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About CID: CID teachers of the deaf, pediatric audiologists, speech-language pathologists, early childhood specialists, occupational therapists and other professionals provide highly individualized, assessment-based programs to help children who are deaf and hard of hearing acquire speech, language and literacy skills. We prepare students to participate and succeed socially and academically in classrooms with their hearing peers, without the need for sign language. (This is sometimes known as the auditory-oral method. CID is considered an auditory-oral -- or listening and spoken language -- school.)
From September 1, 2008 through August 31, 2009, CID served 152 children who were deaf and hard of hearing (birth - age 12) in our family center and school programs plus 10 hearing children in our preschool peer and summer language programs. In addition, our pediatric audiologists served 41 children who were deaf, including children served by Medicaid and school alumni up to age 18. The total number of children served last year was 203.
CID students typically live in the St. Louis metropolitan area, southern Illinois and rural Missouri. From time to time, families move to St. Louis or live in split household situations so their children can attend. Since CID was founded in 1914, students and their families have come from 48 U.S. states and 29 countries. CID school children's countries of origin Generous private scholarship support enables CID to turn away no child with hearing loss based on a family's ability to pay.
The CID Joanne Parrish Knight Family Center, our largest program, serves children birth-3 and their families, in their homes and in nursery classes for 2-year-olds at CID. CID is a Missouri First Steps and Illinois Child and Family Connection provider.
CID also offers: training and consulting for early intervention providers and public school staff serving children who are deaf and hard of hearing; workshops for professionals in deaf education, audiology and speech-language pathology; listening device support products, and educational curricula and assessment tools used to help deaf children learn to listen and talk.
CID helps prepare future teachers of the deaf and audiologists, offering practicum experiences for local university graduate students. For example, several CID teachers and pediatric audiologists serve as faculty and guest lecturers in the Washington University School of Medicine Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences (PACS). (This program is closely affiliated with but financially independent from CID.) One CID teacher is an adjunct faculty member at Fontbonne University.
EDITOR'S NOTES:
CID was founded in 1914 by St. Louis doctor Max Goldstein, MD. CID’s mission is to teach children who are deaf and hard of hearing to listen, talk, read and succeed. We partner with families and collaborate with universities, educators and other professionals worldwide to help children communicate to achieve their fullest potential.
CID is located at 825 South Taylor Avenue, at the southern end of the Washington University Medical Center/Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis (63110).
CID is a proud member of the United Way.