2023-2024 Board of Directors
- President, Tiffany Ingles, Indiana
- Vice President/Financial Secretary, John Vezeau, Missouri
- Executive Secretary, John Hauser, Iowa
- Treasurer, Karen Rudolph, Wisconsin
- First Reader, Ellen Garrabrant, Virginia
- Director, Merchandise and Promotions, Doris Edwards, Nebraska
- Assistant, Merchandise, Gabriela Conrad-Distasio, Virginia
- Webmaster and Social Media Communications, Kristina DeLosReyes, DelMar
- Administrative Secretary, Donna Goede, Missouri
- Director, Coordinators and Fundraising, Sue Nickerson, DelMar
- Director, Fraternal Relations, Ray Bacchus, Virginia
- Director, Jewelry and Incentives, Vicki Loughmiller, Indiana
- Assistant, Jewelry and Incentives, Peggy Rendt, Washington
- Member at Large, Todd Campbell, Wisconsin
Support Services and Special Projects Support Committee
- Assistant, First Reader, Claudia Hauser, Iowa
- Leslie Hoglund, Virginia
- Audiologist – Consultant, Diana Hanson, MS, CCC-A, Iowa
Can HIKE fund help to cover cost towards a cochlear implant? I have an Amish family who is in need of funding.
Diana, we do not provide grant awards for cochlear implant, due to the internal nature of the device. Our mission is to provide support for external assistive hearing devices and equipment.
Hello! I work in Early Intervention and I have a 5 month old born with microtia. Would you help with a BAHA? What if the family makes over the amount of money you say so they don’t qualify for assistance? Is there still a way to get assistance or do you know another organization that would help no matter how much the family makes? Thanks!
Karen, thank you for reaching out. We support hearing aids and assistive hearing devices or communication tools. Because BAHA is an implanted device, we do not provide financial support. We recently increased the maximum gross earned income amount to $125,000, so we would not be able to review applications over this amount. We encourage you to reach out to the NIDCD Information Clearinghouse for more resources: https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/clearinghouse.
Thank you for your response. Actually a BAHA is not a implanted device, it is a hearing aid just a bone conductive hearing aid. Thank you for the new information, we will check that out. And just out of curiosity, why is there a max income. Just because a family makes more money doesn’t mean that they have the means to buy a $8000 piece of hearing device that would benefit their child.