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Show 4 , .".'.j i ' ... . , f-s-;;:v.:: i ; y I . m - C T .;- - i ... . ; l f . ' s't i; ,,Mf- : f ' j... 4 . .:& ''I :S,S;'::: j -. -.. -'J . '. hi ' ' f f ' , ' I 4 ' ' .:. : v &:;:..: ... -, r I , ; ; ' I ' ' r ' ft"1 ; v4 V ' . - 11 i iirr:':-:: I 1 .11 fcll (hearing assistance Showing two of the new machines to aid deaf students are, 1 to r, f Rosie Meservy, president of the Lady Lions of Bountiful; Melissa Winn, 11, deaf student who will use one of the auditory training systems; L. Glen Tonge, principal Bountiful Elementary School, where Melissa is a student; Thais Williams, hearing resource teacher Davis County Schools; and Clifford J. Lawrence, president Bountiful Lions Club. BOUNTIFUL The Bountiful Lions Club and the Bountiful Lady Lions have donated three machines to the Davis County School District to help deaf students in class. THE MACHINES, called Wireless Auditory Training Systems and manufactured in Salt Lake City by Com-Tek, Inc., 375 W. Lemel Circle, costing $500 each. Each system consists of a transmitter, which is to be worn by the deaf student's teacher and a receiver unit worn by the student which picks up the teacher's voice from as far away as 200 feet and retransmits the sound to the student's hearing aid worn in his ear. MELISSA WINN, 11, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Winn, Bountiful, was at Bountiful School recently during a presentation ceremony cere-mony in which Lions Club President Clifford J. Lawrence and Rosie Meservy, president of the Bountiful Lady Lions, gave the three units to Thais Williams, hearing resource teacher for the Davis County School District. Melissa, who is a sixth grader grad-er at Bountiful Elementary School, pinned the receiving unit to her shirt and tucked a battery power unit in her pocket. MRS. WILLIAMS spoke, to Milissa from across the room, out into the hall and around a corner and in each instance Milissa was able to hear Mrs. Williams well. Melissa, who has been partially par-tially deaf since birth, has been enrolled in regular school classes clas-ses since second grade and can read lips. Her mother said ' Melissa, who is classified as severly deaf, can hear very little lit-tle without a hearing aid. "She can hear only faint sounds, but no speech at all," Mrs. Winn said. "WITH A hearing aid she can hear speech, but not nearly as loudly as others do and she must rely to a great degree on reading lips," Melissa's mother added. With the use of the Wireless Auditory Trainer, Melissa can set anywhere in her classroom and hear her teacher without having to lip read. WITHOUT THE trainer aparatus, and using only her hearing aid, Melissa must be within 10-15 feet of her teacher to hear her and must augment her hearing aid with lip reading. The three auditory trainers, two donated by the Lions Club and the other by the Lady Lions, will be used throughout the county's school system to aid the more than 50 deaf students stu-dents in the district, Mrs. Williams Wil-liams said. |