Hearing Support Christchurch

Welcome
Our expanding team who is focused on educating about hearing loss is now community-based. If you or your organisation would like a presentation on how to look after your hearing now, please contact us on 022 516 2063.
For hearing aid advice, and if you usual audiologist/hearing clinic can't help, contact the awesome team at
Life Unlimited, 0800 008 011.
Life Unlimited also has a range of Assisted Listening Devices.

"Can you hear the birds singing?"

Get In touch
About Us
How Can We Help

Email

hearingchch@xtra.co.nz

Phone

022 516 2063

Postal Address (only)

640 Burnt Hill Road
RD 1
Oxford
7495

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.

Who are we?
Hearing Education Canterbury is a non profit, non government funded 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 Education Canterbury is coordinated by the President, the Board and the Services Co-ordinator. The Services Co-ordinator looks after the day to day running of the organisation.

How we can help?
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
Sale of items that may assist you such as badges

Rest Home Programme
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.
Hear This (incorporating Dangerous Decibels Programme)
The Programme aims to educate children in Years 4 to 8 about the ear, hearing, decibels and how to prevent noise induced hearing loss. The presentations are educational, scientific, fun and interactive!
Presentations to Community Groups
We can speak to your Community Group on anything relating to hearing loss.
We're involved in other projects that include:

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 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 (we can post these to you free of charge).