LIMA, Ohio (WLIO) - The Lima Noon Sertoma Club held a special meeting to recognize National Speech-Language-Hearing Month.
The Lima Noon Sertoma Club is an organization that focuses on hearing loss and building communication skills. The club held a meeting to continue awareness for National Speech-Language-Hearing Month. Guest speaker Lynn Smallwood is a licensed speech-language pathologist from Wapakoneta with a passion for helping children find their voices. She educated the club on lesser-known speech disorders, as well as providing an insight to her ways of teaching.
"If you notice that your child is not communicating, not talking, not making a lot of sounds, and sometimes these families don't have anybody to compare them to because it's their first child and they don't really have a lot of friends or family with little kids. So, it's good to reach out just to see if a professional would be able to look at them, to see if there would be an issue or something like that," says Lynn Smallwood, Owner/Lead Speech-Linguist Pathologist for Speak Life Speech Therapy.
"There is a great need for hearing and speech in this community, and all throughout the nation, and we have great hearing and speech pathologists locally, and they do a great job and we need to support them," says Stephen Welly, President of the Lima Noon Sertoma Club.
The Lima Noon Sertoma Club continues to recognize and raise awareness for hearing and communication barriers through their various acts of service.
