January 14, 2005

Mrs. Joanne Travers, Director
Partners for A Greater Voice
Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Dear Mrs. Travers:

On behalf of Instituto de Ayuda al Sordo Santa Rosa, an organization dedicated to helping deaf children in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to Partners for a Greater Voice for their support through the program Professional Development for Parents and Teachers on Auditory Knowledge, offered from December 5 to 10, 2004.

More than 90 families and 32 teachers participated at this excellent program and learned how to effectively support children with their different degrees of hearing loss. This project also included training for the executive and technical staff, individual sessions for teachers about therapy, and techniques on auditory development and speech, which represented an extraordinary contribution towards our goal.

We greatly value the literature provided, which was translated into Spanish to facilitate workshops and meetings, as well as the support material generously donated to work on individual therapy and groups of deaf students.

Our special recognition goes to Jane Driscoll, Lindsay Rodriguez and Barbara Manning, as members of the professional team, for their excellent input to the Dominican families and our personnel, as well as their high motivation, remarkable dedication and generosity.

Finally, we rate Partners for a Greater Voice Professional Development project (December 2004) as highly positive for our organization and the Dominican Republic. It provided to our human resources essential knowledge on auditory and speech areas which was missing before. We honestly feel this has been one of the best trainings ever received, since it articulated theory and practice in such a way that comprehension and participation were a lot easier.

Please receive our gratitude and appreciation for this outstanding contribution.

Sincerely,

María Consuelo de Pérez Bernal, President
Onelia Aybar, Director