Hearing Discovery Center

Distinctive Services for Individuals with Hearing Loss

The Hearing Discovery Center (HDC) helps older adults respond to the leading disability of aging – hearing loss – through support, counseling, informational resources, educational programs and a free lending library of assistive listening devices.

The Hearing Discovery Center is a branch of the Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Lending Library and a member of the Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), and the American Tinnitus Association (ATA).


Free Lending Library
In a one to two- week trial, borrowers can determine whether a device meets their needs before buying the device on the open market. Some examples of devices the HDC lends out include:
• Amplified telephones
• Smoke alarms with strobe lights
• Flashing alarm clocks
• TTY’s
• Personal listening system (FM system or the Listenaider)
The HDC does not sell or buy hearing aids but as a collection site for the Hearing Now Foundation, old hearing aids can be refurbished and given to those in need.

 

Support Groups
The Hearing Discovery Center organizes the Hearing Loss Association of Delaware County, usually the 1st Sunday of the month (September through June) 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. and a Tinnitus Support Group quarterly (January, April, July and October) 7:00 p.m.

 

Location
The Hearing Discovery Center is located at the Friendship Circle Senior Center which is located at:

1515 Lansdowne Avenue,
Darby, PA 19023.
Contact information: Donna Schumacher, Program Coordinator
Email: dschumacher@scs-delco.org
Phone : 610-237-6222 x 56
TTY/FAX : 610- 237-1504

 

Directions:
Coming from I-95 and Main St. Darby, proceed up Main St. This becomes Lansdowne Ave. as you cross MacDade Blvd. From this direction you come to the Hospital overpass at the traffic light. There you turn right to pass the Medical Office Building and Mercy Wellness Center. Proceed into the parking lot and on to Friendship Circle as described above.

SEPTA Bus route 113 from 69th St. Terminal stops at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital. From the bus stop walk past the Medical Office Building, pass through the parking lot and continue to the Friendship Circle red brick building beyond the parking lot. The bus runs every 30 min. from the 69th St. Terminal or the Marcus Hook end of the line via Darby.

 

Resources for Hearing Loss

For information on Cochlear Implants