Wake Up With Karen Bryant

The Hearing, Speech and Deafness Center (HSDC) is pleased to announce the Wake Up with Karen! special fundraising breakfast event taking place at the Westin Hotel in downtown Seattle on June 2,2006. Karen Bryant, the COO of the Seattle Storm and the keynote speaker, is perhaps best known for taking the Storm to a 2004 WNBA Championship – a team she helped launch in 1999. A member of a 1984 state championship girls’ basketball team herself, her exemplary synthesis of business, athletics and community involvement is inspirational and we are excited she is taking the time to be there.

This breakfast will benefit HSDC’s new Family Preschool Program for deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing children. Quality communication and quality education take a family. That approach is what makes the nationally recognized Parent-Infant Program (PIP) special, and has helped make thousands of deaf, deaf-blind and hard of hearing children successful. With leadership grants from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and The Boeing Company, HSDC will soon open a new Family Preschool Program (FPP). As HSDC approaches its 70th anniversary in 2007, this nonprofit agency invites you to be a part of the next step.

To register, go to hsdc.org and click on “Wake Up with Karen!”
HSDC is an accredited, nationally unique organization. Serving the Puget Sound area with professional services since 1937, the Center’s impact extends much farther, not only through the lives of clients and friends, but through the recognition of their Parent-Infant Program (PIP) as a national model for early intervention and the assistive communication devices provided nationwide through The Store @ HSDC. The Center fosters a proactive approach to communication issues, offering an integrated network of services and addressing the resonance of hearing loss, speech impairment and deafness on the individual, family, workplace and community. Their mission is “to enrich the lives of all adults and children who experience hearing loss, speech and language impairments, or who are deaf, by providing professional services and technology and by promoting community awareness and accessibility.”