Our Mission
The mission of Your Hearing Dog, Inc. (YHD) is to provide specially trained service dogs to the deaf and hard of hearing community as well as veterans with the same challenges. Our amazing dogs are trained hearing dogs who will alert their owners to specific sounds and situations, in essence becoming their ears. They're carefully matched with potential owners and supported for the lifetime of the match.
But we can't accomplish our mission alone. We rely on grants and donations from generous donors. To fully train ONE hearing service dog costs $20,850.
What will your gift do? It will change two lives! How?
1. It will change a deaf or hard-of-hearing person’s life by providing safety, independence, and companionship. 2. It helps train our hearing service dogs at no cost to the recipient. This training is quite expensive and every amount helps us change lives on a more robust scale.
In August 2024, YHD was awarded a grant from the Colorado Commission for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing and Deaf Blind for $10,000. You can view the award at https://ccdhhdb.colorado.gov/grants (scroll down the page to view YHD's 2025 award).
YHD was featured on KKTV News with reporter Lindsey Grewe. The title is "Colorado Couple Starts Nonprofit to Match 'Hearing Dogs' to Eligible Coloradans". Watch it NOW at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdM3M4ow_6A!
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Our Impact
3 months ago — Colorado Springs, CO USA
This Impact Story is courtesy of Kathryn Romberg. Kathy is a member of the Hearing Loss Association of America and YHD's first hearing dog recipient. <br>Hearing dog candidate, Sandy, is part way through his 14 month bootcamp. He's very smart as most standard poodles are. They also usually make wonderful hearing dogs because of this and become their owner's ears. Some dogs will wash out of the bootcamp. When this happens the dogs are found forever homes, if they don't stay with their original owner. Anyway, here's Kathy's update... "Despite all the breaks in training with illness, car wrecks, injuries, moving, and general mayhem, Sandy is moving right along in his training. He passed his Basic Training pre-test except for 3 skills I have been practicing, and failing. I am sure that in the next session, Dave (YHD's lead trainer) will be able to help me re-train them. He has learned he gets great praise for the skill settle. It is requested at dinner time or when he is just too “zoomy”. Right now, I ask him front, and he lays down. I ask him to heel, and he lays down. Anything he doesn’t understand becomes settle. Sandy has been a wonderful companion during our blizzards. He plays fetch with great attentive joy, cuddles, and makes us laugh. I am looking forward to what we will be training him to do next. Since I can’t walk well right now, we will probably start some of the hearing training. I get the most questions from people about how that works and am quite curious about how it all works myself."