President Woodrow Wilson in Denver

Through the Years,
We've Been There to Help...

We have been providing services in Denver, Colorado since 1918. By 1946, we added speech therapy and changed our name to the Denver Hearing Society. We began offering hearing services in Colorado Springs in the early '70's.

In 1970, we formed a revenue-generating arm called Sound Solutions, marketing primarily to manufacturing businesses across the United States who must meet OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) sound level standards in the workplace. The proceeds from Sound Solutions are put back into our charitable programming to offset the costs so that the needs of low and moderate income people in Denver and Colorado Springs are met.

1918 Factoids

The only not-for-profit organization of its kind in Colorado, CHSL began as a volunteer lip-reading club in 1918 and evolved into the Denver League for the Hard of Hearing.

Woodrow Wilson was President.

A First Class Stamp Cost $0.03.

World War I came to an end.

A vast pandemic of a flu, called Spanish Influenza, claimed the lives of approximately 500,000 people.

Women came very close to receiving the right to vote. It would be another two years before that Amendment would pass.