raise the profile of the association which is the premier organisation representing people with this disability.
- Producing and distributing items such as the yellow Customer hearing Stands that encourage both customers and staff to assist one-another in communicating effectively. Also Wallet Cards that the hearing impaired can carry with them in order to alert others of their difficulty in communicating and how people can best help (you may pick either of these up free of charge at our rooms).
- The organisation and implementation of workshops relating to issues affecting the hearing impaired, such as Tinnitus, Communications Skills (etc).
- Promotion of valuable services such as Captioned Movies and TV Subtitles.
Meet Our Team
Here are your contacts at the Hearing Support Christchurch.
PAULINE MARSHALL Manager |
MARIE SUTTON Services Co-ordinator |
BEVERLY PETERSON FIELD WORKER |
Locate us
Further information
Off-street parking or catch the bus! Our premises has a bus-stop outside, and is located conveniently on four bus routes; the Orbiter, the Yellow line, the Purple line & bus No. 130.
Off-street parking or catch the bus! Our premises has a bus-stop outside, and is located conveniently on four bus routes; the Orbiter, the Yellow line, the Purple line & bus No. 130.