The Greater Columbia New Voice Club serves laryngectomees and their families throughout South Carolina and Georgia. With a strong emphasis on community service the club has established a community outreach program, a hospital visitation program and many members work closely with the American Cancer Society (ACS) in their outreach to school age children with regard to the dangers of smoking. Additionally members are involved in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life. The New Voice Club also provides support to those laryngectomees who do not have benefit of a speech-language pathologist or do not have the means to obtain an artificial larynx device (ALD). The club maintains a substantial loaner closet and has been able to provide some area laryngectomees with an ALD who otherwise would not have been able to obtain a device and therefore would have been unable to communicate. The club also offers limited assistance with their chosen method of speech for indigent laryngectomees. The club meets the third Thursday of each month at 7 pm.

For more information, contact Dr. Caryn Melvin.