So what’s with October, you say? I’m glad you asked. October is the SHHH National Month of Hearing Screening for 2002 and you have the option to schedule hearing screening whenever and wherever you wish and to tie up with other organizations that provide hearing screening, like the Lions, the League for the Hard of Hearing and your local hospitals and health service organization – anywhere you can spread the word about SHHH and anytime you can hand out SHHH publications to people who need to know.

All of this is free – for the people who are screened and for the audiologists – no charge to audiologists for SHHH materials and space on the Web site. So start thinking about those places where people get together – houses of worship, workplaces, your local government offices, colleges as well as malls and libraries and, hey, there’s no limit to the places you can set up information tables in October – football games, neighbor-hood yard/garage sales, fire houses where they have Halloween parades.

It’s going to be better this year.