Sounds of Success: Preschool and Learning Center in Aiea, HI, offers families a unique range of educational services, providing preschool, daycare, and child speech therapy programs all in one building. Due to their exceptional programs, the learning center was recently awarded a $60,000 grant to be distributed over the next three years from the Oscar and Rosetta Fish Speech Therapy and Forensics Fund at Hawaii Community Foundation.

Plans for the Grant

With this grant, Sounds of Success will offer free or subsidized child speech therapy for students at the center. The grant will provide 30-minute therapy sessions for children ages 3 to 5, twice a week. These sessions are available between Jan. 23 to Dec. 31, 2019, and families experiencing difficulty affording a child speech therapy program can apply for financial assistance. Families interested in enrolling their child need to submit a completed application form and the required documents to info@sospreschool.org by Jan. 21, 2019.  Applications submitted after Jan 21, 2019 might be put on a waitlist.

The Fish Family

Oscar and Rosetta Fish met and married in Hawaii, and they cared deeply about helping the local community. A member of the first graduating class of Hawaii’s College of Business Administration, Oscar set up a scholarship fund to aid students majoring in business before passing in 1988. As a Speech Pathologist, Rosetta shared a passion for helping students, particularly children with speech disorders. She created the Fish fund before passing in 1994, ensuring children could receive the therapy and assistance they need.

More About Sounds of Success

The learning center is a local, non-profit organization that strives to provide an immersive curriculum experience for preschool children. Their center is tidy, secured, and employs a fulltime Speech Pathologist on campus. In addition to preschool programs, their team of specialists also offers a variety of child speech therapy services, after-school programs for older children, and regular childcare. To learn more about the speech therapy grant and how to enroll your child, visit them online or call (808) 488-2211.