Que President Kath Whitchurch with PECC Director Amii Marchant and Speech and Hearing teacher Michelle Jelbart.
Children learn more in the first five years of life than at any time in the future, so Parkes Que members were delighted to give the Parkes Early Childhood Education Centre a cheque for $4,000 dollars to subsidise their hearing and speech testing program.
P.E.C.C. screens all their children to make sure that any who are having problems with hearing, listening, understanding, speaking clearly and fluently receive help so that when they later go to school, they will have high self-esteem and the best chance for a good start and a happy life.
The parents of children who are having problems are contacted if it is considered that a visit to a speech pathologist or audiologist is required, and, when a specific program is devised for a child, it is followed up at the Centre.
Que members are now busy, in particular, planning the Open Gardens in October and knitting teddy bears for the ambulance while many of us are looking forward to seeing ‘Not Now Darling’ at the Little Theatre which, incidentally, was also built by volunteers many years ago.
Our Que members, who are also all volunteers, would like to thank everyone who supports us in our fund-raising efforts. It is that support that enables us to make donations like this one to P.E.C.C. that improves life for so many of us in the Parkes community.
Of course, if you would like to know more about Que you can ring Pamela Nankivell on 0407 894 498 and, if you think you might like to join Que, we welcome and value new members.