Our Mission
To educate, inspire and demonstrate the unlimited abilities of people with hearing loss and give them the opportunity to live inclusively and to their full potential.
Our Purpose
Soundwrx is committed to creating more inclusive lives for people with hearing loss starting by identifying all of them in our schools.
Our Vision
We aim to make the world more accepting and understanding for those with hearing loss and create a literate world for the fu
We get it.
The founder and executive director, Dr. Jacqueline Scholl, knows what it’s like to watch someone you love be marginalized.
Dr. Scholl is an audiologist and owned her own speech & hearing clinic, The Scholl Center, until 2019. She and her husband, Eric, have a biological son, Nicholas, and a daughter, Jayde, they adopted from China when she was almost 6 years old. Knowing Jayde had a hearing loss didn’t deter the Scholl’s from adopting because after all, that’s something Dr. Scholl knew well. It didn’t take long to discover Jayde had more going on than just hearing loss.
Jayde was profoundly deaf with hypoplastic eighth auditory nerves. She had never heard a sound in her almost 6 years of life and had no language - not even sign language. Dr. Scholl’s grand knowledge of hearing loss was put to the test and she learned quickly she didn’t know much at all about what it meant to be deaf.
They say that necessity is the mother of all inventions, and Dr. Scholl and her family soon understand why Jayde was placed on their star halfway around the world. Jayde’s story is one of love, joy, and perseverance. She has shown others that you can’t label or judge someone because of a diagnosis because where there has been Jayde, there have been miracles.
SoundWrx is for Jayde and everyone else who wants to beat the odds. SoundWrx is by people with hearing loss for people with hearing loss.
Whether you purchase our products, help us purchase materials, or donate to our mission - you are helping a lot of people.
What we do.
The numbers don’t lie.
Child Find numbers across the country show we’re missing a lot of kids with hearing loss.
The original plan. Soundwrx began as Dr. Scholl’s dream to help people with hearing loss find jobs that would provide them the opportunity to live to their full potential. But plans and dreams sometimes morph into something different than expected.
Kids with hearing loss are being left behind and unidentified. It’s difficult to get meaningful work if you’re unable to read well. The sad fact is that many of our deaf/hard-of-hearing (HOH) kids graduate high school with an elementary reading level usually below the third grade. While looking into intervention methods and policies, the staggering realization that many children in our public school system have not even identified with hearing loss, Dr. Scholl quickly turned the nonprofit into a “search and rescue” mission.
We find kids with hearing loss. Our mission is to find these kids who end up in other categories (ie. ADHD, behavior disordered, general learning disability, etc.) and typically end up repeating at least one grade. These kids generally have poor literacy skills and end up with speech services for years with minimal progress. Reading levels across the country are dismal and research shows if a child is still struggling and behind by the fourth grade, the chances of catching up are slim. Millions of dollars are spent every year to increase reading scores with little movement of the needle. Yet the alarming numbers of unidentified children with auditory pathway disorders are ignored. Reading is an auditory skill and without a plan to provide intervention at the problem at the core, we will continue to try and manage the symptoms.
We collaborate. We work with educators, administrators, and professionals already working in the system to provide intervention once children are identified. Decisions about protocols are based on best-practice versus what’s been the norm for the past 50 years. It takes a big village to change an antiquated system and getting everyone on board is important.
It is still our dream to be able to find jobs for a population of people who find it difficult to compete with their hearing peers. But first, they must be identified so appropriate intervention is available to give them the competitive edge they need to become literate taxpayers.
We hire models with hearing loss.
Their stories are different and as unique as they are.
Jayde
Daughter, sister, animal lover, computer hacker, swimmer & angel whisperer
Halle
Daughter, sister, friend, & jewelry connoisseur and always fashionably late