HEARING AID LENDING PROGRAM
Hearing loss is overwhelming for Children and Adults. Not being able to get a hearing aid is distressing.
The Hearing Aid Program is for everyone! Children, Adults, Elderly, Veterans... if you do not have quality hearing and do not have a funding source for hearing aids, we can help you! The Hearing Aid Program can provide one, behind the ear hearing aid to individuals in need. Application approvals are subject to the availability of donated hearing aids, funding, economic status of individual applying and the assistance of qualified audiologists across South Dakota.
To Receive Hearing Aids:
1) Request an application from your local South Dakota CARES office or the South Dakota CARES corporate office by calling 1-800-592-1852. Return the completed application to:
South Dakota CARES
1351 N. Harrison Avenue
Pierre, SD 57501
After receiving your application in the corporate office, South Dakota CARES staff will review the information. If you are approved, we will send you a letter confirming acceptance to the program. Once you have received this approval letter, please visit your nearest audiologist for a hearing test. Present the letter so they know that you have been approved for a free hearing aid from South Dakota CARES.
One over-the-ear hearing aid will be furnished to you if a proper match is available in the Hearing Aid Bank. South Dakota CARES asks that the hearing aid be donated back to South Dakota CARES when there is no longer a need for it.
If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-592-1852.
Julia Jones, MS, CCC, Audiology Associates in Pierre, South Dakota, volunteers her time and special skills in matching up hearing aids from the South Dakota CARES hearing aid bank to people who are in need of hearing aids.