Deadline: 15 September 2023
Are you a standout student or trailblazing adult with hearing loss? A heroic hearing care professional who serves them? An advocate who works to make the world a better place for people with hearing loss? Oticon wants to hear your story.
This national awards program celebrates the dreamers, the status quo challengers, and the amazing humans who refuse to be defined by outdated notions of what it means to have a hearing loss.
Now in its 25th year, the Oticon Focus on People Awards program is a beacon of inspiration, honoring the tireless efforts and outstanding achievements of individuals who make a positive difference and drive change for all people with hearing loss.
Categories
- Awards in four categories
- Student Standouts
- For children and young adults with hearing loss, ages 6–25, who are proving that nothing, especially hearing loss, can stand in their way.
- Adult Trailblazers
- For people 18 and older with hearing loss who refuse to let it define what is possible.
- Hearing Loss Champions
- For adults 25 and older, with or without hearing loss, who parent, educate, serve or support people with hearing loss and the hearing loss community.
- Heroic Hearing Care Professionals
- For hearing care practitioners, with or without hearing loss, who go “above and beyond” to open doors of opportunity and provide exceptional care to people with hearing loss.
- Student Standouts
Prize Information
- Winners in each of four categories will receive national recognition and prizes that include cash awards, donations to favorite charities, and Oticon hearing aids with BrainHearing technology.
- 1st place winners in the Student, Adult and Champion categories
- First place winners receive a $2,500 cash prize and a $1,000 donation to the charity of their choice. First place winners with hearing loss in the Student, Adult and Hearing Loss Champion categories also receive a pair of Oticon hearing aids with BrainHearing technology.
- 1st place winner in the Hearing Care Practitioner category
- Receive $2,500 cash prize and $1,000 to a charity of their choice.
- 2nd place winners
- Receive a $500 cash prize.
- 3rd place winners
- Receive a $250 cash prize.
Eligibility Criteria
- The Awards program is open to individuals with any degree of hearing loss who are: legal residents of the 50 United States or District of Columbia, age 6 or older.
- Nominees under the age of 18 years require the written approval of parent or legal guardian.
- Nominees in the Champion or Practitioner category are not required to have a hearing loss.
- Employees of Sponsor, its affiliated companies and its advertising and promotion agencies and anyone involved with the Awards program (collectively, “Awards Entities”), and their immediate family members and/or those living in the same household of each are not eligible to enter or win.
For more information, visit Oticon.
