Rothenberg Collection Dedicated at Health Sciences Library From: University Currents Date: May 26, 2000 Archive: Campus News The Jean W. Rothenberg Collection in Hearing, Deafness and Language Acquisition was dedicated at the UC Medical Center's Health Sciences Library on May 16. The collection focuses on hearing development and measurement, deafness, and issues of language and communication development in people with hearing loss. The collection began more than 40 years ago with Rothenberg's wish to provide professional books and journals for audiologists and speech pathologists at the Cincinnati Speech and Hearing Center (CSHC). Rothenberg, founder of the CSHC and recipient of a doctorate of humane letters from UC in 1994, has been a moving force behind the establishment of aural rehabilitation and audiology services for adults with hearing loss for more than a half-century. At the ceremony, Rothenberg, presented the Rothenberg Award to Gloria E. Valencia, a graduate audiology student at UC. The annual cash award recognizes an audiologist who first cares about the person with the hearing loss and then cares about the hearing loss. Valencia, currently an intern at the Cincinnati Center for Developmental Disorders, an institution affiliated with Children's Hospital Medical Center, concentrates on helping children with hearing loss. "There is nothing like the happiness and surprise that a deaf child manifests when they hear sound for the first time," says Valencia. "I've always known that I wanted to share their happiness and contribute in part to their rehabilitation." The collection, which is endowed by Rothenberg, resides in the Health Sciences Library in the same area as the Collection in Leisurely Medical Reading endowed by Rothenberg's late husband, Robert C. Rothenberg, MD.