DENVER -- Denver's 7 and ABC partnered with Extreme Makeover: Home Edition for a contest called Extreme Makeover: American Dream Edition. The contest gave away a total of $1,000,000 nationwide to help people and their local communities during the recession.

In Denver, there are five winners who each receive $5,000, and the charity of their choice also gets $5,000.

One of those winners is the Flieder family. They volunteer countless hours in the community while struggling to provide new hearing aids for 11-year-old Noah.

Whether working at the cat adoption desk, or stuffing envelopes with follow-up surveys, the Flieder family volunteers about eight hours at the Dumb Friends League every week.

"Connie and Noah have both been invaluable to our success here at the league," said Sean Lehman, the public relations director.

Connie is unable to work because of a medical condition and was recently diagnosed with two other illnesses, now requiring surgery. The Flieder family does not have the money to pay for this, or a pair of new hearing aids for Noah that will cost $4,000, in addition to supporting the other kids in the family.

An active boy scout, 11-year-old Noah has logged nearly 700 volunteer hours for various organizations. He hopes to become an Eagle Scout at 12. It's an amazing accomplishment made possible through the gift of speech.

"Dear Listen, thank you for providing the funding for speech therapy for kids like me," Noah Flieder reads from a letter written at the conclusion of six years of speech therapy at the Listen Foundation.

"He had a severe illness a high fever that damaged his hearing when he was about 19 months old," said Connie Flieder, Noah's mother.

As a result of the hearing impairment, Noah's language was not developing and he could only make grunting sounds at the onset of therapy.

According to the Listen Foundation mission statement, "Even very young infants with hearing loss can be fitted with hearing aids or a cochlear implant to give them access to sound. However, development of the child's own speech and language must be nurtured by promoting and emphasizing listening and practicing speech."

"Their brains aren't wired for sound so they have to learn the individual sounds, and once they can discriminate sound they can learn to talk," said Pay Greenway, the executive director of Listen Foundation.

Nearing its 40th anniversary, the Listen Foundation works with parents and hearing impaired children to develop language skills through auditory verbal therapy, providing scholarships for families in need.

"Well it's changed Noah's life and it certainly has been a miracle for us that we've watched him go from making vowel sounds that he couldn't chain together, to make words, to being able to speak fluently and be a leader in his community," said Connie.

And whenever possible the Flieders give back to the Listen Foundation through volunteering. Noah, now a graduate of the program, hopes to be an inspiration for other hearing impaired kids.

"So they don't have to end up with grunting sounds, and so they can talk and be successful in life," said Noah.

The Flieders plan to use the $5,000 award to purchase new hearing aids for Noah. His current hearing aids are 10 years old and emphasize background noise, making it difficult to hear conversations in loud environments.

The Listen Foundation can provide speech therapy to a child for an entire year with the $5,000 they received from ABC's 7. If you would like more information about the Listen Foundation and their upcoming 40th anniversary event, go to http://www.listenfoundation.org/.